{"id":18046,"date":"2023-12-04T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2023-12-04T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T07:09:00","slug":"carly-pearce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/carly-pearce\/","title":{"rendered":"CARLY PEARCE<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CARLY PEARCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIVE PERFORMANCE RECORDED<\/strong> of studio album<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cillia Houghton, in a recent article in American Songwriter, said of Carly Pearce (left) <\/em><\/strong>that she captures the heart of her transformative album 29:Written in Stone <\/em>on her first live album 29: Written In Stone (Live From Music City)<\/em>, available now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With special appearances by \u201cNever Wanted to Be That Girl\u201d duet partner Ashley McBryde, Lee Brice on their hit duet \u201cI Hope You\u2019re Happy Now,\u201d multi-CMA Musician of the Year winner Jenee Fleenor (right)<\/em><\/strong> playing fiddle on the title track and more, Live From Music City<\/em> puts a period at the end of her 29 <\/em>journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pearce chatted with American Songwriter about what it was like to capture this show at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, teases what to expect from her new music, what Blake Shelton has taught her about performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the start of the conversation Carly Pearce explained what had inspired her to record this album live in Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always been a live album fan. A lot of my favorite records were live albums and I think that I always knew I wanted to do one, I just wasn\u2019t quite sure when or how. But I think when I wrote this record, I knew that the storytelling and the musicality of it was different than anything I\u2019d ever done, and when we got out on the road on the 29 Tour, it just really felt like I had locked in on what I really wanted to do and how I wanted my shows to look like and how I wanted people to feel and all of those types of things. We really felt that was such a special, cute little moment in my career and we wanted to capture that, and what better place than Nashville?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do feel like it\u2019s captured in the record. It\u2019s so interesting because I feel like in country music especially, I\u2019m on an arena tour right now and I\u2019ve been on stadium tours, and a lot of my peers have fire and tons of stuff and lots of backgrounds and a ton of props. I think obviously that works well for a certain type of music, but for me, that was never what I saw. I saw more of exactly what the 29 Tour looked like, more of that intimate setting where I\u2019m sharing my music on a very intimate level even if there\u2019s thousands of people there. So I feel<\/em> like when we got out of the 29 Tour, I remember walking into the theater on our first date and just being like, \u201cOh my god, this is what I wanted to do.\u201d If I would have made an album like my first two records, I don\u2019t think I would have ever discovered that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We played the show just like the record in chronological order of how it occurred in my life. I never intended to write a concept album but it just kind of happened because I was writing this story in real-time of it happening to me. So we really wanted to preserve that, so it is in real-time and we literally did on the live record exactly how the 29 Tour went, from the musical breaks to the banter in between to the acoustic set to having the special guests [that are on the record], which was fun. If you weren\u2019t able to see one of the 29 shows, you\u2019re going to get it on this record.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think even though I wrote this album about a divorce, I feel like the universal thought of the album is people go through hard things and it\u2019s all about how you deal with that. I have heard night after night people tell me that they have left abusive relationships, they decided to leave the relationship even though they were scared, they decided to get a divorce even though they\u2019re young and felt like they had failed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have made them feel like they\u2019re not alone. I\u2019ve made them feel like they\u2019re going to get through it. They\u2019ve watched my story and watched me get through it, so now they feel the strength to do it. It\u2019s just the most fulfilling piece of music that I\u2019ve ever created and it came from the worst two years of my life. It\u2019s just interesting to have that full-circle momento<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before 29<\/em>, I thought I was writing from an honest place, and I think I was, but I think I had not tapped into the depths of my vulnerability and my honesty. What this album did is it allowed me to not try to write for the radio. I actually didn\u2019t even know if this album was going to come out. I was just kind of like, \u201cI need to write this.\u201d It certainly didn\u2019t sound like a hit record to me. It was so personal that it kind of freaked me out. But to see what it has done on a commercial<\/em> and a critically acclaimed level is exactly what I always hoped that I could find in music. I always wanted to be a commercial country artist, but I never wanted to lose the integrity of real song-writing and real musicality and I feel like I found that through this record.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cillea Houghton led her interviewee to speak about what new music she is now working on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will tell you that the Live album is coming out, [current No. 1 single] \u201cWhat He Didn\u2019t Do\u201d is near the end of its life, so you\u2019re going to get music sooner than you think. I think that a lot of people are going to assume that because I\u2019m not going through a divorce and I\u2019m quite happy that I\u2019m going to be coming out with some fluffy love song, but that\u2019s not what Carly Pearce does, so stay tuned. It\u2019s literally the most proud I\u2019ve ever been of a track. I\u2019m really excited, I think it\u2019s going to be unexpected in several different ways.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist also asked what it was like  being on the road with Blake Shelton\u2019s Back to the Honky Tonk Tour?  She wondered, too,  what Carly has learned being on the road with Blake and how she applies that learning to her own show,  to your own show?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love Blake (right)<\/strong> . He  is such a great person, a great singer, a great showman, a great personality. He\u2019s just really been somebody that over the years has been really good to me and I\u2019ve really just tried to study how nobody is like Blake Shelton. I feel really lucky to get to be out there and the arenas are really fun. It\u2019s a good challenge for me to still maintain my creative integrity while still running up and down a stage and doing those types of things. So I\u2019ve really enjoyed being on tour with him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Blake doesn\u2019t try to chase anybody else. I think Blake is Blake unapologetically. People come to see Blake talk as much as they come to hear him sing, and nobody else I feel like is that. If you view me against the other females in country music, people are coming to hear me share my stories. I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s really the way that everybody else does things. I think just continuing to really carve out your narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s really shown me how to just unapologetically be yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will tell you that the\u00a0Live\u00a0album is coming out, [current No. 1 single] \u201cWhat He Didn\u2019t Do\u201d is near the end of its life, so you\u2019re going to get music sooner than you think. I think that a lot of people are going to assume that because I\u2019m not going through a divorce and I\u2019m quite happy that I\u2019m going to be coming out with some fluffy love song, but that\u2019s not what Carly Pearce does, so stay tuned. It\u2019s literally the most proud I\u2019ve ever been of a track. I\u2019m really excited, I think it\u2019s going to be unexpected in several different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-performing-arts","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18113,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions\/18113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}