''Carly Pearce'' is the self-titled second studio album by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

artist

Carly Pearce Carly Pearce (born Carly Cristyne Slusser; April 24, 1990) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her material contains elements of both traditional and contemporary country-pop music. Pearce began performing professionally in her ...

. The album was released on February 14, 2020.

Commercial performance

''Carly Pearce'' debuted at No. 6 on Top Country Albums, with 4,900 copies sold the first week. As of March 2020, the album has sold 6,800 copies, and 83,000 in units consumed.

Singles

The album's lead single, "Closer to You" was released on November 2, 2018. " I Hope You're Happy Now", a duet with fellow country singer

Lee Brice Kenneth Mobley Brice Jr. (born June 10, 1979), known professionally as Lee Brice, is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Curb Records. Brice has released five albums with the label: ''Love Like Crazy'', ''Hard 2 Love (Lee B ...

, was released as Pearce's second single from the album on September 27, 2019.

Promotional singles

Four promotional singles were issued prior to the album's release. "It Won't Always Be Like This" was released on December 6, 2019 along with the announcement of her album title and tracklist, followed by "Call Me," "Heart's Going Out of Its Mind," and "You Kissed Me First" in January 2020.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. *

- duet vocals (track 3) *

busbee Michael James Ryan Busbee (June 18, 1976 – September 29, 2019), known professionally as Busbee, was an American songwriter, record producer, publisher, record executive, and multi-instrumentalist. He was known for his work in both pop mus ...

Hammond B-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created from rotat ...

(track 2), programming (tracks 1, 2), background vocals (track 7) * Dave Cohen - keyboards (tracks 8-11) *Ian Fitchuk - Hammond B-3 organ (track 1), keyboards (tracks 3-7, 12, 13),

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(tracks 1, 2),

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

(track 6) *

Jesse Frasure Jesse Vernon Frasure (born September 18, 1981), also known as DJ Telemitry, is an American music publisher, record producer, songwriter, and DJ. He has written 22 number one songs and has cuts with various artists including Chris Stapleton, M ...

- programming (track 7) *Mark Hill -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

(all tracks) *Trey Keller - background vocals (track 10) *

Hillary Lindsey Hillary Lee Lindsey (born August 11, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has written songs with or for a number of artists including Michelle Branch, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Shakira, Lady A, Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Carrie Unde ...

- background vocals (tracks 1, 13) *Josh Matheny -

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

(all tracks),

steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4-6) *Jerry McPherson -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

(tracks 8-11) *

- lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 6, 7) * Michael Ray - duet vocals (track 7) *Jordan Reynolds - background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 8, 12) *Jerry Roe -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(tracks 8-11) * Gordie Sampson - programming (tracks 1, 12) *Savana Santos - background vocals (track 9) *

Aaron Sterling Aaron Sterling (born July 9, 1980) is an American drummer, producer, engineer, and session musician who lives in Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee. The son of professional musicians, Sterling grew up in Texas and Nashville, before moving to L ...

- drums (tracks 1-7, 12, 13),

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4-7) *Russell Terrell - background vocals (tracks 1, 12) *

Ilya Toshinsky Bering Strait was a Russian country music band, whose style was sometimes called "redgrass". In 2003, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award and appeared on the TV show ''60 Minutes''. The group disbanded in 2006. The lineup on their first al ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(all tracks),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(tracks 4, 6),

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 12) *Mark Trussell - electric guitar (tracks 2, 13) *Alison Veltz - background vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5) *Laura Veltz - background vocals (tracks 5, 6, 11) *Derek Wells - electric guitar (tracks 1-7, 12, 13) *Ben West - keyboards (track 13), programming (track 13), synthesizer (track 6)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 2020 albums Carly Pearce albums Big Machine Records albums Albums produced by busbee