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Carly Pearce paid tribute to powerful songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee.
Pearce spotlighted songwriters Jordan Reynolds and Lauren Hungate in a video she shared on her social media pages on Monday (April 29), reflecting on a stunning performance by the trio on stage in Music City last Thursday night (April 25). That was the night Pearce and Tim McGraw took the stage at Bridgestone Arena during the Nashville stop of the “Standing Room Only Tour.” Pearce is the special guest on McGraw’s tour, along with other artists joining on select dates: The Woods, Restless Road, Track45, Randall King, Abby Anderson, Landon Parker, Heartwreckers, Peytan Porter and Timothy Wayne.
Reynolds and Hungate joined Pearce to perform “my place,” a heartache ballad that debuted earlier this month ahead of Pearce’s new album, hummingbird. The trio wrote “my place” together. It’s a song that Pearce said came to her in a dream, and captures “that feeling you get after you go through a devastating break up.”
“The Nashville songwriting community is so precious to me,” Pearce wrote in her caption on Instagram. “As artists, we truly couldn’t do what we do without them. I wrote ‘my place’ with two of the best songwriters in town & it meant so much to me that they wanted to join me on stage in Nashville to play our song. These two have helped shape the ‘hummingbird’ record and tell my stories perfectly. Jordan and Lauren, thank you again 🤍 I’ll never forget Thursday night.”
“My place” is one of 14 tracks set to appear on hummingbird, Pearce’s highly-anticipated follow-up to her smash-hit 2021 album, 29: Written in Stone. She’s also released the title track, “country music made me do it,” “heels over head,” and “we don’t fight anymore,” featuring Chris Stapleton.
“I woke up the morning I wrote this song after having a dream that the relationship I was in had ended. It was almost like my heart knew it was going to happen before I wanted to believe it. It’s hard to let people go,” Pearce previously said of “my place.” “Your heart wrestles with the fact that someone who was once your whole world, isn’t it anymore. Social media sure doesn’t make it easy either, as we all see when our exes move on :). This song is my story of that realization and also that acceptance. That it’s not ‘my place’ anymore…”
Pearce celebrated her 34th birthday by announcing her album would release one week before its originally-announced date. Now, hummingbird will arrive on June 7. She said “7 is my favorite number and it’s right before CMA Fest,” where she’ll take the main stage on Sunday, June 9 at Nissan Stadium in Downtown Nashville. The star-studded lineup at this year's CMA Fest will also include Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Bryan, Cody Johnson, Jon Pardi, Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson and many others.
“The last few years have been a season of loss and growth, of healing and happiness. A belief that if I did the inner work, I would rebuild myself stronger than I was before, and a knowing that I have done some living and will always be unapologetic about it,” Pearce said as originally announced hummingbird on March 1, the same day she delivered the debut live performance of the title track at Country Radio Seminar (CRS). “These 14 songs incapsulate my confidence that there is light on the other side of darkness and my true love of country music.
“When you hear this album — Wherever you are on your journey, I hope it shows you that pain can be a lesson that shows you just how strong you are and what you truly deserve,” she continued. “That we can all find the ‘hummingbird’ in the midst of whatever we’re going through.”