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Maren Morris Performs “The Bones” & Chats on Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Last night Maren Morris was not on the musical guest but took time to chat with Seth Meyers about her Grammy win as well as the poetic justice that comes along with hearing her songs performed on the same television singing competitions that turned her down.

Meyers congratulated Morris on being the most nominated artist at this year’s CMA Awards, which will air in November. “I wasn’t really expecting that, I think like the big one for me this year, because I put a record out, was Album of the Year but, yeah, I didn’t expect to walk away with so that was very cool,” Morris shared about her nominations. “It’s voted on by my peers in Nashville so, I feel like the cool kid.” She also discussed how she got her start, not at county fairs but standing on a bale of hay in the middle of a parking lot, something Meyers laughed at but she says is true.

She laughed looking back at her American Idol audition where after singing her heart out for 8 seconds, her entire group got cut. “Sorry, you have to take the walk of shame, yeah I just remember being 17 and I had to like walk through the ‘walk of shame’ out to the parking lot and find my mom’s car and just cry on the way home with her, but I mean it all worked out,” she explains.

After her chat, Morris changed out of her multi-colored dress into a sleek, turquoise pantsuit to perform her current single “The Bones”. The love song about a strong relationship follows her number one single, the title track to her album “GIRL”.

Morris is bringing her GIRL: The World Tour to the iconic Radio City Music Hall this Friday night with Kassi Ashton and Hailey Whitters. Follow NYCountry Swag on Instagram for exclusive clips from the show.

To keep up with Maren Morris follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

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[Watch] Lady Antebellum Perform ‘Hurt’ on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’

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Lady Antebellum on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Photo by Lloyd Bishop/NBC

Seven-time Grammy award-winning trio, Lady Antebellum returned to Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, performing an emotional rendition of “Hurt” off their number one selling album, Heart Break. This was the group’s first major television appearance since signing with their new label, Big Machine Label Group.

Written by Ben West, Jon Green and Melissa Peirce, “Hurt” is one of only two songs on Heart Break that the trio did not personally pen. In a mini docuseries featured on the band’s Facebook page titled “Heart Break Stories,” they shared how this record came to be the “dark horse” of the album.

“There was a song Charles brought back up that we’d been pitched in the past and I remember hearing it maybe a year ago,” recalls the trio’s Dave Haywood. “We tried it a couple of different ways. At first I was singing the song and it just felt like it didn’t have quite as much vulnerability” added co-lead vocalist Charles Kelley. It wasn’t until the group’s producer, Busbee, combined a selection of string instruments to draw out the song’s true emotion that the trio knew this song was fit for their seventh studio album.

Hillary Scott, lead vocalist, emphasized how emotional this record is for her to sing. Sharing the meaning of “Hurt”, Scott said, “Those moments of when you’re in a relationship a little bit more than the other person was and how hurtful that is.”

While warming up for their Late Night performance backstage, the group shared a video on Instagram of the preparation in their dressing room, rehearsing “Hurt” while Scott was in the hair and makeup chair with Kelley and Haywood on the couch.

Closing out the show, Seth Meyers introduced the performance, “Tonight’s musical guests are a seven-time Grammy winning trio and a 2018 CMA Vocal Group of the Year nominee. Performing “Hurt,” please welcome to the show Lady Antebellum.” Backed by two electric guitars, bass, drums, piano, a cello and Haywood on acoustic guitar, Scott and Kelley stunned with their vocals.

Over the course of their career, Lady Antebellum has accumulated more than 18 million album units and nine #1 hits to their name, both ACM and CMA “Vocal Group of the Year” trophies three years in a row and countless other honors.

Their co-headlining ‘Summer Plays On Tour’ with Darius Rucker hit New York this past summer. Check out our recap of the high-energy show here. The tour wraps up this fall. For dates and more information, visit www.ladyantebellum.com.

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[Watch] Kelsea Ballerini Shines on Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Kelsea Ballerini

Photo Credit: Lloyd Bishop/NBC

Country-Pop princess Kelsea Ballerini is in New York City this week for two high-profile television performances. The first being Late Night with Seth Meyers (Aug 1) where she performed her latest sassy single off of Unapologetically,  “I Hate Love Songs”.

Ballerini stood solo in front of a white piano while the stage was backlit with purple and pink floodlights.  She slowed the song down, articulating every syllable and making sure her meaningful lyrics were heard by the national tv audience. Check out the performance below.

 

 

The grammy-nominated singer will wrap up her NYC trip by headlining ABC’s Good Morning America Summer Concert Series for the first time live from New York’s iconic Central Park on Friday (Aug 3), before getting back on the road.

Currently, Ballerini is opening for Keith Urban on his Graffiti U Tour, New Yorkers can catch the show which hits Barclays Center on October 27th.

 

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