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MAREN MORRIS’ THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “HUMBLE QUEST” OUT NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)

MAREN MORRIS’ THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “HUMBLE QUEST” OUT NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)

MAREN MORRIS’ THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “HUMBLE QUEST” OUT NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)
Maren Morris – Humble Quest Album Art
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Here are the Intro, Outro and Story Work Parts to support the release of Maren Morris’s Humble Quest. Thank you for your continued support!!

Maren Morris – Humble Quest Tracklisting (VIDEO)
Maren Morris – Humble Quest Tracklisting (VIDEO)
“Putting track listings together for albums, it truly is an obsession for me. I think that, you know, as someone that is truly loves listening to albums in sequence of how the artist wants you to hear them, like I am glad people are getting rid of like shuffle mode. Because I hate listening to things out of order of when artists wanted them. And so I think the same for my own. It’s a story that you’re telling from the top down. So you don’t want people like jumping to the end. So it really is kind of designed to be listened to in sequence. And I think kind of starting off with Circles Around This Town, it’s fun. It kind of like, lifts you and then we kind of like I cradle you with The Furthest Thing. And I Can’t Love You Anymore brings you back up. And then Humble Quest is like the humbling medium. And then, I mean, it’s just it’s really designed to be a journey. And I feel like I could be one of those musicologists at Johns Hopkins that just curates playlists for patients because I feel like I’ve always loved making playlists and you know, mixed CDs for friends and road trips and whatnot. But yeah, I feel like that’s the same when you’re an artist and you’re making a sequence of a tracklisting or a setlist it’s like you’re finding magical moments.”

HUMBLE QUEST CUT X CUT

1. CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN

CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN – INTRO (AUDIO)
CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Circles Around This Town was one of the first songs written for this record, before I even knew this record was forming. And writing that song that day with Ryan [Hurd] and Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins was kind of the, the first kickoff of what I felt like was the sound of this album. And it was such a relief. I think I breathed a sigh of relief knowing okay, I can still do this. Like, this is fun, because it had just been such a long like beginning of the pandemic. And I was also dealing with like postpartum and so Circles Around This Town kind of reignited that like pilot light in me knowing that okay, I can do this again. And I don’t suck and I can keep going. And it’s just, I felt it in my bones that it was going to be the first single when I got the mix back. It just felt right and it felt like we needed to kick this year off with something fun. So that’s what we did.
CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN – OUTRO (AUDIO)


2. THE FURTHEST THING

THE FURTHEST THING – INTRO (AUDIO)
THE FURTHEST THING: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
THE FURTHEST THING: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
The Furthest Thing I wrote with Greg Kirstin, my producer, and my husband, Ryan. Ryan and I went to Hawaii because Greg was spending most of his, like quarantine with his family at their place in Hawaii. Because LA was pretty much shut down, schools were shut down. So they were just living it up there. So I thought, alright, I’ll just come to you and get a free trip to Hawaii out of it. And we, yeah, for like a few weeks just hunkered down and wrote songs, we would have big group dinners at the end of the day. It was just such a beautiful time, like with my son and my husband and these creative collaborative people in my life. And The Furthest Thing was a song that was sort of sneaky, like we wrote it, and I loved it. And then I discovered it again a few weeks after we got back from Hawaii. And Greg sent me the rough mix and I was like, holy sh*t, like, this is really good. I love this. This really is making me emotional. And so I felt like putting it in the album at the beginning right after Circles was just such a left turn after such a bombastic song like Circles, to kind of ease the listener back into the story. So I truly do think like The Furthest Thing is the beginning of the story.
THE FURTHEST THING – OUTRO (AUDIO)


3. I CAN’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE

I CAN’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE – INTRO (AUDIO)
I CAN’T LOVE YOU ANY MORE: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
I CAN’T LOVE YOU ANY MORE: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
I Can’t Love You Any More is a song that we also wrote in Hawaii. Greg Kurstin, Ryan Hurd, and I. And Ryan had that title: I Can’t Love You Any More. And you know, I just I’ve written with him so many times I can always tell when he’s like got a fire in his eyes and he knows he’s gonna bowl me ofsver with the idea. And he was right so he said the hook I Can’t Love You Any More than I do now. And I was hooked. I loved it. It reminded me of like the John Prine in spite of ourselves duet. And it was just sort of this, like, super quirky, realistic, a romantic look at two people that are bonkers but made for each other. So it’s one of my favorites.
I CAN’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE – OUTRO (AUDIO)


4. HUMBLE QUEST

HUMBLE QUEST – INTRO (AUDIO)
HUMBLE QUEST: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
HUMBLE QUEST: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Humble Quest was a weird title that popped into my head when I was driving one day. And it was shortly before I started recording with Greg [Kirstin]. But I had the idea. I brought it to my friends and very frequent co writers, Laura Velts, and Jimmy Robbins. And I said the title and they had no idea what I was talking about. They were like, that sounds weird, tell us more. And I just said, I don’t know, this is just such a humbling time. I feel like really heavy. I feel like the world feels heavy right now. And I’m just like searching for some sunshine. And, like, can I do this like just a lot of self questioning. And I felt like, especially as a woman in country music, feels like that kind of push/pull of wanting to remain close to your roots and grounded from where you came from. But also knowing that it is absolutely okay and healthy to be like, you know what, I’ve got this. I’m good at this. This is what I do. I’m confident in this. It was just a fun exercise to write a whole song about such a bizarre feeling of like, am I humble? I don’t know. I guess I’ll find out.
HUMBLE QUEST – OUTRO (AUDIO)



5. BACKGROUND MUSIC

BACKGROUND MUSIC – INTRO (AUDIO)
BACKGROUND MUSIC: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
BACKGROUND MUSIC: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Background Music is a song I wrote the same week that I wrote Humble Quest, and I wrote it with the same people. Jimmy and Laura. We were writing a ton that week. And I brought that title in almost as like an idea to write something sexy, like, oh, everything else was background music when I’m with you. And you know, that obviously didn’t work out. And I’m glad it didn’t. Because I think that as I had a conversation with Laura and Jimmy, it just grew into something much more mature and evergreen. Background Music to me is a love song about the idea that like, my husband and I who are both in music. We joke about like, someday we’re gonna be old has-beens. And, you know, playing the the dollar slots at the casino and talking about yesteryear and our golden years. And I just feel like it’s a weird realism check to be like, yeah, this doesn’t go on forever. I mean, unless you’re like Mick Jagger. At some point, we’re probably going to like, ride into the sunset and just enjoy our retirement. I don’t know. But I think it’s kind of a song about mortality as well and knowing that someday like, I think it would be amazing if people still heard my songs after I was gone. And songs that I’ve written with someone that I loved.
BACKGROUND MUSIC – OUTRO (AUDIO)



6. NERVOUS

NERVOUS – INTRO (AUDIO)
NERVOUS: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
NERVOUS: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Nervous I wrote with my good friend Natalie Hemby and our friend, Jimmy Robbins. And Natalie, she actually brought this idea in to me and Jimmy and Jimmy just had an electric in his hands. So we went with that and it felt really roughed up. And like, we didn’t want to keep anything too slick with the production or the vocal. And it just felt like okay, let’s lean into this, like really sexual, empowering vibe of being like, you make me nervous. But like, how am I going to describe all the imagery, laden ways that you do this? And so I just feel like writing with Natalie always brings out the most colorful lyrics and we definitely went there on this song. And I also feel like vocally, I just got in the vocal booth and wailed on it. It was the first time I felt like I took the training wheels off in a long time and just got to belt it. So I’m excited to play that one live.
NERVOUS – OUTRO (AUDIO)



7. TALL GUYS

TALL GUYS – INTRO (AUDIO)
TALL GUYS: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
TALL GUYS: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Tall Guys I wrote with Aaron Raitiere and Natalie Hemby and it was my first time writing with Aaron. And he is just like a walking bumper sticker like he always has something hilarious to say. He’s such a country guy, but so whip smart and I can’t remember if like I brought that title in or Natalie did but it was probably Natalie. It’s such a Natalie title. But, you know, I’m five one, my husband is like six three, everyone is taller than me literally. So I just wanted to write a song that was like, a love song, but also just showing my appreciation for the population that is taller than me, which is everybody. And I like that we kind of end the chorus with like, Hey, I love all types, but there’s something about tall guys. So it’s it’s an ode to my husband for sure.
TALL GUYS – OUTRO (AUDIO)



8. DETOUR

DETOUR – INTRO (AUDIO)
DETOUR: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
DETOUR: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Detour I wrote with Greg Kirstin, Sarah Aarons and Laura Velts. And we actually the week we wrote it, Sheryl Crow was kind enough to let us use her barn studio here in Nashville, because Greg was coming in town. And I was like, I mean, there’s some studios, we could go check out but like, you know, I’m just going to see if Cheryl will let us use it because she like offered one time and I was like, I’m going to cash in on this favor. So she was kind enough to let us use her studio that week. And it’s magical because it’s like, a horse stable slash studio. So you can like open a window, and there’s a horse head, like, so it’s very otherworldly to be there. You feel like you’re not in Nashville. But we wrote Detour. Greg was just layering crazy, like beautiful guitar sounds. And Sarah was in town from LA that day, so or that week. So we wrote this song and it just kind of felt like this old throwback to like those LeAnn Womack records I grew up listening to where it’s just I think it’s probably one of the most country songs on the record, just vocally, and I love the country instrumentation. We do some like steel on there and slide and it’s just a really beautiful song.
DETOUR – OUTRO (AUDIO)



9. HUMMINGBIRD

HUMMINGBIRD – INTRO (AUDIO)
HUMMINGBIRD: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
HUMMINGBIRD: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
Hummingbird was the first song that I wrote for this project not knowing, but it was back in 2019. And I wrote it with The Love Junkies. And we just that day, you know, I took a pregnancy test, I had been taking a few. So it wasn’t like a complete shock. But I found out I was pregnant the day I was writing with The Love Junkies, so on my way to the right, I called my husband and I was like, it’s positive, like, we’re having a baby. And I went to my write. And I was like, I’m just gonna tell them because Liz Rose, Lori McKenna and Hillary Lindsey. They’re all badass songwriters, but they’re also mothers. And so I felt like it was such a safe way to like, share that exciting news. And they were all like freaking out for me. And so we wrote Hummingbird because Liz Rose, whose house we were writing at that day, she has like hummingbirds, all around her feeders. And I was so jealous because I was like, I can never get them at my house. Like they don’t come here. And they’re like, oh, your tattoo is a hummingbird. And like, I was like, oh, yeah, and my guitar is one two, it’s a Gibson Hummingbird. That animal has just followed me this entire time. And they were like, we should write that then. It ended up becoming this triple entendre of like music and my like ink, and then my little hummingbird heartbeat that was growing inside me with Hayes. And so it was almost like this lullaby that we got to write to my son before I ever met him. And then by the time that we were recording Hummingbird, Hayes was over a year old and so he was starting to talk and say, Mama so I just on the porch one morning got him to say mama, which was like the only word he knew. And I just sent the voice text to Greg and he put it at the top of Hummingbird. So Hayes, my son is technically the only feature on this.
HUMMINGBIRD – OUTRO (AUDIO)



10. GOOD FRIENDS

GOOD FRIENDS – INTRO (AUDIO)
GOOD FRIENDS: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
GOOD FRIENDS: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
I wrote Good Friends, it was kind of my one and only zoom co-write. Because I realized very quickly, I hated writing on Zoom. It was just so clinical and scrubbed all the vibe out of why writing songs is fun. But I will say, I’m glad that I stuck with it that day and didn’t close my laptop because I was writing with Greg Kristin, who was in I think, Hawaii. And then Natalie Hemby came over and we wrote on my porch with Greg on the laptop, and he was just creating like a loop. And then, you know, Natalie and I are such great friends. We’re in The Highwomen together, we’ve written so many songs for our projects over the years, and she’s just one of those real ones that’s going to be with me for good. And so I actually wrote it about her. I also wrote it about my friend here in Nashville that’s like not really in the music industry. But like she just keeps me so grounded and doesn’t care if I’m successful or not. Like we’re still gonna go get beers on a beautiful summer day and shoot the sh*t. So I feel like it’s sort of my dedication to her because I was like, I don’t think I’ve written a song about friendship like that’s such a huge part of our life and I wish there like more songs about it. So I decided to write this one.
GOOD FRIENDS – OUTRO (AUDIO)



11. WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD DO

WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD DO – INTRO (AUDIO)
WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD DO: Cut x Cut (VIDEO)
WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD DO: Cut x Cut (AUDIO)
So the last song on Humble Quest is What Would This World Do, which I wrote with my husband, Ryan, and our friend, John Green. And we wrote it about our friend and my producer, Busbee, who sadly passed away a couple years ago from glioblastoma. And it was very rapid, and terminal. And we wrote this song, we wrote it before he passed away. So we were kind of hoping that, hey, if we write this for Busbee, maybe he’ll pull through, like, you just don’t know how powerful music or those vibrations can be. And so it was kind of our attempt at like, keeping his spark alive. And he sadly passed away shortly after. But, you know, as my producer of my first two records, and the guy that like really saw something in me, very early on, we wrote My Church together, 80s Mercedes, like he was so integral to the formation of those two, like solidification records for me, I wanted to end this record with that dedication to him, because even though he’s not with us anymore, and he’s not on this album, as a creator, he did help create a sound with me in the beginning. And I feel like he’s still with me, his wife, after he passed away, gave me his piano. So his piano is in my basement with all of our like, you know, guitars and stuff, and my son loves playing on it. So it really feels like an heirloom, and he’s with me. And this song is, you know, one of the most heartbreaking and personal but I think, cathartic songs, because no one can escape the end. But I think the legacy we leave behind whether it’s our songs, or our memories, or the way we touched a complete stranger, which he did to so many, I feel like that is the most magical thing that exists that we know of on Earth. And so this was my way of honoring my friend, and my collaborator with this song.
WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD DO – OUTRO (AUDIO)


MAREN MORRIS’ THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “HUMBLE QUEST” OUT NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)
Maren Morris – Credit: Harper Smith

March 25, 2022—Humble Quest, the highly-anticipated new album from Grammy-winning superstar Maren Morris, is out today on Sony Music Nashville’s Columbia Nashville imprint—get it here. The video for “Humble Quest” also debuts today—watch here.

Maren will perform on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” tonight, with appearances on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “The Howard Stern Show” to follow on March 28.

Furthermore, Maren’s Humble Quest Tour will see her play headline dates across the U.S. this year.Kicking off in June, the tour includes stops at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater and more—see full routing below and visit marenmorris.com/tour for more information.

Humble Quest features the much-lauded “Nervous,” “Background Music” and “Circles Around This Town,” which broke Amazon Music’s record for most streams for a country song debut by a female artist and is currently Top 20 and climbing at country airplay charts.

Humble Quest is receiving widespread critical acclaim…

“Pocket-size but with alpha presence, like a country music Mighty Mouse.”

“Morris’ full breadth is encapsulated on Humble Quest…”

“‘Circles Around This Town’ moves along with the kind of ambling groove that’s been a big part of Morris’ sound — unhurried and bolstered by a grunge-lite guitar riff.”

“The terrific ‘Nervous’ is a genre-blurring tune with some alt-rock, pop and grunge rock along with country.”

Maren began writing the songs on Humble Quest in the beginning of the pandemic as a series of major life changes unfolded—new motherhood, an upended career, the death of beloved friend and collaborator Michael Busbee and more, further compounded by lockdown. She felt control over life quickly slipping until she had an epiphany—she was never in control in the first place. This inspired her to reckon with the concept of humility as she thought about how the goal of appearing humble puts artists, especially women, in a box with unrealistic demands. Humble Quest documents Maren’s journey to redefining humility on her own terms as a grounded state of understanding one’s own truth rather than the capacity to appear authentic to others.

Produced by frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters) and written alongside her husband Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels, Jimmy Robbins, Natalie Hemby, Laura Veltz and Jon Green on Busbee’s piano, Humble Quest is Maren’s most genuine collection of songs, tracing her journey to embrace the imperfections in her life through snapshots of her rises and falls, overshares, lullabies, wine-soaked conversations with one old friend and a final goodbye to another one.

MAREN MORRIS LIVE

April 29                                                    Stagecoach                                                 Indio, CA

May 7                                             iHeart Country Festival                                     Austin, TX

May 20                                                   Hangout Fest                                     Gulf Shores, AL

June 9                                              Red Hat Amphitheater                                  Raleigh, NC*

June 10                                                  Rabbit Rabbit                                      Asheville, NC*

June 11                                      Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion                      Portsmouth, VA*

June 16                          Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre              Charlotte, NC*

June 17                                      Riverfront Park Amphitheater                     Wilmington, NC*

June 18                                        Ameris Bank Amphitheatre                              Atlanta, GA*

June 23                                                        CMAC                                     Canandaigua, NY*

June 24                                          KEMBA Live! Outdoor                            Columbus, OH*

June 25                              The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park                Cincinnati, OH*

July 7                                    Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater                    Bridgeport, CT*

July 8                                               Leader Bank Pavilion                                   Boston, MA*

July 9                                     Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion                         Gilford, NH*

July 14                                          TD Pavilion at the Mann                         Philadelphia, PA*

July 15                                               Stage AE Outdoors                                 Pittsburgh, PA*

July 16                                                 Budweiser Stage                                      Toronto, ON*

July 21                                                 Starlight Theatre                              Kansas City, MO*

July 29                                            Radio City Music Hall                             New York, NY†

August 4                                     Merriweather Post Pavilion                          Columbia, MD‡

August 5                                      Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica                           Cleveland, OH‡

August 6                                  Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre                            Detroit, MI‡

August 10                     Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island                Chicago, IL§

August 11                                      Saint Louis Music Park                             St. Louis, MO§

August 12                     TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park         Indianapolis, IN§

August 13                                        BMO Harris Pavilion                              Milwaukee, WI§

August 16                                  Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater                                Vail, CO**

August 18                                                     TBA                                    Salt Lake City, UT**

August 19                      Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden                    Boise, ID**

August 20                        Big Sky Brewing Company Amphitheater              Missoula, MT**

August 23                                  Wine Country Amphitheater                  Walla Walla, WA**

August 26                                 Hayden Homes Amphitheater                              Bend, OR††

August 27                                King County’s Marymoor Park                         Seattle, WA††

August 28                                      McMenamins Edgefield                              Portland, OR**

September 15                                    Santa Barbara Bowl                        Santa Barbara, CA**

September 16                   Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre            San Diego, CA**

September 17                                     The Greek Theatre                                 Berkeley, CA**

September 23                                Arizona Federal Theater                              Phoenix, AZ**

October 13                                          Hollywood Bowl                              Los Angeles, CA†

October 19                                    Red Rocks Amphitheatre                           Morrison, CO**

October 21                                              The Armory                                Minneapolis, MN**

October 28                                       Irving Music Factory                                     Dallas, TX†

December 2                                        Bridgestone Arena                               Nashville, TN‡ ‡

* with Brent Cobb

† with Ruston Kelly

‡ with Joy Oladokun

§ with Natalie Hemby

** with Lone Bellow

†† with Brittney Spencer

‡ ‡ with Brittney Spencer and Ruston Kelly       


For more information, please contact

Carla Sacks, Cami Operé, Reid Kutrow or Asha Goodman at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].