Carter Faith Slates Debut Record For October Release
Carter Faith is slated to release her debut record, Cherry Valley, on Oct. 3 via MCA. She has unveiled the latest track from the LP, “Sex, Drugs and Country Music,” today (June 27).
“Cherry Valley means everything to me,” says Faith. “Every time I have slipped into a dark place (which I have a propensity for), this album has brought me out of it. I know that I wrote the songs but they still carry reminders for me every day when I relisten. Some of the songs have even transformed for me and mean something different now. The world of Cherry Valley has been a safe and freeing place for me and everyone who has worked so hard on this record. I have truly created this album with my best friends, which feels surreal. It feels like it belongs to all of us, because it does.”
The songs on Cherry Valley span Faith’s journey from her North Carolina hometown to Nashville, with all the heartbreak, triumph and hazy nights in between. Carter and longtime producer Tofer Brown spent two years crafting tracks for the album before finally entering the studio in 2024. Named for an imagined place, a road sign Carter once saw that came to signify her creative home, the album is a document of Carter’s time in Nashville, working chronologically through her breakout successes and gut-punching breakups, new loves and family dustups.
Fresh from her Stagecoach debut and runs with Ella Langley and Carly Pearce, Faith will head back out with Little Big Town this summer.
Cherry Valley Track List:
1. “Cherry Valley” (Carter Faith, Ashley Monroe, Andrew Petroff)
2. “Sex, Drugs, and Country Music” (Carter Faith, Lauren Hungate, Tofer Brown)
3. “Arrows (Die For That Man)” (Carter Faith, Steph Jones, Tofer Brown)
4. “Bar Star” (Carter Faith, Aaron Raitere, Tyler Halverson, Tofer Brown)
5. “Betty” (Carter Faith, Shane McAnally, Tofer Brown)
6. “Grudge” (Carter Faith, Steph Jones, Tofer Brown)
7. “Six-String” (Carter Faith, Lauren Hungate, Tofer Brown)
8. “If I Had Never Lost My Mind…” (Carter Faith, Tofer Brown, Lauren Hungate, Jen Stegall)
9. “Misery Loves Company” (Carter Faith, Lauren Hungate, Tofer Brown)
10. “Drink Up, Baby” (Carter Faith, Amy Allen, Tofer Brown)
11. “Burn My Memory” (Carter Faith, Jessi Alexander, Brock Berryhill, Jessie Jo Dillon)
12. “Sails” (Carter Faith, Lauren Hungate, Tofer Brown)
13. “So I Sing”(Carter Faith)
14. “Changed” (Carter Faith, Ashley Monroe, Connie Harrington)
15. “Still A Lover” (Carter Faith, Tofer Brown, Steph Jones)
