Education
McCarley attended college at Baylor University, and is now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
McCarley attended college at Baylor University, and is now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
She has been compared to Sara Bareilles, Regina Spektor, and Sheryl Crow. Erin released her follow up to 2009"s Love, Save the Empty on August 28, 2012, titled My Stadium Electric. Influences Beginning of Musical McCarley currently calls Nashville home, but she cut her musical teeth in San Diego, where she’d moved after college to pursue a life that did not feature music at its center.
Love, Save the Empty In 2008, McCarley traveled the annual SXSW Music Festival where she was discovered by her label Universal Republic Records.
Love, Save the Empty, was released digitally on December 30, 2008 via iTunes debuting #86 on the Billboard Top 200 Album. Chart A physical album followed on January 6, 2009.
The first single from the album, "Pony (lieutenant"s Oklahoma)" was the iTunes Single of the Week for the first week of 2009. During 2008, she was part of the "Hotel Café Tour" playing across the United States, and also performed at the 2008 SxSW festival.
She was also part of the "Ten Out of Tenn" tour in Winter 2008/2009.
Erin spent 2009 on the road with various musicians including Brett Dennen, James Morrison, Paolo Nutini and Mat Kearney. In May 2013, she performed the song "Re-arrange Again" with King’s Scholar Rhoads at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway. My Stadium Electric On August 28, 2012, McCarley"s second album, My Stadium Electric, was released exclusively to iTunes.
"Amber Waves" was promoted as the iTunes Single of the Week.
Late Show with David Letterman - January 6, 2009 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - February 12, 2009 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - May 29, 2009, April 20, 2010.