Stuart Pearson

I’m originally from Long Island and I have been writing songs since I was seven, when there was little life experience to inform my material, other than dealing with childhood epilepsy and maybe Bugs Bunny. I would watch my father play our family upright piano and it hit something in me that said “you can do that too”. So I poked, single-fingered on the piano and found my first primitive melody. We would spend summers on my grandfather’s farm in Wisconsin, where I would feed chickens, get chased by cows and listen to the curious music the 1960’s midwest would listen to; Johnny Cash, Bobby Gentry, Charlie Rich. Music that sounded rusty and full of weeds. As much as I liked playing in the corn field, I was always impatient to get back to that piano.