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Carly Pearce Talks Making Her ‘Healing’ Fourth Album ‘hummingbird’: Hear Title Track Now

The gauzy, stripped-down visualizer for Carly Pearce's “hummingbird,” premiering on Billboard, sets the tone for the images for the project.

After the heaviness of 2021’s EP 29 and its full-length companion 29: Written in Stone, Pearce says writing the songs for hummingbird felt “light and airy and freeing and like a big exhale.” Both 29 and 29: Written in Stone received commercial and critical acclaim, including Pearce’s duet with Ashley McBryde, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl,” which won a Grammy in 2023 for best country duo/ group performance. That included “doubling down” on the traditional country instrumentation the Kentucky native featured on those two sets that was noticeably absent from her first two albums helmed by the late pop producer busbee.

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