Carly Pearce joins Kelleigh Bannen for an interview on Today’s Country Radio to talk about her new album ’29: Written in Stone.’ Carly shares how her collaboration with Ashley McBryde on “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” challenges the assumption that women in country need to be in competition with one another. Tune in and listen to the interview with Carly Pearce in-full this Friday (Sept. 17) at 5am LA / 7am Nashville / 8am NYC or anytime on-demand here.
Carly Pearce on collaborating with Ashley McBryde
We’ve had a lot of people assume we don’t like each other for no reason other than I think we’re two women kind of “competing for the same things.” I think that was kind of what I was the most excited about was just getting in a room with somebody that I know respects me. I respect her and let’s just see what happens. There wasn’t really any expectation, but I just had that feeling like I knew. I think that what’s so powerful about it is two girls coming together, that we laid our ego down to write something together and that can happen, and I wish that it happened more. I mean, this is the first female female duet that I’ve seen since Carrie and Miranda’s “Somethin’ Bad.”
Carly Pearce on her uncomfortable CMA press roundup
Last year during the CMA nominations, they’d all just come out and I was backstage at the Opry and Luke [Combs] was backstage at the Opry and we were all doing these interviews together, for press and everything, and Gabby Barrett and Ingrid Andress were there and they put us all in different rooms to do Zooms.This particular interviewer did a separate interview with Luke, but he roped Gabby, Ashley [McBryde], myself and Ingrid, all in one interview and then asked us, “Why don’t you think women work on radio?” And I said, “If you guys stop roping us as one person and doing these cattle call interviews and look at us as individuals, maybe it would go away.”
