The Pierces are the closest thing to a music fairy tale story as you’ll get. The sisters were born in Alabama, the perfect setting for laying the foundations of a folk/alt. country female duo. Typically, the girls were raised by their hippie, nomadic parents constantly being whisked away and home schooled, dad playing in all kinds of bands and mum painting was always going to encourage the creativity within Catherine and Allison. What an idyllic way to bring up your children, it sounds very rosy and sugar coated doesn’t it? But early days in their music career does not sound quite as lovely, The Pierces have been together as a duo for a long time, in fact releasing their first record back in 2000. It would seem there has been nothing but hard work and striving for success from Catherine and Allison, taking them 4 albums and over 10 years to receive the accolades that they undoubtedly deserve.

There certainly seems to be a string of artists doing very well with their ‘old time’ sounding voices, Nathaniel Rateliff, Mumford’s and Adele to name just a few, in amongst these are The Pierces who are definitely rocking up to the party fashionably late and cranking up the volume. ‘You & I’, the latest edition from the duo has hit gold in the U.K and rightly so drowned with it’s classic early 70’s folk, country extravaganza. Is this another U.S artist that has now found their home across the pond?

Tapping into the touring and media schedule of these girls isn’t an easy feat at all but younger Pierce, Catherine gave us some time to answer a few questions.