Maren Morris is set to release the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed, ACM, CMA and GRAMMY Award nominated debut album HERO this Friday, March 17, to all digital service providers. HERO Deluxe features three songs that did not appear on the standard version of HERO, which released June 2016. The songs that are new for HERO Deluxe, “Bummin’ Cigarettes,” “Space” and “Company You Keep,” all co-written by Maren, will be familiar to fans who have attended her SOLD OUT headlining HERO Tour 2017 as Maren has performed all three songs each night from the stage.
Adding to the exciting news of the arrival of HERO Deluxe, Morris’ new single, “I Could Use A Love Song,” hits Country Radio airwaves today.
More big news for Maren as she recently announced that she’s taking The HERO Tour 2017, international! While she has played the C2C festival along with some other dates overseas, this is the first time she take her official tour to Europe. Tickets for the international leg of The HERO Tour 2017 go on sale this Friday, March 17, same day HERO Deluxe is available. The acclaimed singer/songwriter will arrive in Dublin on November 12 to start the first of seven dates across the UK, including a stop at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on the November 15. The tour will conclude at Sheffield’s Leadmill on November 21.
Maren Morris shares where the title of her album Hero came from and why she feels it’s so appropriate. (1:38)
“Hero came from the song ‘I Wish I Was,’ that was one of the first songs I wrote that really put this whole album into motion. I was going through a break up at the time, I was actually the person breaking up with someone, and it was a really emotional year with that happening but with that song it’s basically an apology to this person for being kind of the villain in that moment, and it says in the chorus ‘I’m not the hero in the story.’ I think about my life since that song was written, and since that experience was had, and how far I’ve come since that day. And I went from this bad guy to basically being honest with myself and all the people around me and growing up and I feel like that song also started this whole recording process and making this album and I felt like it was appropriate to name it Hero, because the tide turned so much for me since that day. I’ve sort of become my own hero over the last two years and having the guts to make a record, having the guts to go from a songwriter to be an artist. I mean it’s a very scary thing to do. You’re very vulnerable and you’re putting yourself out there for the world to assess, and judge, and critique. So, I feel like Hero just that word coming back to me, and it just felt right to be in this piece of work after that.”
Maren Morris talks about growing as an artist, and the sounds that influenced her album, Hero. (:30)
“One of my favorite things to do is just be in the studio. I think the last few years, just being a songwriter and being in studios to do demos I have learned a lot from the best players in town just, you know, the sounds that I love over the last few years, and also just being a music lover myself I definitely was inspired by a lot of like classic rock, and country, and R&B sounds. We tried to find a happy medium to weave all of these different influences.”