One of the great themes of country music, and the source of its meaningful melancholy, is the fact that life goes on even after devastating losses. After you’ve fallen to pieces, albums like Carly Pearce’s perfectly charming, funny, and honest divorce album 29: Testimonials Written in Stone, you have to pick yourself up. The theme song, written by Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne’s masterfully honed confession masters, is Pearce’s act of coming clean, admitting that picture perfection isn’t in the cards. for her. Very few expressions of heartbreak are the obvious head, self-accusing in the name of healing. “Call it what it is,” Pearce sang in his lonely alto. She is getting ready for the next step.