This isn’t your average breakup song. “Leaving Carolina” finds the fast-rising country star Ty Myers blending cinematic country with gritty Southern soul. The track features a haunting steel guitar, steady percussion, and Myers’s smoldering vocals, all recorded in the hallowed halls of FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL.

The song captures the raw emotion of a love story ending as the protagonist drives away: “Am I leaving Carolina / Or is Carolina leaving me?“ The story is steeped in classic country imagery—looking in the rearview mirror and grappling with the uncertainty of a difficult goodbye.