Tim Brooke & Barrel Catch Up With Carly Pearce

This morning we caught up with Carly Pearce, who will be in KNIX Country tomorrow with Tim McGraw at the Footprint Center. You can also hear Carly hosting the Tim McGraw pre party tomorrow on KNIX starting at 5pm. Carly shares details about her new album Hummingbird, her new single Truck On Fire, and updates us on her recent health scare.  Do not worry, it was not all serious, we had many laughs with Carly, and can not wait to see her tomorrow night in KNIX Country!

Episode Transcript

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Carly Pierce made another outum that's herfourth album. It's called Hummingbird. She's
going to be here tomorrow night withTim McGraw. She joins us now on
can I X Hi. How youdoing this morning, Carly? I'm good.
How are y'all? I mean,we're good. We're good. A
little hot and sweaty here in Phoenix, but you know, nothing new there.
I guess I'll find out, Iguess so. Oh yeah, Well,

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we're really excited to see you herewith Tim McGraw. Can't wait to
hear some new songs. What wouldyou say is the best part of being
on tour with Tim and the worstpart? The worst part's got to be
flipping those giant tires, I'm assumingI would say the best part is that
he's just the nicest person ever,and that I get to see Faith Hill

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all the time. Oh, andI would say the worst part is just
beating the presence of how much heworks out and all twelve of his abs,
you know, every day. It'sa lot, That's true. I
reposted that that you were like inthe lobby of whatever venue you were performing,
and then you were up above themerch table. You just went out

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and said hi to the crowd there, and they're like, huh, looked
up, Who's that? I know? Why do I do this to myself?
Yeah? I think it's hilarious sometimesthat, Like people just don't associate
you in those kind of contexts.I guess, right, And yeah,

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they had no idea who I was. I think they thought I was a
crazy person. It'd be like runninginto you at CVS pharmacy like that looked
kind of like Carly Pearce. Comeon, that couldn't be fair. I
know, right, it is kindof funny. They just don't expect it.
I want to ask about your health. I thought that was a kind
of a stunning revelation. You've gotthis heart condition that you have to really

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watch your heart rate. Yeah,it's called Perry carditis, and it's inflammation
of the sack that holds your heart. And yeah, it's been an interesting
month of completely changing the way thatI live my life life as far as
physical activity and just moving around atall. And so I've been adjusting and

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getting better and hoping that over thenext month I'll be completely back to normal.
We're good, good, Well,You've got a lot going on.
It's enough time to slow down foryou because your new song we Love chruck
on fire. Now, what isthe most unhinged thing you've actually done in
a breakup? Or to a guywritten an album about him? Okay,

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all right, but at least that'swords. At least you haven't actually what
if I've actually done. I'm tryingto think what I've done. You know,
what I have done is like caughtthem in just lie after lie after
lie after lie and presented them totheir face with all of the lies,

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kind of like you know, ina power point pretty much that you know
what, they still freaking lied,lied all the way out the freaking door.
Well that's that's a sociopath and youthank you. You should set his
truck on file. I'll help you. Let me know, God, I
would love to. All right,I'm going to stop you both before you
incriminate yourself. It's getting a littleconspiratorial around here. But we're looking forward

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to seeing you tomorrow night. CarlyPierce is going to host the pre show
here on one O two five Kand I X with some stuff from Tim
McGraw and her music, and we'relooking forward to it at Footprint Center.
I guess at eight twenty five,we're giving away last pair of tickets we
have for the big show with CarlyPearce and Tim McGraw. It's great to
talk to you. Thank you somuch. See y'all very soon.