Carly Pearce on 'Getting High and Talking to Jesus'

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Carly Pearce is unafraid to raise tough questions about faith, marriage, and success in country music. In a startling candid episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, the Kentucky singer-songwriter addresses the polarizing response to her new song “Church Girl,” opens up about the sacrifices she’s had to make for her career, and wonders if you can ever really “move on” from a broken relationship. “Those parts of your story, they’re never gone,” Pearce says. Also, we run down the week’s news, including word of a new Highwomen album, and give you our five Hear Nows, the songs in country music you just have to hear this week. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Spiegel, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the Newsroom.
0:04.8	It's news like you've never heard before.
0:07.7	We'll talk about things like a possible ban on recreational pot,
0:11.3	Americans giving up on dressing like civilized human beings,
0:14.9	and a call for fraternities to be outlawed.
0:17.6	If you enjoy wild overthinking, lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's funny,
0:23.0	informative, and emotionally unstable. Lunatic in the newsroom. Listen today.
0:32.6	Check on to.
0:34.3	All right.
0:36.4	Hey, welcome to Rolling Stones Nashville Now.
0:39.4	I'm your host, senior music editor Joseph Hudak.
0:42.5	We are here in the Nashville Now cabin for our podcast on all things country music and
0:48.1	Nashville.
0:49.6	Country is here.
0:51.0	Nashville is now.
0:52.7	We have Carly Pearson, the cabin today, and she has two superb songs out
0:57.4	right now that really moved us. One is called Church Girl. The other one is called Dream Come True.
1:03.8	We're going to talk to her about both of those. It's really interesting. Dream Come True is about all that
1:08.3	you sacrifice for your career. We talked about that.
1:12.3	A couple episodes ago when we raved about Kelsey Ballerini's, I Sit in Parks.
1:16.8	Very similar theme.
1:19.0	We asked Carly if she and Kelsey kind of talked about those ideas when they were writing these songs.
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