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Garrett Pierce - Get Me Out Of This Place - Dusk

Enough:
I live part-time in San Francisco and walk through the heart of the Tenderloin area weekly.  Back when I lived full-time in SF, I sadly put my blinders on regarding the troubling mental health and homelessness throughout the city...but now I do my best to embrace these issues head-on.
This song explores the problems people face in the Tenderloin through a first-person account.  

I grew up with a mother with mental health and drug problems, and I was nearly homeless myself during my senior year of high school, so I've channeled my experiences to paint a picture of life on the streets.  

We recorded around forty tracks of instrumentation (with multiple tracks of keyboards and guitars) to make this song the most lush on the album.

Garrett Pierce - Enough

These Wounds:
This is one of my most stripped-down songs on the record.  It's pure nostalgia about my high-school years growing up and falling in love during the hot, arid LA summers, and the subsequent broken hearts that followed. 
It's all of those painful, beautiful memories wrapped into one statement "These Wounds keep on opening and I don't mind".

"These Wounds" was recorded like with just two microphones in my home studio.

Garrett Pierce - These Wounds

The first single from the upcoming Garrett Pierce record, 'Dusk' in collaboration with Crossbill Records available April  14, 2017.

"Distant Thought is a thank you card.  If you examine my four albums, you rarely find an optimistic tone, but Distant Thought is my homage to the healing nature of Sonoma Coast's Redwood Forests, where I frequently spend my downtime.   Though I spend a great deal of time in San Francisco, I've been drawn further and further out toward the deep Sonoma Coast."

Dusk

Garrett Pierce - Distant Thought - Dusk

Thanks to Timothy James Wright for this epic remix and added instrumentation to 'One Last Breath'

One Last Breath REMIX (Timothy James Wright)

The Silent Killer

The Silent Killer is creeping up outside your door
The Silent Killer doesn’t listen anymore
You feel the winter flowing up and down your bones
In perfect weather the killer always brings the storm

The Silent Killer will enter through your radio
The Silent Killer will make you think you’ve been followed
Won’t know what hit you until you see the red shadow
It’s your last dinner, the killer gets your hat and coat

The Silent Killer has emptied out the city streets
The Silent Killer is echoing below your feet
You hear a whisper and turn but nothing’s there to greet
You hear a whimper of someone trying to get some sleep

Long live the blood red lightning
Come from above and strike me
Feet on the ground, but slightly
Fear proved to be this blinding

The Silent Killer is prancing down the avenue
The Silent Killer has always known just what you’ll do
So please consider that it has always been in you
A silent trigger to pull when you know what to do
So pull the trigger, you’ve always know just what to do
Don’t sit and whither, just shoot before it gets to you
You’ll feel better, just shoot before you see the truth
The Silent Killer stares back inside the mirror at you

Long live the blood red lightning
Come from above and strike me
Feet on the ground, but slightly
Fear proved to be this blinding

2020 Demos

Dusk is a collection of stories that span a lifetime.  
It’s a travelogue from my younger years - nostalgic episodes of seasick fishing boats, suffocating poverty, and first loves.  It’s a road trip soundtrack from the desert to the coastal forests, stopping at every shitty Greyhound bus station along the way.  It’s the purples and grays that conclude another day; another phase of my life.

Dusk is my fourth LP, and by far the most realized.
In the Spring of 2016 I built a studio at the back of my house in Sonoma, CA (with the help of engineer Eric Ruud) and over the next six months, played and recorded the album on my own.
As the record found it’s final form, long-time collaborators Timothy James Wright and Payam Bavafa added instrumentation to select tracks.

My songs have always been stark and lyric-based, but Dusk is more expansive with rich organs and pianos to go along with the guitars.  

When asked about my influences I’ve always been more apt to cite Richard Brautigan, John Steinbeck or Ernest Hemingway than a contemporary songwriter.  But more recently, I’ve looked back on musicians who were able to combine poignant, dark lyrical content with a melodic backbone like Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, and Joni Mitchell.

The album has a story arch which benefits from unbroken listening .  The first song begins in the crisp dawn air, and ends with me packing my bags at Dusk.  
In a strange way it feels like a bookend and a beginning at the same time - the way the sunset brings the night, yet the darkness is oftentimes the most exciting part of the day.

GP - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano/Organ, Drums 
Timothy James Wright - Banjo, Drums (Distant Thought); Lap Steel, Guitars, Organ (Enough); Piano, Organ (One Last Breath)
Payam Bavafa - Guitars (Greyhound Song).
