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Carly Pearce’s Touring Uncles: Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan

Carly Pearce is spending her summer on Jason Aldean’s “Ride All Night Tour” and she’s added him to her “country music family.” Carly says of Jason, “He is one of…

Carly Pearce's Touring Uncles: Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan
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Carly Pearce is spending her summer on Jason Aldean's "Ride All Night Tour" and she's added him to her "country music family."

Carly says of Jason, “He is one of the most genuinely nice, down to earth, welcoming people I’ve ever met. I’ve been really lucky to have great – I call them 'touring uncles,' with Blake Shelton and Rascal Flatts and Luke Bryan. But he’s awesome and his whole band is so awesome, and his crew. And they’ve been really, really good to us.”

Pearce says of comparing her fan base with Jason and Kane Brown’s whose also on Aldean's tour, “It’s a little bit of a different crowd for me, which I think it’s a little edgier than maybe the tours that I’ve been a part of before, so I feel like I’m bringing a little bit of a sparkle flavor to things that maybe he hasn’t had before.”

Carly has been working on her sophomore album which is expected for release later this year.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.