Maren Morris had a “magical” experience working on The Highwomen’s first album more than five years ago — and would happily create another when the timing is right.
“I mean, I would love to,” Morris, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, October 3, at the 2025 Austin City Limits music festival when asked about the possibility of reuniting with the supergroup, which also includes Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires.
Morris added, “We always talk about it,” admitting that the biggest challenge is navigating everyone’s busy schedules. “Brandi lives in Seattle. Amanda just put her record [Nobody’s Girl] out last week. I’m still touring [for Dreamsicle]. Natalie’s writing a ton for other artists,” she explained. “[But] once we can all get a date on the books in the studio, I feel like we would knock an album out in two days because we have so much pent up.”
Though plenty of time has passed since they first worked together, the friendships haven’t faded. “I miss them dearly,” Morris told Us. “And that is one of the most magical projects I’ve ever been a part of.”
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The Highwomen — named in homage to the legendary country group featuring Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and more — released their self-titled album in 2019. Shires, 43, initially came up with the idea years prior when she noticed how few female artists were being played on country radio.
“It’s not anti-establishment,” Carlile, 44, told Rolling Stone in 2019 before the album dropped. “And it’s not a band. It’s a movement. The Highwomen is not just four people. It’s not a compilation disc.”
At the time of their formation, Morris was promoting her own album Girl, but she saw no conflict with joining the project.
“I think a lot of people on my team probably thought I was insane to join a band right in the middle of my own album cycle and tour,” she said in the same Rolling Stone interview. “But when Brandi called to ask me if I wanted to be a Highwoman, and that these were going to be the people involved, I couldn’t say no. I’ve also been touting the same message with Girl; it’s high time for more female perspectives in the country genre.”
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Morris isn’t the only one with hopes of a new record being on the horizon. Last month, Shires revealed on Rolling Stone‘s “Nashville Now” podcast that the band — which has also featured guests like Sheryl Crow, Yola and Brittney Spencer through the years — could be making their way to the studio soon enough.
“Me and Brandi and Maren and Brittney have talked about writing this winter,” Shires said. “All signs point to ‘yes,’ if I was the Magic 8-Ball.”
For Morris, collaboration comes easily. On her fourth solo record, Dreamsicle, she worked alongside Julia Michaels, Jack Antonoff and Naomi McPherson, among others. She told Us on Friday that the variety of perspectives on the album helps it sound “diverse” while still having a sense of “cohesion.”
“I think that [creative] freedom is something that I’ve always worked hard to attain,” she explained. “And I’m so inspired by any kind of music. It doesn’t have to be what I make. … I think that’s why there’s so many influences of genre on my albums. This one’s probably the most ambitious, but I think all my records have kind of toed this line of multi-sound, multi-genre.”
Throughout her tour, which kicked off in May, Morris has enjoyed watching fans connect to the new songs in person, naming “Lemonade” and “Push Me Over” as standout moments.
“Also ‘Dreamsicle,’ the title track,” she told Us. “It’s so vulnerable and a quiet moment of the show, but people are just so locked in and respectful and really listening to it.”
