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Carly Pearce: Her New Boyfriend Is In Her Band

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Carly Pearce walked the red carpet at the CMA Awards solo earlier this month (11/8), although she does have a current boyfriend. That would be Carly’s drummer, B.C. Taylor.

The couple have been dating for several months after her breakup with Riley King, whom she dated for a few years. Pearce hasn’t made the new romance a big deal, but she did say in a recent interview that he was at the CMA Awards and part of her performance with Chris Stapleton, saying that being in the band, he was “onstage with me.”

In the same interview, Carly said that she started to have feelings for Taylor: “Probably longer than I want to admit.” She added that she had an “instant connection to him.”

Pearce also said that there are pros and cons to dating someone in your band. She says it’s “really fun” to share that world, which can be “very different.” She said it’s “nice” having someone out there supporting you who gets it and is “quite literally the backbone of your every night.”

Carly also admitted that when she and B.C. fight on the road, “Everybody knows it if we’re not looking at each other onstage.”

RELATED: Carly Pearce Says Fans Will See Chris Stapleton In A ‘New Light’ During CMA Awards

On her social media, Pearce posts much more about her two dogs than her new boyfriend, although occasionally, she posts stuff with him. In a post on Instagram saying goodbye to summer a few months back, she shared a photo of her hugging her new man along with several other images from her 2023 summer.

You can see that post here.

Carly spoke about her breakup with her ex-boyfriend, Riley King, earlier this year. Carly said at a Billboard panel on women in country music in June of the split, “For the most part, it was great. People date to see if they’re gonna go the distance, and we weren’t.”

She added, “We just simply were not right for each other, and that’s the bottom line. I am on such a beautiful journey, and I am really excited about the next chapter of my life.”

The couple had been together since 2021.

Top Five Country Music Friendships

  • Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde

    These two friends will forever be linked not just for their duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” but because they won a Grammy for the performance in 2023 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. When we interviewed McBryde recently, she told us of her friendship with Pearce, “We are opposites, especially in the way we enter a room. Carly always seems to me to be very well put together and has thought out what. She’s about to say. I’m more likely to come in a room and be like (loud burst) ‘Blahhhhh’ and be kind of all over the place. I think that’s why we got along so well. But that friendship started as a songwriter wanted. I wanted to write with Carly; I wanted to sing something with her.”

  • Kane Brown and Chris Young

    These two sealed their friendship with a collaboration called “Famous Friends,” which Young co-wrote. The collaboration’s video for “Famous Friends” won the 2021 CMT Music Award for Collaboration of the Year. Early in his career. Kane told us about being a fan of Young’s music. He said, “I probably did as many Chris covers as I did other people’s covers. And then when I got signed with Sony, it was the same label that Chris was on, and they knew I loved him right off the bat.”

  • Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire

    Blake told us what Reba McEntire did for him early in his Nashville career: “The ACM announcements/ nominees three years ago (2009), way before they were asking me, host, she agreed to go, and Reba doesn’t do this; she agreed to be on CBS’ Early Morning Show to announce the nominees for the ACMs if they would let me be on there with her. Normally, they send a couple of new baby acts to go do that because nobody wants to wake up that early and go do that, but Reba did that for me. If there’s ever a time she can lend a hand, she’s always been that for me.”

    Reba sat in Shelton’s chair in “The Voice” semi-final in May. She is a Season 24 Coach.

  • Morgan Wallen and HARDY

    These guys have been friends since the beginning of their respective careers in Nashville. HARDY told us about when he first met Morgan after he heard Wallen’s debut single, “The Way I Talk.” He said, “I think it was like Top 30, and I was just a huge fan of the song, and I had not met him before, and it was just kind of the publisher route,” HARDY explained that he called his publisher and asked to be contacted with Morgan’s booker asking to write with him. HARDY said, “And two weeks later, he was on the schedule, and I got a text at like 10 am, and he was like, ‘Hey, this is Morgan Wallen, what’s your address?’ and he just showed up to my house.”

  • Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson

    Lainey and Jelly Roll are not just friends; they have an award-nominated collaboration together, “Save Me.” Jelly Roll recently told ET of his friendship with Lainey, “That’s just my sister. That’s how I look at her.” He added that there’s such a kinship with Wilson and noted that and the fact that they’re both where they are in our careers right now, at the same record label, with a song together that’s “Just on fire.”

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.

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