Maren Morris Says Country Music Has ‘A Lot Of Work To Do’
Maren Morris and her husband Ryan Hurd walked the Red Carpet at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards yesterday (4/3), where they were nominated for Best Duo / Group Performance for their duet “Chasing After You,” and they stopped to chat with E! News.
The interviewer for E! complimented Maren on her album Humble Quest and the album’s title track citing the lyrics “I was so nice ’til I woke up / I was polite ’til I spoke up.” She then asked what inspired that line, and Maren responded, saying, “We all were looking at our phones a lot during the pandemic, and it got kind of divided and crazy and hot, and I just and I just felt like saying that especially in country music where I love it there. it’s my home, but we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
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