When Carly Pearce first heard her latest single, “Hide the Wine,” it was love at first listen, but there’s was only one problem … the song wasn’t available for her to record. Carly’s producer wanted her to hear her song, co-written by Hillary Lindsey, Ashley Gorley and Luke Laird, and as soon as she heard it she says, “It started and it had immediately this beat that reminded me of the bluegrass music that I grew up on and that I grew up singing. And [Hillary Lindsey] started in and she sang and at the end of the song I looked at him and I was like, ‘I have to have this song.’ And he said, ‘I’m so sorry, it’s on hold for another artist.’ And I looked at him and I was like, ‘Why did you play me this song if I can’t have it?!’”
But Carly never gave up on the song. She kept tabs on it to find out if the other artist recorded it, and when they didn’t she immediately grabbed it and made it the first track on her debut album. Carly says, “I think that I wanted to start the album with it just because it’s so fun. Everybody knows I love red wine and it starts kind of my journey of singing bluegrass and the way that the harmonies fit and the way the melody goes and just the instrumentation I feel like it’s just a feel good opener of, here we go, we’re going to have a party on this album.”
Carly Pearce – Hide the Wine 1:17
“’Hide the Wine,’ that has a really interesting story because about a year and a half ago my publisher, Daniel, said, ‘Hey, I want you to hear this song.’ So he played me this song and I’m a huge Hillary Lindsey fan. She’s an amazing songwriter an amazing singer and so it started and it had immediately this beat that reminded me of the bluegrass music that I grew up on and that I grew up singing. And she started in and she sang and at the end of the song I looked at him and I was like, ‘I have to have this song.’ And he said, ‘I’m so sorry, it’s on hold for another artist.’ And I looked at him and I was like, ‘Why did you play me this song if I can’t have it?!’ And so over the next year the song was going to be recorded by another artist and we kept tabs on it and I didn’t have a record deal but I was still like, ‘Oh my gosh, that song,’ and I couldn’t get out of my head. And fast forward to right when I got a record deal. They ended up not putting it on their album and I immediately was like I have to have this song. And I think that I wanted to start the album with it just because it’s so fun. Everybody knows I love red wine and it starts kind of my journey of singing bluegrass and the way that the harmonies fit and the way the melody goes and just the instrumentation I feel like it’s just a feel good opener of, here we go, we’re going to have a party on this album.”