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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2020 23:52:34 GMT
Maren Morris - Better Than We Found It (Official Video) A portion of proceeds from “Better Than We Found It” will be donated to the Black Women’s Health Imperative. Go to www.bwhi.org to donate.  Country-pop star Maren Morris has taken a strong stand with a surprise release that she calls a “protest song,” “Better Than We Found It.” An accompanying video, also dropped late Thursday night. addresses the issues of immigration and police shootings of Black men, as they’ve unfolded in Nashville. “I wanted to write something to address exactly how I feel right now, and this came together pretty quickly,” Morris said in a statement. “It’s a protest song. It’s the most American thing to protest, and protest songs have been so embedded in American culture: Bob Dylan, Nina Simone. I think the world right now is sort of in a perpetual mourning period, and I wanted to have a song that had weight but also had hope.” The music video, directed by Gabrielle Woodland, depicts the plight of the families of two young men in Nashville — one a Dreamer, Gustavo Flowers, who has a notice to appear in court before ICE, and the other a young Black man, Daniel Hambrick, shot to death by police in 2018. After showing footage of Black Lives Matter marches, the video ends with a more than minute-long letter Morris wrote to her young son, Hayes, who she says was “born the year the world stopped turning.” |
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 3:47:51 GMT
Maren Morris: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
145,236 views Apr 4, 2022 The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.
Ann Powers | April 4, 2022
Maren Morris is the country artist most gracefully poised at the spot where future thinking meets time-honored ways. Consider the setting for her second Tiny Desk performance — this time a (home) Concert — and the first filmed in her hometown of Nashville, Tenn. Morris and her band offer (mostly) songs from her new album, Humble Quest, in a luxuriously curtained corner of the city's new Soho House, the private club that typifies 21st century luxe leisure — this one housed in the May Hosiery building, a landmark harkening back to Music City's industrial past.
The four songs in this set likewise apply her highly attuned sensibility to classic song subjects: the value of hard work, the intimacy of marriage and the rejuvenating power of a great song. From the low-riding "Circles Around This Town" to "The Bones," the chart-topping ballad that secured her place on wedding playlists forevermore, Morris delivers her songs with clear-eyed passion as the band — all behind-the-scenes Nashville stars, including Side Piece member Annie Clements on bass and background vocals — locks in to her every cue. Humble Quest is, for Morris, a triumph in a personal key, and this mini-concert shows just why she's both revolutionary and relatable.
SET LIST
"Circles Around This Town"
"I Can't Love You Anymore"
"Background Music"
"The Bones"
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