CURRENT SINGLE: “Next Girl”
Prior to her brand new collection of music, Carly Pearce had only worked on music with her late producer, busbee. Sadly, after his passing in September 2019, Carly had to face the emotional decision of finding a new producer to work with, which is how she found Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, who not only produced her new 90’s country-inspired collection, 29, but also wrote several of the songs with Carly for the project.
Carly will always be proud of and deeply grateful for the music she made with busbee, but she says, “It’s interesting because I always thought it was such a positive thing that busbee and I came from different worlds. He came from a jazz background, California, pop music, and I obviously came from bluegrass, Kentucky, 90s country. And I think what I didn’t realize until meeting Shane and Josh was that there could be and even deeper level to my music.”
When you listen to the songs on 29, you can hear the influences of women like The Judds, Patty Loveless, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Lee Ann Womack. Carly says she and Shane and Josh were able to go there with her songs because, “They know those records inside and out, and when I told them that that was where I wanted to go with this new music, it was almost like this light just went off in both of them. And they were like, ‘We’ve been waiting to be able to find a female artist that we could do this with.’”
Carly says while making 29, “I just felt understood in a way I don’t really know how to explain. And I don’t think you could really do that unless you really got into that music the way that we did.”
29 features Carly’s latest single, “Next Girl,” and is available now wherever you stream or download music.
Carly Pearce – Shane and Josh. 1:02
“You know, it’s interesting because I always thought it was such a positive thing that Busby and I came from different worlds. He came from a jazz background, California, pop music. And I obviously came from bluegrass, Kentucky, 90s country. And I think what I didn’t realize until meeting Shane and Josh was that there could be and even deeper level to my music, and really be able to go there because they grew up in Nashville, writing songs, listening to and loving the kind of music that I grew up on – The Judds, Patty Loveless, Dolly, Loretta, Lee Ann Womack. They know those records inside and out, and when I told them that that was where I wanted to go with this new music, it was almost like this light just went off in both of them. And they were like, ‘We’ve been waiting to be able to find a female artist that we could do this with.’ Shane’s all-time favorite female artist is Lee Ann Womack. And I just felt understood in a way I don’t really know how to explain. And I don’t think you could really do that unless you really got into that music the way that we did.”