Pierson brings his style to the music business
Chris Pierson decided to take a year off from his education to add his own twist to the music industry.
His first album “Out of the Blue” will be released Dec. 15. Pierson will spend the beginning of 2003 touring colleges in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. His ultimate goal is to be recruited by a recording company.
“I’m concentrating on touring and establishing a fan base, so I can show a record company, ‘look, I’ve already got what you want,’” he said. “So that all I have to do is sign a piece of paper for a record deal. It’s a lot easier said than done. I plan on recording a lot of other albums. This album is just a stepping stone.”
Pierson was born in Baton Rouge, La. and moved to Georgia at age seven. He grew up in Athens and has attended Georgia College & State University for three years, pursuing a marketing major. He played outfield for GC&SU’s baseball team.
Pierson started playing the acoustic guitar at age eight; however, he only began to really focus on it at age 13.
“The acoustic guitar helped me to channel a lot of things from the heart. I guess the main person who got me through troublesome times would be John Mayer. I have my own ideas as an artist, but I write similar to his style. I think that goes for a lot of people who are struggling and play the guitar,” he said. “Critics say that there are a million of us out there trying to do the same thing that I’m doing, but not everyone can write and record, and those are the people that eventually make it in the business. I think everybody that plays and wants to make it has to find someone to draw from. You need to find someone’s style to analyze and come up with your own. I guess to classify my style it is ‘Mayeresque’ with a Chris Pierson twist.”
Pierson began writings song for his album last October.
“For me to keep writing, it was like therapy to help me get through things. I would play them out and get a good response on them, so I kept writing and decided to record the album,” he said. “The people that heard those songs have probably gotten through those problems by now. Everybody on any given day is going through the same type of problems. They just want to hear that someone is feeling the same way. They need to hear ‘it’s going to be okay.’ A lot of them are directed from my heart.”
His first album features 10 songs.
“I classify most of my songs as ‘emotional thinkers,’ just because most of the people our age are kind of going through the same things. I approach some of the songs like a director of a drama movie,” he said.
“I think all of us especially our age go through similar feelings while growing up. It just takes you through a brief walk in my life, and I try to relate that to them to have an impact. As a songwriter, we can say things other people can’t.”
Pierson formulated his album to reach listeners and help them though their day-to-day issues.
“This is an album I want people to feel that they’ve got somebody else out there that feels the same way they do. That is the main reason I started playing music the way I do. That type of music helped me at this point in my life to get through particular situations,” he said. “I just want it to have the same impact on other people. Some of those songs had the biggest impact on my life. Some of them are more heartfelt.”
A sample of his music is played on Z97 on Sunday nights beginning around 8.
“The more requests for this new single I get, gives it a chance to be on regular rotation. The single is ‘You Have to Know,’” he said. “It can be about a girl wanting a guy or a guy wanting a girl. It was written to help the frustration of dating. I wrote what I felt, and it can to be this song.”
For more information, visit www.chrispierson.com.
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on Oct 11 2002. Filed under Other.
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