Carly Pearce

Um, and I feel like he helped me like really wrestle with that and like be honest with myself that I struggled with that and then get more confident and trust myself and trust myself in the studio.

And, um,

trust the kind of music I want to make and not try to chase a trend or not try to do this because it's what's working right now or, you know, all those different things.

So I, and he was like a very, did you ever meet him?

Love you.

But he was a very strong personality and like, he didn't take any shit.

And he was like, I love that about him.

Like he, he was very much like what you see is what you get.

And I feel like he taught me to like be tough in that.

Well, and that's why I've, I mean, I slide up on your stories all the time because I find it so refreshing, especially in our business where the women in the South, because we sing country music and we love Jesus, we have to shut up and take it.

And I've been guilty of it.

And I just think you have brought

so much like realness to that.

And that's why I'm always like, yes.

And I laugh at you.

Cause I'm like, do you know how many times I want to say that?

No, I'm just like, it's so, it's like, why should you have to allow that?

You know, like that kind of energy and like whoever's sitting behind a freaking computer, it's like,

It says so much more about you than, and I just love it.

I love, I love watching you like stand up for yourself.