MAREN MORRIS TO RELEASE NEW SONG “THE BONES” TOMORROW
“THE BONES” JOINS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SONGS “GIRL” & “COMMON” (FEAT. BRANDI CARLILE)
TO BE AVAILABLE WITH GIRL ALBUM PRE-ORDER
MORRIS TO CELEBRATE BOTH
GIRL ALBUM RELEASE AND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
WITH A PLAZA PERFORMANCE ON NBC’s TODAY
MARCH 8
MORRIS RECEIVES
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
NOMINATION FOR UPCOMING
54TH ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS
Nashville, TN – GRAMMY Award-winning singer/songwriter Maren Morris set to release new song “The Bones” tomorrow for those who pre-order Morris’ forthcoming, fourteen-track, new album GIRL, which is set to release on March 8th, International Women’s Day.
Prior to “The Bones,” those who have pre-ordered GIRL have received “Common” (feat. Brandi Carlile) which became available on February 8th and of course the album’s title track “GIRL” which made history last month when it achieved the highest debut on the Country Streaming Chart by a Female Artist in addition to having the highest weekly streams by a female Country artist with 3.3 million streams after its release on January 17.
Beginning tomorrow, February 22nd, Fans will receive all THREE songs when they pre-order GIRL. With “The Bones” being available, Morris has also made the full track listing for GIRL available. See below for album track listing.
To celebrate the release of her new album GIRL on March 8th, in addition to the day also being International Women’s Day, Morris will take over the plaza at NBC’s TODAY for a special performance to celebrate the special day. More details to come.
Announced earlier this week, Morris is currently nominated for FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR at the 54TH Academy Of Country Music Awards (ACMs) which will broadcast LIVE from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 8:00 PM ET/delayed PT on the Global Television Network. This nomination marks the third time Morris has received the Female Artist of the Year (formerly Female Vocalist of the Year) nomination since her debut in 2016.
Morris’ life from 2016 to 2019, at the very least, can be identified as exciting. The excitement of budding career, falling in love, becoming engaged and then married, all the highs and lows in and around every moment – for GIRL that’s what Morris chose to write about. If the past three years of her life were contained inside a single room with four walls, floor and ceiling, then Morris chose to utilize every square inch of that room to create GIRL.
For GIRL Morris once again tapped GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter/producer busbee, who co-produced Morris’ 2016 debut, HERO, to co-produce 11 of the 14 songs on the album with her, while also adding GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin to produce 3 of the 14 songs.
GIRL track listing
- GIRL
Written by Maren Morris/Sarah Aarons/Greg Kurstin
- The Feels
Written by Maren Morris/Jimmy Robbins/Laura Veltz
- All My Favorite People (feat. Brothers Osborne)
Written by Maren Morris/Ryan Hurd/Mikey Reaves
- A Song for Everything
Written by Maren Morris/Jimmy Robbins/Laura Veltz
- Common (feat. Brandi Carlile)
Written by Maren Morris/Sarah Aarons/Greg Kurstin
- Flavor
Written by Maren Morris/Jimmy Robbins/Laura Veltz
- Make Out With Me
Written by Maren Morris/Julian Bunetta/John Ryan
- Gold Love
Written by Maren Morris/busbee
- Great Ones
Written by Maren Morris/Ryan Hurd/Mikey Reaves
- RSVP
Written by Maren Morris/Natalie Hemby/Jon Randall/Mark Trussell
- To Hell & Back
Written by Maren Morris/Jessie Jo Dillon/Laura Veltz
- The Bones
Written by Maren Morris/Jimmy Robbins/Laura Veltz
- Good Woman
Written by Maren Morris/Kathleen Edwards/Ian Fitchuk
- Shade
Written by Maren Morris/Natalie Hemby/Tyler Johnson
Tracks 2-4, 6-11, 13-14 produced by busbee and Maren Morris
Tracks 1, 5, 12 produced by Greg Kurstin
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About Maren Morris:
Twenty-eight-year-old Columbia Nashville singer/songwriter Maren Morris has quickly established herself with vocal styling’s that reflect her country, folk and pop influences. Armed with sheer talent, honest lyrics and a completely magnetic presence, Morris’ label-debut album, the GOLD-certified HERO, released via Columbia Nashville on June 3, 2016. One week after it was available, HERO entered the Billboard Country Albums chart at No. 1 and No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, which spans across all genres. With this, the Arlington, Texas native became the first artist in the history of Columbia Nashville to open at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Charts with a debut album in the Soundscan era. Morris’ debut single from HERO, “My Church,” set a record at Country radio by having the most chart reporting stations to play a debut single by a country artist with 107 stations the week it hit the airwaves in addition to being certified DOUBLE PLATINUM by the RIAA.
Later in 2016 Morris released her second radio single, “80s Mercedes,” which reached PLATINUM status by the RIAA and Music Canada, just before she tied for the most nominations with FIVE at the 50th Annual CMA Awards, including Album of the Year (HERO), FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR, SINGLE OF THE YEAR (“My Church”), SONG OF THE YEAR (“My Church”) and NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR which she won, marking her first CMA Award. She was tapped by Billboard Magazine to receive the Billboard ‘BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST’ Award at the 11th annual Billboard Women in Music Gala as well as being awarded the Breakthrough Artist Award by the Music Business Association at Music Biz 2017.
Kicking off 2017 Morris took home the GRAMMY for BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE for “My Church” at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards in addition to having the most nominations for a Country music artist with FOUR to her credit including BEST NEW ARTIST, BEST COUNTRY ALBUM (HERO) and BEST COUNTRY SONG (“My Church”). She received SIX nominations for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards including FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR, NEW FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR which she took home the trophy for, ALBUM OF THE YEAR (as artist and producer) for HERO, and SINGLE RECORD OF THE YEAR (as artist and producer) for “My Church.” Morris was also named Radio Disney’s BEST NEW COUNTRY ARTIST at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. In the fall of 2017 Morris received three nominations for the 51st Annual CMA Awards including nominations for FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR as well as MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR and MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR, both for the No. 1 hit song “Craving You” by Thomas Rhett (featuring Maren Morris). In addition, she received her fifth career GRAMMY Award-nomination for BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE (“I Could Use A Love Song”) for the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards. She wrapped 2017 with the conclusion of her first-ever headlining HERO Tour 2017, which also included dates in the U.K.
To begin 2018, Maren notched her first U.S. No. 1 country radio single for the PLATINUM-certified “I Could Use A Love Song,” as both the performer and songwriter, when it topped both the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase Country charts in January 2018. In May 2018 Morris took home the trophy for TOP COUNTRY FEMALE ARTIST at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, marking her first Billboard award. Though rooted deeply in country music, Morris has acquired a global, non-genre specific, fan base. It’s that global fan base’s appetite that Morris began to feed in 2018 by hitting the road with Niall Horan on the Flicker World Tour 2018 which spanned across New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA as well as collaborating with electronic house DJ and producer Zedd, along with electronic duo, Grey, for the smash hit, “The Middle,” which spent SIX weeks at No. 1 at Top 40 Radio and FIVE weeks at No. 1 at Hot AC radio. Morris’ own recent single for Country radio, the sassy fan favorite “Rich,” reached No. 1 on the Country radio charts in Canada. Morris concluded 2018 with the high-note-book-end of receiving FIVE nominations for the upcoming 61st GRAMMY Awards to be held in February 2019. The nominations include RECORD OF THE YEAR [all genre] (“The Middle” – Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey), POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE (“The Middle” – Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey), COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE (“Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”), COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE (“Dear Hate” – Maren Morris feat. Vince Gill) and COUNTRY SONG (“Dear Hate” – Maren Morris feat. Vince Gill). In addition, the songwriters of the Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey-performed massive hit “The Middle” received a nomination for the all genre, general field category, SONG OF THE YEAR.
Maren Morris has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, CBS Sunday Morning, ELLEN, NBC’s The Voice, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Talk, Chelsea, NCIS: New Orleans, Sprout’s Sunny Side Up, CMA Awards, CMT Music Awards, GRAMMY Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Sesame Street and Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve.
