Ravinia 2025 Issue 6

However, it wasn’t until a year later with her major record label album de- but, Hero , that Morris became a certified star. Her breakout smash “My Church” was a charging country/soul confession, one in which Morris reveals that music is her true salvation—name-checking country legends Cash and Williams— and proclaiming her conversion with a spiritual fervor. “I was 20 years old, and I was touring in Texas for a decade already, and I didn’t want to be an artist. I just wanted to move to Nashville and write songs for other people. That’s what I did, but I think I just caught that bug again to be on stage. I had something to say. And that’s how that record [ Hero ] fell out,” Morris explained to The Country Note in 2017. Morris’s steadily growing success also raised her reputation among her peers. In MarenMorris offers a taste of Dreamsicle and her anthems of confidence and liberation BYJAMESTURANO RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 7