HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM CHERRY VALLEY OUT OCTOBER 3
August 20, 2025—Rising Nashville star Carter Faith shares the official music video for her single, “Bar Star,” starring Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton, today—watch the video here. Her highly anticipated debut album, Cherry Valley, is set for release October 3 via MCA—pre-order/pre-save here.
Carter is a longtime fan of Thornton’s, as evidenced by the surprise “Bar Star” B-side “Billy Bob Thornton (Worktape).” Carter reached out to Billy Bob with a request to star as her ne’er-do-well love interest in the “Bar Star” video and was delighted when he said yes.
“I can’t believe I somehow convinced Billy to be in my music video,” Faith says. “He is the ultimate bar star in my opinion, and I’m so grateful to him and for his friendship.”
The music video follows previous album offerings “If I Had Never Lost My Mind…,” “Grudge,” and most recently, “Sex, Drugs and Country Music.” The tracks have served to tide fans over since the release of The Aftermath EP last fall, which featured a duet with Alison Krauss and debuted to praise from Billboard, The Tennessean, American Songwriter and more.
Cherry Valley is a document of Carter’s time in Nashville, working chronologically through her breakout successes and gut-punching breakups, new loves and family dustups. It’s named for an imagined place, a road sign Carter once saw that came to signify her creative home, a sweet spot where her old school influences like Tammy Wynette, Nancy Sinatra, Pet Sounds and Revolver meet today’s country. The album synthesizes all that into a signature Carter Faith sound.
The songs on Cherry Valley span Carter’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 to lay it down. All the while, Carter was working relentlessly to climb the ranks of country music, signing to MCA and Universal Music Publishing Group, gracing the Opry stage a dozen times, sharing stages with idols like Willie Nelson, and racking up hundreds of millions of streams.
Fresh from her Stagecoach debut and runs with Ella Langley and Carly Pearce, Carter is back on the road with Little Big Town through August. She’ll join Noah Cyrus in September and finish off the year supporting Marcus King and Kelsea Ballerini this winter. See below for full routing.
