Carter Faith proved her mettle as a country songwriting talent in the early 2020s across a series of EPs and singles. The North Carolina-born singer’s work explores classic country themes—love gained and lost—with an attitude-rich, feminist bent. Faith frequently invokes the archetype of the rambling cowboy, but she studies him from unusual perspectives; on the somber “Cowboy Forever,” he is a type of person more than a person, a symbol of toxic love. In her 2022 hit “Greener Pasture,” she editorializes his wanderlust: “One day you’ll wake up, he’s packin’ up his truck/And he don’t even know what he’s after/But cowboys always find a greener pasture.”