CURRENT SINGLE: “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” w/ Ashley McBryde
When Carly Pearce was planning the visuals to go along with her latest album, 29: Written in Stone, it was important to her that she return to her native Kentucky for the photos, because she says, “Kentucky has meant so much to me for my entire life. It’s where I first found country music. It is where my grandparents raised me and I understood what it meant to be a lady.”
Even though Carly now calls Nashville home, she feels a kinship with her fewllow Kentuckians like “The Judds and Patty (Loveless) and Loretta (Lynn) and Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe, and all of these pioneers of the genre that I love so much,” says Carly, “they all came from here. And I feel like we all have a common thread of, there’s a texture of mountain singing to all of us.”
After losing her one and only producer, busbee, to brain cancer, Carly says, “I felt like I went back to my roots musically, and in my heart went back to my roots, and visually I wanted this project to encapsulate truly going back to my roots, to the place where I found country music.”
Carly Pearce – Kentucky roots :47
“Kentucky has meant so much to me for my entire life. It’s where I first found country music. It is where my grandparents raised me and I understood what it meant to be a lady. And the music of Kentucky, people like the Judds and Patty and Loretta and Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe, and all of these pioneers of the genre that I love so much, they all came from here. And I feel like we all have a common thread of, there’s a texture of mountain singing to all of us. And when I went on this discovery after losing busbee, I felt like I went back to my roots musically, and in my heart went back to my roots, and visually I wanted this project to encapsulate truly going back to my roots, to the place where I found country music.”