Michael Dean Pierce

Michael Dean Pierce is a honky-tonk singer, songwriter, and storyteller based in Tomball, Texas. An Oklahoma native, he settled in Old Town Tomball, where he also runs the Cloud Chief and Co. antiques shop on Main Street. He grew up around the music: his grandmother Billie owned a honky tonk of her own.

Unable to find a room in town that would book his original music, Pierce built his own. He raised a small green barn in Old Town Tomball and opened The Little HonkyTonk, billed as the smallest honky tonk in Texas, where he performs about once a month and hand-draws his own show posters. He calls his style the "Tomball Sound," a gritty, rootsy blend of honky-tonk, blues, and storytelling, and has spoken about growing the area into Tomball's own version of Luckenbach.

His recorded catalog leans on that same hometown spirit, including the album "Gold or Dirt" and the live EP "Live at the Little HonkyTonk in Tomball Texas." His song "Los Coocos" tells the story of the Los Cucos Mexican Cafe on Tomball Parkway, a longtime local hangout that burned in an August 2023 fire.