Maren Morris Announces Girl Album

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Maren Morris has just announced that her new album will be called Girl after her current single and will be released on March 8.

She posted to Instagram, "My new album GIRL, available March 8th. pre-order tonight at midnight EST."

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She released the album's title song as its first single in January as a power empowerment anthem for women. Maren told Billboard, "Me choosing 'Girl' as the first single, it's about transitioning from someone who felt like she didn't need anybody into someone who very much needs people, and is okay with admitting that. That really frightening vulnerability that I've been trying to avoid, I'm not doing that any longer."

Morris, whose debut album Hero was released in 2016, won a Grammy in 2018 for Best Country Solo Performance for "My Church." She is nominated for four Grammys on Sunday.

Maren's "Girl: The World Tour," is set to start March 9, 2019 in Chicago with Cassadee Pope and RaeLynn as her support acts.

-Nancy Brooks

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Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media GroupEditor

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.