Concert Reviews
It sent the message that Morris was prepared to share exactly where she is now and wasn’t much interested in looking back.
If Maren Morris hadn’t built her name on carving a fiercely independent path for herself, it’d be easy to accuse her of simply aping Kacey Musgraves.
Both singers started out as darlings of the country music establishment before getting squeezed out of the good graces of Nashville as their music took more unorthodox turns and they became more outspoken.
And just as Musgraves’s 2022 swing through Boston saw her touring behind a record that chronicled her response to the dissolution of her marriage, so too did Morris bring her own divorce album to the Leader Bank Pavilion on Friday.
That was very nearly all Morris brought, in fact. In the 95 minutes she was onstage, she played the entirety of May’s Dreamsicle (plus a pair of songs from the month-old deluxe edition) and precious little else.
For an artist with four albums under her belt since the popular breakthrough of her 2016 country/gospel smash “My Church,” it sent the message that Morris was prepared to share exactly where she is now and wasn’t much interested in looking back, even if doing so would have resulted in a more generous survey of her full career that would have comfortably taken the concert past the two-hour mark.
Morris arrived on a lavender platform in a glittery, feathery dress that flared like her hair in the fans blowing at her feet, dancing at the outset to the joyfully throbbing keyboards of “Cry In The Car.”
It was a…