NEW ALBUM: CARLY PEARCE | 29

Country music superstar Carly Pearce returns with a new album in the EP titled ’29’. She became enamoured of composers who, while not exactly household names, penned some of the most enduring hits of the era for Martina McBride, Patty Loveless, and Faith Hill. Pearce’s new EP 29 feels like an homage to country music’s songwriting giants and the radio-friendly art that characterized the Nineties country boom. With seven songs all co-written by Pearce, 29 chronicles a period of personal struggle for the “I Hope You’re Happy Now” singer that included the death of her producer Busbee and her divorce from fellow country singer Michael Ray after less than one year of marriage.