Country & Americana
Linda Martell was the first African-American woman to make the country charts and to appear at the Grand Ole Opry, and helped lay the groundwork for future artists of color in the genre. Despite multiple TV appearances, a dozen appearances at the Opry, and some big hits - including "Color Him Father", "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Bad Case of the Blues" - her 1970 debut album, Color Me Country, would also be her last. Now the album is being remastered for its first vinyl pressing in over half a century. Org Musics reissue was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed on color vinyl at Furnace Record Pressing, exclusively for Record Store Day 2022.
1 Bad Case Of The Blues
2 San Francisco Is A Lonely Town
3 The Wedding Cake
4 Tender Leaves Of Love
5 I Almost Called Your Name
6 Color Him Father
7 There Never Was A Time
8 You're Crying Boy, Crying
9 Old Letter Song
10 Then I'll Be Over You
11 Before The Next Teardrop Falls
2LP set with 28 golden period classic hits including all his signature tunes in a fully authorized, high quality package
Willie is back with his 72ND solo studio album. A full-fledged album of new studio material produced with long-time collaborator Buddy Cannon, it will come on Willies 89th birthday and shows off just how prolific he continues to be as the album includes some of his finest songwriting and performances in years! The 14 tracks include 5 amazing new Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon compositions, new songs from Chris Stapleton & Rodney Crowell (the first single Ill Love You Till The End Of Time) and a cadre of top Nashville songwriters, plus a couple of plum covers by Leonard Cohen (Tower Of Song) and The Beatles (With A Little Help From My Friends) given expert interpretation by Willie.
Bronco is the new album from country artist and songwriter Orville Peck. A consummate storyteller, the country rock inspired Bronco plays upon the horse theme so often found in Orvilles work, but this time with an exploration of freedom, breaking free from that which binds us and all that is wild and untamed. Bronco builds upon and follows Pecks previous album Pony and EP Show Pony, which explored themes of love, loss and loneliness but advances the story arc in a bolder, newer and warmer trajectory.
This is my most impassioned and authentic album to date, says Peck. I was inspired by country rock, 60s & 70s psychedelic, California and even bluegrass with everything being anchored in country. Bronco is all about being unrestrained and the culmination of a year of touring, writing in isolation and going through and ultimately emerging from a challenging personal time.
One of the top emerging artists across all genres of music, Billy Strings has made his most ambitious album to date with Renewal, a 16-song collection that effortlessly positions him as a singular talentone who reveres the history of the acoustic music that inspired him, while pushing it forward into new spaces and audiences through his incredible live shows.
Serving as a reflection of Strings diverse musical influences, Renewal reaches well beyond bluegrass with elements of heavy metal, jam bands, psychedelic music and classic rockeven though its still primarily an acoustic record. The album follows his Grammy Award-winning project, Home, as well as industry recognition ranging from Pollstars Breakthrough Artist of the Pandemic to the International Bluegrass Music Associations Guitar Player of the Year and New Artist of the Year.
Ive learned, youve just got to let the song do its thing, shares Strings. So thats what I try to dowrite songs and let them come out however they do.
In The Country is Furays 9th solo album, standing apart from his collaborations with groundbreaking groups Buffalo Springfield and Poco.
1. Somebody Like You
2. I Hope You Dance
3.Take Me Home, Country Roads
4. She Don't Know She's Beautiful
5. Your Love Amazes Me
6. I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why)
1. Lonesome Town
2. Walkin' In Memphis
3. I'm Already There
4. The River
5. In This Life
6. Chalk
Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release from the acclaimed country music singer/songwriter. The album has 14 new tracks and is Chris's first studio album of new material since 2017. Features the single "Starting Over". Chris has received five Grammy Awards, seven ACM Awards, ten CMA Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards to date and with his first three album he has sold over eight million albums to date, including his debut album Traveller which has sold over four million copies.

Hot on the heels of her recent 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards win for Entertainer of the Year, Miranda Lambert is set to release "Palomino," her ninth solo album, on April 29, 2022.
During a recent interview with Billboard, Lambert gave an update on the progress of her much-anticipated upcoming album, which was mostly penned at her Tennessee farm.
Lambert -- who is now the most-awarded artist in ACM history -- has already released the Jesse Frasure co-written single "If I Was A Cowboy" and the just-premiered, low-key, 70s rock-tinged "Strange" (featuring Dick and Hemby as writers) from the new project. "Palomino"'s other reported influences include acts like Little Feat, Bruce Hornsby, the Range and Emmylou Harris.
The album includes a cover of Mick Jagger's 1993 solo album title single "Wandering Spirit," plus an album track entitled "Music City Queen," which features backing vocals from pop icons the B-52s.
Her first single off the project, "If I Was A Cowboy," is just a "sneak peek" for what's on the horizon for Lambert. "I've got some stuff coming out that is from a really creative time," she said.
MIRANDA LAMBERT / PALOMINO
'Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley' is the 4th installment in Charley Crockett's 'Lil G.L. Presents' series of releases, which focus on heartfelt renditions of songs from some of Charley's biggest musical influences. This newest cover record is packed with songs originally written by greats such as Tom T. Hall, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, George Jones and more. Look out for Charley Crockett in your local independent record store.
Golden Hour follows the massive success of Kaceys critically-acclaimed albums Same Trailer Different Park, Pageant Material and A Very Kacey Christmas. Both Same Trailer Different Park and Pageant Material debuted at #1 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart, with Kacey becoming the first solo female in 5 years to top the chart with a rookie release and only the seventh to do so in Nielsen SoundScans 22-year history. Kacey has won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Album and Best Country Song (Merry Go Round), 2 CMA Awards for New Artist of the Year and Song of the Year (Follow Your Arrow), and an ACM Award for Album of the Year.
LyleLovett returns with his first new album in over 10 years,12th of June, due out on Verve Records May 13th, 2022. The album is a fantastic and eclectic collection of new original songs and beloved interpretations that will please existing fans as well as invite new ones. Immaculately recorded, it highlights the dynamics ofLyleand his Large Band and their singular ability to shift from one genre to the next with uncanny grace and ability. From beautiful acoustic ballads to swinging big band numbers, this record will remind listeners whyLyleis national musical treasure.

Hank Williams, Jr.s sound has always been built on the blues, and his latest album, Rich White Honky Blues, is a sonic testimony to that. The project came together over three hot days in Nashville, recorded live with the finest blues session players in the country at producer Dan Auerbachs legendary studio, Easy Eye Sound. Never one to rest on his laurels, even after 56 studio albums, the acclaimed Country Music Hall of Fame member is still finding new creative ground to explore.
After 10 years in Nashville, 2 No. 1 Country albums and several hundred thousand miles playing shows, Aaron Lewis recognizes the part of America that no one is speaking to or for. FRAYED AT BOTH ENDS is his measure of the wages of being a grown-up in todays world, an American in a nation torn apart and a man seeking love and redemption in the words of his songs.
LP Packaging: 1 Red LP & 1 Blue LP.
This collector's edition features one of Patsy Cline's best albums: Showcase (1961), originally released by the Decca label. The album boasts such important hits as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin' After Midnight, and Three Cigarettes (in an Ashtray). In addition, we have included 2 bonus tracks from the same period. These splendid recordings feature a virtual who's who of great sidemen including impressive guitar legend Grady Martin, bassist Bob Moore, pianist Floyd Cramer and Elvis' original backing group, The Jordanaires, among others.
Country/Bluegrass album, Run, Rose, Run that will be released along with a novel co-written with the famed author, James Patterson, sharing the title Run Rose Run. The 12 songs were inspired by the book storyline and feature Country and Bluegrass artists; Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, The Issacs, and Dailey & Vincent. Dolly & James will be doing book and album promotions together - presenting a unique co-marketing opportunity.
Following the 1973 Whitney Biennial, in which songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen and fellow iconic artist Horace Clifford Cliff Westermann both exhibited, Allen maintained a lively long-distance correspondence and exchange of artworks and music with Westermann, whose singular and highly influential art he admired enormously. In a February 1981 letter to his friend and mentor, written shortly after the late 1980 release of his third album Smokin the Dummy, while he and his family were living in Fresno ,California, Terry explains the genesis of the album title: MY KID BUKKA GOT A CHARLIE MCCARTHY DOLL FOR CHRISTMAS ONE YEAR WHEN HE MADE UP HIS MIND HE WAS GOING TO BE A VENTRILOQUIST. HE IMMEDIATELY PAINTED IT UP TO LOOK LIKE A VAMPIRE ... AND I JUST AS IMMEDIATELY PUT ONA PAIR OF JO HARVEY'S SUNGLASSES AND THE SLEAZIEST JACKET I COULD FIND (western slime) AND SAT FOR FAMILY PHOTOS ... ANYWAY, I BLEW RINGS OF SMOKE ON THE DUMMY AND BUKKA SAID I WAS SMOKIN THE DUMMY. I GUESS IT RANG SOME KIND OF DEMENTED BELL ...
Westermann died shortly after receiving this letter, enclosed with a Smokin the Dummy LP, the minimalist black jacket of whichAllen suggested that Cliff fold into a jaunty cardboard hat if he didnt like the music. That response was unlikely, since Westermann loved Terrys music, calling his debut record Juarez (1975) the finest, most honest and heartfelt piece of music I ever heard.
Recorded at Caldwell Studios in Allens hometown of Lubbock, Texas during the summer of 1980, exactly two years after his masterpiece Lubbock (on everything) (released in 1979) manifested in the same jury-rigged room, the feral follow-up is less conceptually focused but more sonically and stylistically unified than its predecessor. Its also rougher and rowdier, wilder and more wired, and altogether more menacingly rock and roll. This was by design. The Panhandle Mystery Band had only recently coalesced during those 1978 Lubbock sessions, Lloyd Mainess first foray into production. Through 1979, they honed their sound and tightened their arrangements with a series of periodic performances beyond Allens regular art-world circuit, including memorable record release concerts in Lubbock, Chicago, L.A., and Kansas City. Terry sought to harness the high-octane power of this now well-oiled collective engine to overdrive his songs into rawer and rockier off-road territory.
His first album to share top billing with the Panhandle Mystery Band, Dummy documents a ferocious new band in fully telepathic, tornado-fueled flight, refining its caliber, increasing its range, and never looking down. Alongside the stalwart Maines brothersco-producer, guitarist, and all-rounder Lloyd, bassist Kenny, and drummer Donnieand mainstay Richard Bowden (who here contributes not only fiddle but also mandolin, cello, and truck noise theory, the big-rig doppler effect of Lloyds steel on Roll Truck Roll), new addition Jesse Taylor supplies blistering lead guitar, on loan from Joe Ely (who plays harmonica here). Jesses kinetic blues lines and penchant for extreme volumehe was deaf in one ear from a near-fatal car accidentwere instrumental in pushing these recordings into brisker tempos and tougher attitudes. Terry was feverish for several studio days, suffering from a bad flu and sweating through his clothes, which partially explains the literally febrile edge to his performances, rendered largely in a perma-growl. (By this point, he was regularly breaking piano pedals with his heavy-booted stomp.)
Like the album title itself, the songs on Smokin the Dummy ring various demented bells. The tracks rifle through Terrys assorted obsessionsespecially the potential energy and escape of the open road, elevated here to an ecstatic, prayerful pitchand are populated by a cast of crooked characters: truckers, truck-stop waitresses, convicts, cokeheads, speed freaks, greasers, holy rollers, rodeo riders, dancehall cheaters, and sacrificial prairie dogs, sinners seeking some small reprieve, any fugitive moment of grace. In an echo of Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey), which opens Lubbock (on everything), The Heart of California (for Lowell George), another driving song and the first track of Dummy, is dedicated to Terrys recently departed friend, the leader of Little Feat, who covered Allens New Delhi Freight Train before he died.
As on Lubbock, many other songs are older, culled from a decade and a half of songbooks, demos, and work tapes. Allen wrote RedBird, a deceptively simple ditty that combines two longstanding fascinationsNew Orleans and bird symbolismas an art student in L.A. in 1964 and performed it onShindig! the following year. He considered it his first real song worth keeping, and it rates as the personal favorite of many of his oldest friends, including Bruce Nauman. Cocaine Cowboy, composed in 1968, lent its title to a 1974play by Allens colleague George Lewis, starring Terrys wife and collaborator Jo Harvey and featuring his own dada-inspired costume designs, including a giant Gogolesque ambulatory nose wearing a cowboy hat. Roll Truck Roll and The Night Cafe, a diptych of automotive dramas, with counterpoint perspectives on the labor cultures of trucking and food service, both date to 1969. (During this era, Allen was a great enthusiast and denizen of diners, particularly Dennys, and Jo Harvey wrote and performed a play called Counter Angel, based on her oral histories with truck stop waitresses.) The glowering, bruised 1975 rodeo song Helena Montana was inspired by his friend Dave Hickeys fine rodeo number Calgary Snow and Terrys impending participation in The Great American Rodeo exhibition at Forth Worth Art Museum the following year.
The other four songs, like the aforementioned The Heart of California, were of more recent vintage. One of only two covers in Allens catalog (the other is David Byrnes Buck Naked), Whatever Happened to Jesus (and Maybeline)? interpolates Chuck Berrys automotive lament within a skewed gospel song of Allens own devising, a characteristic imbrication of sacred and profane gestures.Allen completed the furiously frayed album closer The Lubbock Tornado (I dont know), about the devastating 1970 tornado (still a painful local memory ten years later), in a hot Texas Tech practice room during the recording sessions. It takes the American vernacular tradition of disaster ballads into sinister and hilarious spaces, implicating governmental, religious, and alien conspiraciesincluding the Lubbock Lightsas possible meteorological motivations. In 1980, as in 2022, we can rationalize any calamity with conspiracy theories.In other words, this is deathless American music. Play it again.
Hank Williams, Jr.s sound has always been built on the blues, and his latest album, Rich White Honky Blues, is a sonic testimony to that. The project came together over three hot days in Nashville, recorded live with the finest blues session players in the country at producer Dan Auerbachs legendary studio, Easy Eye Sound. Never one to rest on his laurels, even after 56 studio albums, the acclaimed Country Music Hall of Fame member is still finding new creative ground to explore.
Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing including insert. The Highwaymen were a country music super-group composed of four of the biggest outlaw country artists: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. The band was active as a group between 1985 and 1995. In 1984, Glen Campbell first played the song 'Highwayman' for Johnny Cash. The four were all together in Switzerland doing a television special and decided that they should do a project together. While the four were recording their first album, Marty Stuart again played the song for Cash, saying it would be perfect for them - four verses, four souls and four of them. Campbell then played the song and the quartet had the name for their new super-group The Highwaymen, the name of their first album, 'Highwayman', and the name of their first single. The four thought it was a perfect name for them because they were always on the road and all four had the image of being outlaws in country music. Both the album and the single eventually reached the top spot in the country music charts. Their remake of Guy Clark's 'Desperados Waiting for a Train' reached the Top 20.
Since 1970, when they met in Allens studio in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, one of songwriter and visual artist Terry Allens great foils and friends was the sometimes cantankerous but always brilliant art critic and writer Dave Hickey, with whom he sparred on topics musical, visual, and beyond (and to whom this reissue is dedicated in memoriam, in the wake of his passing in 2021.) Hickey, a fellow Texan paddling against the currents of the hermetic New York-centric art world, was an accomplished songwriter in his own right, and he and Terry pushed each other to refine their respective practices. In 1983, the two were thick as thievesbrothers in bloodand Hickeys wry but big-hearted presence haunts the history and periphery of Bloodlines, the album Terry released in June of that year. Dave stood among the chorus of singers on the reprise of the title track that ends the record. Terry reprised the album cover concept, a detail of a painting of Jesus carrying a lamb that he found in the gutter outside a Lubbock botnica and manipulated, for Daves 1989 collection of youthful short stories, Prior Convictionsbut with Jacques-Louis Davids 1793 bloody-bathtub painting The Death of Marat as a replacement savior. Hickey wrote the tour de force catalog essay for Allens 1983 solo exhibition Rooms and Stories, which featured, two months before the release of Bloodlines, the premiere of his theater piece Bleeder. Finally, theres Hickeys sardonic quip about the dim commercial prospects of Bloodlines. Buckets of blood and ink were spilled.
Hickeys commercial doubts notwithstanding, critical recognition was not in short demand. In a 1984 review of Bloodlines, the L.A. Herald Examiner called Allen one of the most compelling American songwriters working today ... making the most unique art-pop of our time, elsewhere comparing him not only to Moon Mullican and Jerry Lee Lewis, but also to the Velvet Underground and Philip Glass (probably the first time that unlikely quartet ever appeared together in one sentence). In 1983, against all odds, such sentiments were growing in underground prominence, as Allens records gained a fanatical word-of-mouth followingthey werent easy to find in those days, so sometimes they existed only as a words-in-mouththat began among fellow artists and within the rarefied air of the art world, and then, following the 1979 release of Lubbock (on everything), circulated farther afield, among musicians and fans of outlaw country, a loose (in all ways) sub genre and scene named in part for Hickeys 1974 essay In Defense of the Telecaster Cowboy Outlaws. Allens early audiences included an outsized contingent of potters and bikers, due, respectively, to enthusiastic ceramicist friends and an unexpected endorsement of Smokin the Dummy (1980) in Easy riders magazine. The Rooms and Stories opening reception at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art was packed with leather-clad bikers.
On his manifold fourth album, Allen contemplates kinshipthe ways sex and violence stitch and sever the ties of family, faith, and societywith skewering satire and affection alike.Bloodlines, which compiles thematically related but disparate recordings from miscellaneous sources both theatrical and historical, is itself kin to its predecessor Smokin the Dummy (chronologically and in terms of its Panhandle Mystery Band personnel and its wide-ranging subjects) and to its descendant, 1993s The Silent Majority (Terry Allens Greatest Missed Hits) (which similarly anthologizes stray and orphan songs). Recorded piecemeal at Caldwell Studios in Lubbock, in sessions spanning August 1982 through January 1983, Terry self-released it, like all his previous records, on his own Fate Records imprint. Despite his frustration with the protracted timeline and some anxiety about the correspondingly higher budget, the production onBloodlinescourtesy, once again, of master guitarist Lloyd Mainesis slicker, cleaner, and more dynamic than prior efforts, and it reached a broader audience than ever before. UK label Making Waves reissued it in 1985, facilitating semi-reliable European distribution for the first time as well as a 1986 UK tour, on which the great BJ Cole filled in for Lloyd on pedal steel.
Allen wrote two songs as themes for plays: the Pasadena idyll Oh What a Dangerous Life for Joan Hotchkisss 1982 play Bissie at the Baths and the gospel-coughing hymn Hally Lou for his wife and collaborator Jo Harvey Allens 1983 performance piece of the same name, in which she plays the titular revival preacher. Bloodlines is the first of several albums to revisit selections from Terrys 1975 debutJuarez with full-band arrangements: a comic take on Cantina Carlotta that inhabits the tone-deaf tourists perspective of the hapless narrator, and a terrifying road-rage, burnt-rubber rendition of There Oughta Be a Law About Sunny Southern California featuring Jesse Taylor, in his final Panhandle Mystery Band recording, on asphalt vendetta guitar (Maines Brothers guitarist Cary Banks deftly handles lead guitar elsewhere). The irreverent hellfire-hitchhiker-on-highway ballad Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy (featuring Joe Ely), in which Jesus steals the narrators car and beer for a joyride to the hereafter, remains a fan favorite.Terry wrote the final verses in a Texas Tech practice room the day they recorded it. Manhattan Bluebird, a surprisingly earnest (and unexpectedly moving) lament for the cultural insularity and provincialism of a New Yorker deluded by her own alleged cosmopolitanism, boasts one of Allens most beautiful minor-key melodies. On tour in Belfast in 1996, Allens tour mates feared Our land, a thinly veiled satire of the IRAs hypocrisy amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland, would incite a riot and urged him not to play it. Of course, he didnt listen.
Lloyd Maines wept when Terry first played him the poignant eponymous ode to the arteries of ancestry and landscape, which sounds as ancient and eternal as a psalm. But that didnt stop Lloyd from complaining about having too large a chorus on the album-closing extended version (hes a notorious stickler for tuning and pitch). Twenty-five friends and family members packed the studio that day, including Dave Hickey, Joe and Sharon Ely, and Stubb of BBQ fame. Bloodlines II represents the recorded debuts of the Allens sons Bukka and Bale as well as Lloyds eight-year-old daughter Natalie Maines, later of the (Dixie) Chicksa true testament to the power of blood. In 1998 Lucinda Williams covered it in a spookily spare version on Allens soundtrack for Jane Andersons film Baby Dance, starring Laura Dern and Stockard Channing. As the credits roll, the river runs through the mountains, under the moonlight. Hear the song.
On Paint This Town, Old Crow Medicine Show offer a riveting glimpse into American mythology and the wildly colorful characters who populate it. Co-produced by OCMS and Matt Ross-Spang the album pays homage to everyone from Elvis Presley to Eudora Welty while shedding a bright light on the darker aspects of the countrys legacy. Fueled by Old Crow's freewheeling collision of Americana, old-time music, folk, and rock & roll, Paint This Town turns razor-sharp commentary into rapturous sing-alongs.
Midland likes their music straight-up. Hardcore country, the kind you find in forgotten bars in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, wherever the neon's buzzing, but not quite dead. The Grammy-nominated trio plots a resurgence of their thick harmonies, tart lyrics and steel guitar with The Last Resort: Greetings From. Unfiltered, they want their country 120 proof. Whether it's a cheating song, a heartbreak ballad or a shoot-out-the-lights romper, they savor the emotions with a gusto unseen for decades.
Hailing from Bozeman, MT, Kitchen Dwellers embody the spirit and soul of their home with a sonic palette as expansive as Montanas vistas. The quartetShawn Swain [Mandolin], Torrin Daniels [banjo], Joe Funk [upright bass], and Max Davies [acoustic guitar]twist bluegrass, folk, and rock through a kaleidoscope of homegrown stories, rich mythology, American west wanderlust, and psychedelic hues.
After amassing 5 million-plus streams, selling out shows, and receiving acclaim from Huffington Post, Relix, American Songwriter, and more, the group brings audiences back to Big Sky Country on their third full-length album, Wise River, working with Cory Wong of Vulfpeck as producer.
In the end, Kitchen Dwellers share timeless American stories from the heart of one of its greatest treasures.
When you listen to Wise River, I hope you hear some of the original qualities that made us who we are, but you also recognize aspects that are new and adventurous, Max leaves off. I hope you hear what it sounds like when the four of us are at home and have the space to create something together. This album is really how we sound as a band.
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From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada and recently seen on Austin City Limits, Colter Wall sings songs of the great West. Heralded by icon Steve Earle and touted as a favorite of celebrity Jason Mamoa, the music of Colter Wall has graced the silver screen many times, in films such as Peanut Butter Falcon, Hell or High Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO and Deadwood. Characterized by his distinct, gritty baritone, Colter Walls career has been marked with critical praise from his breakout EP, Imaginary Appalachia to his debut and sophomore records produced by Dave Cobb. Whether headlining music festivals in Norway, or playing legendary stages like Newport Folk Festival, Colter Wall continues to garner attention from the world. On his third full-length release, fans will hear Colter Wall in the producers chair.
Songs My Friends Wrote is an album Ive been threatening to make for years. Its a bunch of tracks that are my versions of a bunch ofsongs my friends wrote. Im fortunate to count a lot of world class songwriters as good pals and I wanted to shine a little light on some of my favourite examples of their work. In most cases Ive picked relatively obscure songs that have always spoken to me, even though many of them wont be so familiar to people. Theres a pretty good chance of a Volume Two, Three and Four eventually, because there were a lot of friends and a lot of songs to choose from. The best part about recording all these tunes was that they reminded me of all the people who I havent been able to hang out with for the past two years because of the plague weve all been dealing with. All of these tunes bring a smile to my face and I hope they do the same for you. - Corb Lund
Maren Morris is releasing her new album, Humble Quest on 25th March via Sony Nashville. The album features lead single, `Circles Around This Town' and 10 other songs from the Grammy-winning superstar.
She began writing the songs on Humble Quest at 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 the lockdown.
Maren found herself reckoning with humility in ways she'd never imagined, as she thought about how the goal of appearing humble puts artists - especially women - in a box with unrealistic demands to keep them small.
It's Morris' first studio album since the release of her 2019 album, Girl.