Austin singer/songwriter, performance artist, JO CAROL PIERCE

Austin singer/songwriter, performance artist, JO CAROL PIERCE. She won the "Songwriter of the Year" award at the 1993 Austin Music Awards. A tribute album of her songs performed by other singers, "Across the Great Divide," won the Album of the Year Award. She's originally from Lubbock, Texas — where it seems anybody who wants to be somebody in the Texas music scene must be from. She's little known outside Texas, but has a cult following in Austin. PIERCE'S songs are quirky, and spiritual. Her song, "I Blame God," has been called, "a slice of metaphysical slapstick with the dark humor of a honky-tonk Dostoevski." PIERCE also wrote and performed the one-woman show, ""Bad Girls Upset About the Truth," told in story and song about her problems with men and Jesus.