Larry Pierce(II)
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Hilariously crude, rude, and raunchy dirty country music singer and
songwriter Larry G. Pierce was born on July 18, 1950 in Indiana. Larry
lived most of his life in the small rural hamlet of Middletown in
Central Indiana. He worked for over thirty years at Guide Corporation,
which is an auto factory for General Motors. He was forced into
retirement after said auto plant closed. Pierce used to play guitar and
entertain friends over the weekend and wrote his first filthy country
song "Love Letters" as kind of a joke. In 1993 someone submitted
Larry's music to Laughing Hyena Entertainment, a music label that
specializes in truck stop comedy and distributes albums almost
exclusively to truck stops all over America. Pierce recorded thirteen
albums in ten years for this label. He soon amassed a loyal and sizable
fan following despite the fact that he had never toured the country
doing any live concerts and his songs failed to receive any airplay on
the radio. Larry was the subject of the documentary "Dirty Country" in
2003 (this documentary was completed and released in 2007). In 2005 Pierce did a live show with the equally sleazy Colorado
Springs rock band -itis in Minneapolis; he subsequently toured the country
and performed additional delightfully raucous live shows with this
uproariously rowdy and uninhibited group. Larry released his fourteenth
album on his private label Hat Light Recordings in 2007.
Moreover, Pierce appeared as a guest a few times on "The Howard
Stern Show." He released his fifteenth album in 2009. Larry died at age 68 on November 19, 2018. He was survived by his wife Sandy and three children.