Carter Faith believes in country music

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Set us as preferred Carter Faith has read the articles about Gen Z turning away from humanity’s oldest vices, and she’s here to say those articles don’t speak for her.“Yeah, that’s … not been my experience,” says the 26-year-old country singer, whose whip-smart debut, “Cherry Valley,” features songs called “Bar Star” (about a man who looks good under neon), “Drink Up, Baby” (in which she waits for an ex “at the bottom of the cup”) and “Sex, Drugs & Country Music” (about, well, you get it).“I’m from a small town,” she explains with a shrug.“What else was there to do as a kid besides stealing your parents’ liquor?”That said, whiskey is a no-go for this tequila drinker — “I feel like it has the devil in it a little bit” — as is weed these days.

“I had a good run, for sure,” she says.“But my career has changed so much in the last year that now it just makes me go too deep.” She laughs.“I’m overanalyzing everything instead of just being like, I have no cares in the world, and nobody knows who I am.”Indeed, the 12 months since “Cherry Valley” came out have been a whirlwind, with rave reviews, opening gigs for Kacey Musgraves and Post Malone and a prestigious album of the year nomination at the ACM Awards.

Now, Faith is preparing to hit the road with Shaboozey — they’ll stop at the Greek Theatre on Oct.27 — just as she’s in the running for new artist of the year at next month’s CMA Awards.Titled after a Tumblr she maintained as a kid, the expertly appointed “Cherry Valley” applies a modern sensibility to a throwback sound; Faith sings frankly about lovers and cheaters amid arrangements that evoke the hand-played classics of mid-’60s pop and country.

(Among her favorite years: 1966, which as she points out gave us both the Beach Boys’ “Pe...