Erin McCarley
“Songstress’s heartbreak rakes in record sales”
By: Valerie Lai
Published by the The Daily Texan, Student Newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin.
Erin McCarley underestimated the mass appeal of her achingly personal songs. Before her album even debuted, her music was being used to capture peak moments of young-adult angst and sorrow in “One Tree Hill,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “He’s Just Not That Into You.” McCarley is set to play with Matt Nathanson and Jack’s Mannequin in Austin this weekend.
Love, Save the Empty, the indie songstress’s debut album, was released Jan. 6, the same day she performed on David Letterman.
“I was freaked out and so nervous and excited at the same time,” McCarley said. “It was definitely a career peak because my record came out that day, and I had a record release party that night, so Letterman was in the middle of all that. It was a crazy day in New York.” Click here for the full article
