Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd split up in 2023, after five years of marriage, but there isn't any animosity between the two, at least not anymore. The former couple share a son, Hayes, who is now five years old, and have found a way to maintain a family unit, even though they are no longer romantically linked.
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"Our stops are really easy, and we'll have family dinners," Morris tells TZR, adding that she and Hurd only live five minutes away from each other.
Morris may not have such an amicable relationship with her former husband if not for the wisdom and mentorship of some of her friends, including Sheryl Crow, who are solo parents.
"It's just so nice to know mothers that have gone through this and made it out the other side," Morris says. "Their kids are happy, and they're friends with their exes, and they have family dinners. I'm getting into that space now, which is so much more peaceful."
Maren Morris's In Country Music
Morris boldly declared in 2023 that she was walking away from country music. But now Morris, who says her Nashville house might be her forever home, says she just doesn't want to be pigeonhole into one genre.
"I'm taking the stuff that is a part of my identity, which is being from the South and growing up on country music," Morris explains. "Country music is not a classroom that you just leave. It's a family, it's a sound, it's a feeling, it's an emotion. That's not what I meant when I was going through that transition. It was about: 'Do I want to put my life's work in the hands of some of these gatekeepers of mainstream country music?'"
Morris's Dreamsicle album is out on Friday, May 9. The record is a combination of all of the sounds Morris likes, without being committed to one style of music.
"[Dreamsicle] is everything from something very folksy, singer-songwriter, stripped-back, to something you can dance to," Morris reveals. "That feels like the '70s to me because it's like Fleetwood Mac to Studio 54."
The multi-facted sound on Dreamsicle will hopefully translate into a tour in support of the record.
"I love some glitter, rhinestones, flash. Love some disco on stage," she reveals.
