You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,

tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

Marin Morris is a Grammy-winning, multi-platonom artist.

She's also won multiple country music awards, including CMAs for female vocalists of the

year and single of the year.

But her feelings about the country music industry are kind of complicated as she discusses

in this episode.

She breaks down her song Humble Quest, which is the title track from her third album.

It was produced by Greg Kirsten, who's won the producer of the year-gramming more than

once.

The album came out in March and hit number two on the Billboard Country Chart.

But before Humble Quest was a title, Marin had to figure out what the words meant to her.

That's where the song began.

My name is Marin Morris.

I was driving around Nashville one day, and when I'm driving, especially by myself, it's

where I get a lot of song ideas.

And Humble Quest was one of them that day, and I didn't know what the hell it meant.

I just thought, wow, there's a weird phrase, weird two words sandwiched together, but I

thought it was interesting.

And I was writing that next day or two with my friends, Jimmy Robbins and Laura Belts.

And I just had that title.

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