Carly Pearce has already done so much in country music, but there is still a lot more that she wants to do. The Grand Ole Opry member looks to her own musical heroes as she approaches 2025 with a new resolve to continue to make great country music.
“People like my heroes that continue to raise the bar and want to continue to reinvent themselves and just keep getting better,” Pearce says of her inspiration. “I think I’m just getting started and I really do want to make sure that I’m putting out music that continues to inspire others but also just inspires me as a songwriter.”
By her own admission, Pearce was a massive country music fan before she became an established artist, ever since her debut single, “Every Little Thing,” hit No. 1 in 2017. Now, she is helping inspire and mentor an entirely new generation of country music artists, even as she continues to look to her predecessors for guidance and inspiration.
“That in itself is wild because I know that there were girls for me, even when I moved to Nashville, that I was so struck by wanting so badly to get to a place where I was like them,” the 34-year-old reflects. “And now I have girls that are maybe on radio tour or on their first single that say that I inspire them, and you’re just like, ‘Huh?’”
With numerous hit singles, plenty of awards and and headlining tours, Pearce is so grateful for the way she has been able to give back to others, celebrating being on the giving end instead of receiving at this point in her career.
“I’ve been so blessed to be able to call this my job, and to be able to have a voice and have a platform that is able to make any sort of impact,” says the singer. “And I think as my career grows and as I continue to do this, I hope to get more involved and really dive into giving back even more.”
Pearce currently has a Top 35 single with “Truck on Fire,” the second single from her hummingbird album, released last year.
“I wrote this with Charles Kelley of Lady A and Justin Ebach, and it was so fun,” Pearce says on Apple Music Country’s Today’s Country Radio. “I feel like sad songs and sass have always been two things that I’ve really gravitated towards and I got to really let loose on this album with that. I really wanted to write something that just gave girls an anthem to just feel powerful. And don’t we all have all these crazy dreams in our head of burning down the thing that said human that hurt us loves the most?”
Pearce will headline her overseas Hummingbird Tour, beginning next month. Find all of her music and upcoming shows at CarlyPearce.com.
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