It's been a a little more than a week since Maren Morris played the Hangout Stage at the Hangout Music Festival. If you missed the festival this year, you missed iconic performances by Morris, Post …
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It's been a a little more than a week since Maren Morris played the Hangout Stage at the Hangout Music Festival. If you missed the festival this year, you missed iconic performances by Morris, Post Malone, Fall Out Boy and many others.
Morris hit the stage in the late afternoon on May 20, opening with "Circles Around This Town," the lead single from her new album, "Humble Quest." The show, a warmup for her upcoming headlining tour, was filled with audience sing-a-longs like "My Church" and "The Bones," as well as new songs "I Can't Love You Anymore" and "Background Music." It also showcased the Mick and Keith energy between Morris and her band member, bassist and backup vocalist Annie Clements.
Or maybe Mick and Keith have that Maren/Annie energy?
"I met (Thad) at the audition -- we were both there to audition for the band," Clements said during a stroll around the Hangout Festival grounds before her show with Morris. "The rest of the band was living in Atlanta at the time, and we were the only ones living in Nashville, so we were always riding to the airport and stuff together, and it blossomed from there."
Clements is the daughter of legendary New Orleans guitarist Cranston Clements, who the website All About Jazz called "the most sought-after New Orleans guitarist in the last 30 years." She said New Orleans and its music were highly influential in her life.