Carter Faith drops Pearl Handled Pistol video with Laci Kaye Booth
The revenge-song clip for the Cherry Valley Forever deluxe track brings in Booth and Baby Nova for a country tradition with a body to bury.
By Poppy Nakagawa · Culture Writer
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Carter Faith’s “Pearl Handled Pistol” video puts the singer deep into a classic country revenge setup, with Laci Kaye Booth and Baby Nova joining her for a clip that Rolling Stone described as a nod to murder-minded women’s anthems.
The new video features Faith, Booth and Baby Nova, who also appear on the track, acting out the darkly comic storyline tied to the song from Faith’s deluxe LP, Cherry Valley Forever. In a still credited by Rolling Stone to Lily Nelson, the three artists are shown hiding a body in the video.
Rolling Stone’s Marissa R. Moss framed the clip as part of a country lineage that includes the Chicks’ 1999 song “Goodbye Earl,” a revenge classic centered on getting rid of a bad man and dumping him in the woods. The magazine wrote that Faith’s song, like that Chicks standard, is presented less as a plain murder tale than as a story about women taking power.
What is Carter Faith’s Pearl Handled Pistol video about?
The video for “Pearl Handled Pistol” turns the song’s revenge theme into a cinematic country caper, with Faith, Booth and Baby Nova involved in concealing a body. Rolling Stone reported that the clip leans into the genre’s long-running taste for women-led payback songs.
The track was written by Faith, Booth, Jessie Jo Dillon and Chris Tompkins, according to Rolling Stone. The outlet described the song as carrying echoes of the Chicks and Pistol Annies, with Bakersfield-style guitar touches and verses passed among the three vocalists.
For now, the collaboration appears to be a one-song team-up. Rolling Stone noted that no additional project from the trio has been announced.
Where the song fits in country’s revenge streak
Rolling Stone placed “Pearl Handled Pistol” alongside recent and older examples of women in country music using gun imagery and revenge-song storytelling. The outlet cited Willow Avalon and Margo Price as part of that current thread, while also pointing to Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder & Lead” as a key reference point.
The point, as Rolling Stone presented it, is who gets to carry the weapon in the story. In this corner of country music, the pistol is not just a prop, it is part of a broader tradition of women flipping familiar outlaw and revenge imagery back onto their own narratives.
What are Carter Faith and Laci Kaye Booth doing next?
Faith is currently on the road with Post Malone, according to Rolling Stone. She is also set to begin her Cherry Valley Forever tour this fall.
Booth has her own release coming soon. Rolling Stone reported that her new album, Love Ain’t for the Faint of Heart, is due Sept. 18 and will be her first album for Lost Highway Records.
Booth has also been touring during the summer, opening for Ella Langley in select cities, according to the magazine.
This story draws on original reporting from Rolling Stone.