Maren Morris

Maren Morris, Lady Antebellum, Brothers Osborne, Jon Pardi Walk Acm Awards Red Carpet

... ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, scheduled to air LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michele Crowe/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Brothers Osborne on the red carpet at THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Francis Specker/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jon Pardi on the red carpet for THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, scheduled to air LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michele Crowe/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Big & Rich on the red carpet at THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, broadcast ...

Chris Stapleton And Maren Morris May Change Your Mind About Country Music

... salvation. It’s followed by the afterburner guitars of “Parachute,” a total pulse-quickener underscored by foot-stompin’ banjo, which in turn gives way to the plaintive acoustic strum of “Whiskey and You,” a song where Stapleton’s voice creaks like an old wooden floor being tread upon by tired feet. This three-song suite encapsulates Stapleton’s appeal: His boots are firmly planted in country orthodoxy, but what’s easy to forget is that country music wasn’t born of a singular sound or sentiment, it was a diverse blend of African-American musical traditions, rural folk and the raw, plainspoken storytelling that unified both. All of this is alive in Stapleton’s catalog, which is capable of resonating with country music originalists who still listen to Conway Twitty chestnuts on AM radio as well as any hipper-than-thou devotees of modern-day roots-rock outliers like Strand of Oaks ...

From Grammy Camp To Grammy Winner

... & Arts. These are external links and will open in a new window. Close share panel. Image copyright Le Ann Mueller. Image caption Maren Morris: "The last 12 months feels like 10 years". This time last year, Maren Morris was a relative unknown, playing a side stage at London's Country 2 Country festival. Then something unexpected happened. "My single My Church hadn't been out for very long," she recalls. "But the crowd already knew all the words. "That was the first documented 'wow' moment for me, hearing that whole crowd sing it back to me.". Fast forward 12 months and Morris is one of country music's biggest new stars. She was named best new artist at the Country Music Awards, won best country song at the Grammys, played on Saturday Night Live and staged her first ever tour. "Everything took off a little ...

Maren Morris Brought The Spirit Of Texas Country To Pop Music At House Of Blues And Gruene Hall

... which there are many. But one thing is beyond dispute: Morris is a Texas country girl, through and through. Her drinkin', cussin', shit-talkin' demeanor on Hero has a distinctive Texas swagger to it, and the fact that she bypassed a stop in Austin to go to Gruene Hall reinforces the point. She works for Sony now, which means she's supposed to play places like House of Blues (which she also did in Houston on Friday), not a 140-year-old bar with half the capacity in some sleepy hamlet. Maren Morris performs at the House of Blues Dallas. Mike Brooks. Playing in Dallas (where, ironically, there were considerably more cowboy hats to be seen), her first hometown gig as a headliner after opening for Keith Urban at American Airlines Center last fall, was still a special occasion. Sporting her now-signature blinged-out gold mic, Morris' full show production was on display at House of Blues, complete with wind machines, backdrop lighting and room to execute all her struts and twirls that punctuated ...

Maren Morris On Her First Headlining Tour & Returning To Texas After Winning A Grammy

... 25, hitting Dallas, Houston and Gruene Hall, Texas' oldest dance hall located in New Braunfels. She'll officially finish out the trek with two final performances at Nashville's Cannery Ballroom on April 4 and 5. Ahead of the weekend, which Morris sees as a "positive and powerful" homecoming, Billboard chatted with the rising country star about her whirlwind success, what she's taken away from it, and how it feels to be a Grammy winner - and taking that title back home. How does it feel to be able to say you’re a Grammy winner. I think just being nominated, getting to go for the first time and having the chance to perform as a new artist on the show is already so many amazing things packed into that week. But getting to accept my first Grammy, and my mom being my date, ever since then I feel. I mean, I was ...

How She Wrote 'how It's Done

... 2017 9:17 PM. Filed Under: Maren Morris. By Heather Stas and Brian Ives. Maren Morris has already won one ACM Award this year: it was announced that she is the winner of Best New Female Vocalist. She’s also up for Best Female Vocalist, Single Record of the Year (for “ My Church “) and Album of the Year (for Hero ). Hero has yielded a pair of hit singles—”My Church” and “’80 s Mercedes”—but the album is filled with great songs, including “How It’s Done.” And, as she recently told __link__, to get the song done, she had to press her producer to let her finish it. Happily, her intuition won the day. “I had this line, ‘Let me show you how it’s done.’ And I wanted it to be sort of a love song, but a sexy love song and not take itself too seriously. But my friend and co-writer Natalie Hemby—she’s amazing—we were downstairs at her publishing house one day and we just had this crappy organ sound going, and we wrote the verse and the hook of the chorus, essentially, and we ran out of time that day. And I was saying I was going to LA next week, and I’m gonna be writing with [producer] busbee, who we’re both friends with, and I was like, ‘Do you mind if I show him this song ...

Kelsea Ballerini, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, More Featured In Off-stage Acm Awards Gallery

... Francis Specker/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Maren Morris backstage during THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Francis Specker/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nicole Kidman and Faith Hill during THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Francis Specker/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Kelsea Ballerini and Kacey Musgraves during THE 52 ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS ...