It’sKelsea Ballerini’s time to shine!
In an exclusive first-look shared with PEOPLE from Ballerini’s upcomingCMT Storytellersinstallment, the country star takes the stage to perform an acoustic version of her song “If You Go Down (I’m Goin' Down Too).”
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“Songwriting is my therapy, my haven, my best friend, and my exhale. it’s the purest part of what I do, and I am grateful to join a lineup of storytellers I’ve learned from as I tell mine,” Ballerini said in a press release.
Ballerini will headline the third installment of the music series on Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. ET with an encore at 11 p.m. that night. Encore broadcasts will air again on Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. ET, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. ET and Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. ET and 6 p.m. ET.
Brooks & Dunnkicked off the series revival in April andDarius Ruckerfollowed in August — making Ballerini the first woman to headline the series.
“If You Go Down (I’m Goin' Down Too)” was featured on Ballerini’s latest studio albumSubject to Change, which she released in September.
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Ahead of its release, the singer spoke to PEOPLE about the “beauty” and “messiness” in her soul searching thatinspired the record.
“It’s really my post-pandemic project. Like everyone else in the world, I was forced to sit in stillness and I’m not good at that,” she told PEOPLE. “I like to be in full sprint all the time, working and playing shows and making records. And that wasn’t an option. In that time I kind of woke up and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not 19 anymore. That’s weird.’ And I have a lot of life to process and a lot of time to do it.”
She continued, “I think in that unraveling of all these beautiful, amazing experiences that I had gotten to have over the years in my career and my personal life … it really unlocked this honesty and more so than the honesty, the guts to go there in some ways. And I think that’s heard throughout the whole project.”
source: people.com
