Carly Pearce's music has earned her critical acclaim (including for her latest project, 29), and she's up for three Academy of Country Music Awards later this month, so it's safe to say she's in a pretty good place right now. But she also recalls a time, earlier in her career, when she didn't quite have that much confidence.
"I actually had a lot of family and friends telling me to stay, but I had a lot of the music industry telling me to move home," the "Next Girl" singer recalls in a statement from her label. "I literally had somebody tell me, 'You should play one more showcase and move home.'
"And I've been pretty honest about it, but when I got a record deal, and I was on my radio tour, it took me a good probably year and a half to really come out of that state of mind," she continues. "Because I had been told 'no' for so long, and as a human being you just get beat down.
"But I really do believe that with every single moment that I got to the end of my rope, there was something telling me, one more day. Whether it was like a text or an email or a show would come in or somebody would write a song with me that I loved, it was just always that little glimmer of, keep going."
