Carly Pearce Says Howdy

Carly Pearce talks about her cure for a sore throat, startin’ a Country Shih Tzu band with us…and being so open, honest & vulnerable with her song writing. 

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hi, it's Carly Pears. Lord, you better hide to wine. I'm
sure she's never heard that before.Never. Hello, Carly Pears. It
is so good to talk to you. Hi, so good to talk to
y'all. How is everything in yourbusy world? It's wonderful. I'm doing
great. So I have to talkfirst about Johnny in June. They're shit

(00:23):
Zuo's right, Oh, yes,they are. Well. We have a
shit zoo named Hank. So Ifeel like we need to start a little
shitsue band or something. Oh mygosh, we do Hank, I can't.
Oh, he's just like most sleepstoo. He is well lad wild.
I don't know about y'all's, butHank is so loud. He barks

(00:45):
all the time. Johnny's pretty loud. In June is feisty, so it
sounds so I need to ask someadvice. I'm losing my voice here.
I don't know if I'm hitting pubertyagain or I got some sort of crowd.
But when you have voice issues,when you have a like a secret
elect elixa some sort of concoction thatyou use. I mean, if whiskey
is a concoction, that's what Iuse. Yeah, that's what he's pell

(01:07):
sister preach owe. That was mymedicine last night. As a matter of
fact. So your new single tocountry radio is going to be truck on
Fire. What can you tell usabout that song? I am so excited.
I feel like I just really wantedto change up my kind of like
what people have heard from me overthe last few years and do something different.

(01:30):
And you know, I wrote thissong with Charles Kelly of Lady A
And I think every girl would loveto burn down the thing that the guy
who hurt them loves the most.See this way, we all have one
or two that I love country music. That's that you can tell the story.
That's what I love about it.Yeah, as a as a songwriter,
you you share a lot of yourselfand you lay it all out there

(01:53):
and maybe maybe tell some things thatyou normally wouldn't tell. Somebody's like an
outland. That's your art. Youget a chance to get it out there.
Have you ever had a moment though, when somebody comes to you about
something and says, hey, Icould relate to this, and you're like,
oh my god, how do youknow that? But then you realize,
well, I put it out thereis that, like, is it
a weird moment for you or isthat just part of it? I think

(02:14):
it's part of it. I thinkI was really blown away by how many
people have experienced divorce. I thinkthat was something that was really eye opening
to me when I was willing toshare. And I also was amazed at
how many people got divorces after Iput out The twenty nine Writers. So
I don't know if that's a goodthing or a bad thing. Well,

(02:36):
I think the fact you give peoplestrength and you know, the willpower and
maybe open up their minds. That'sand you're open and honest. A lot
of people, you know, tryto hide those moments because of the vulnerability
of it all. But you've alwaysbeen open and honest, and I think
that's why people connect with you somuch. Well, I feel like it's
my duty as a songwriter to usemy platform for good, you know.

(03:00):
I think I obviously was not reallyproud of some of the things that have
happened to me, but I thinkI've become proud of them because it's it's
attached a faith to something that Ithink my generation and young people, especially
in the South, shy away fromthe amen, like divorce, you know,
so yeah, all things. Itmakes sense to me why Loretta Lane

(03:23):
wrote about her crazy life. It'sgood therapy and you do it so well.
Thank you. Thank you so muchfor sharing your life, being so
open and so honest and so strong. I think such a great role model
for a lot of ladies and mentoo. Well. Thank you. I
really appreciate that. Whenever you wantto get that shit to band started,
you just give us a call backoff written songs. Girl, We gotta

(03:45):
get it going, Carly, Piers, everybody, thank you. Thank you
so much for the time. Wereally appreciate it. Thank you.