Stuart Pearson

Stuart Pearson is releasing “Dark Americana: Stories and Songs” through Hollywood Trax and Manhattan Production Music. This collection blends the American Mythos of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper into something dark and foreboding. It’s full of dreamy tremelo guitar, banjo, dulcimer and fiddle. Clanging metal and footstomps frame his ominous baritone in a blend of country-folk, film noir ballads, bluegrass and psychedelia. A rusty, creeping sound; haunted and haunting.

A BRIEF HISTORY:
Stuart has been an active performer / composer in Los Angeles. His band "Through the Woods" was voted Band of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters in 1995. Using 19 instruments onstage, what they played would now be considered Dark Americana.

Stuart became the composer of incidental music for the Disney Stores for several years. He recorded a cell phone orchestra performing "Ode to Joy" for an early viral video for T-Mobile. Stuart has composed songs for Mariah Carey's "A Christmas Melody," as well as for "The Dr. Ken Show" and "Beverly Hills 90210".
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Stuart performed on the Taste of Chaos and Warped Tours using a wind-up monkey banging a cymbal, a Slinky, a toy piano, hurdy gurdy, accordion and various toys to perform hip hop and heavy metal songs.

With "Dark Americana: Stories and Songs," Stuart returns to his darker side, playing music with roots that span a century.

For more information, go to www.stuartpearsonmusic.com