carly pearce

Carly Pearce has become a major country artist, with two chart-topping singles and more than a billion collective streams across the major streamers, but she isn’t about to start presenting herself as some glamorous star. “I’m really, really not trying to make you think I’m perfect,” she tells SPIN over the phone from her Nashville home. “I am just very unapologetically myself. I don’t think I know how to not be honest. I have to tell the whole truth in my lyrics to be able to really stand behind them. I have to really feel it.” Pearce proved this with 29, the EP she released in February, which chronicles an exceptionally eventful year of her life during which she lost her longtime producer busbee to cancer, and then she married (and, eight months later, divorced) fellow country artist Mic...