Humble Quest

Description

Maren began writing the songs on Humble Quest in the beginning of the pandemic as a series of major life changes unfoldednew motherhood, an upended career, the death of beloved friend and collaborator Michael Busbee and more, further compounded by lockdown. She felt control over life quickly slipping until she had a freeing realizationshe was never in control in the first place. Its from this place of personal truth and clarity amid darkness that Marens most genuine songs yet began to flow, creating an important distraction from the times rather than a snapshot of them.

Maren found herself reckoning with humility in ways shed 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. Humble Quest documents Marens journey to redefining humility on her own terms as a grounded state of understanding ones own truth rather than the capacity to appear authentic to others.

Produced by frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters) and written alongside her husband Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels, Jimmy Robbins, Natalie Hemby, Laura Veltz and Jon Green on Busbees piano, Humble Quest finds Maren on a journey to embrace the imperfections in her life through snapshots of her rises and falls, overshares, lullabies, wine-soaked conversations with one old friend and a final goodbye to another one. Am I humble enough now? Maren asks herself sometimes. Maybe. Or maybe I still havent

found it yet. Or maybe, who cares as long as your friends and, most importantly, you know what your heart is all about? But heres to taking the quest to find out. In addition, Maren is nominated for two Grammy awards this year: Best Country Song for Better Than We Found It and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for Chasing After You, the #1, Platinum-certified collaboration with her husband Ryan Hurd.

One of musics brightest stars, Maren released her massively acclaimed, record-shattering album GIRL in 2019, one of countrys most celebrated albums that year which spawned smash hits including the four times Platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated The Bones; and the Platinum- certified #1 title track. Maren won 2021 ACM Awards for Female Artist of the Yearfor the second year in a rowand Song of the Year and three trophies at the 2020 CMA Awards. GIRL arrived three years after Marens breakout, Platinum-certified debut album HERO, for which she won countless accolades including Grammy, ACM and CMA