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Thomas Scott Pearce's music  has been described as melodic and lyrical...poetic. His songs are very visual. He likes for the listener to feel as though he/she just watched a video. His early influences were Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Flatt and Scruggs...of course Scott was probably influenced by a local string of  musicians as much as anybody else though, people who never went to Nashville but should have....

Scott has won a number of awards, including the North Carolina Songwriter Fellowship Grant and was the Grand Prize winner in the Austin Songwriters Group Song Contest for "Mabel Gray" ("The Day The Black Rain Fell" and "Suffer The Child" also placed high in their categories.)

He likes John Prine, John Hiatt and Willie Nelson. He also writes and publishes poems and short stories. In that vein, he enjoys Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas and Falkner.

Diversity is an understatement when it comes to the jobs Scott has experienced -- tobacco farmer, park ranger, prison guard, motel manager, newspaper writer, carpenter, landscaper, public weighmaster, warehouse labor foreman, honky-tonk musician, and tree-planter for the forestry service. Currently he is a registered Nurse on a psychiatric unit.

Scott's goal for this year is to adopt at least one child. His ultimate fantasy is to make so much money that he can adopt at least twenty or so. But he leaves that up to the  Good Lord.