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  Maren Morris vuelve a sus inicios con The Tree. Hacía tiempo que Maren Morris no sacaba nada tan country. La cantante lanzó ayer The Tree , que recuerda mucho a My Church , su primer single y que se movía entre el country y el gospel .   The Tree repite las claves del éxito de My Church y es casi lo más tradicionalmente country que hemos podido escuchar en años -al menos, en sus singles- . Con su anterior disco, Humble Quest , se pretendía dar a una vuelta a las raíces, al country tradicional, pero tardaba en encontrarse . Ni la title-track ni el single con el que se avanzaba el disco lo eran ( Circles Around This Town ). Y recordando, tampoco era country Girl (single), con pinceladas de R&B, ni la claramente pop The Bones, pese a su categorización repetida como country. Ahora , según Variety , la canción podría dar respuesta al rechazo que ha recibido Maren Morris por posicionarse en temas como la inclusión , los derechos de las personas LGTBIQ+ y el feminismo, posturas

 The nominations for the CMA Awards came out three days ago. The ceremony will take place on November 10th awarding the best country artists, singles and albums of the year (the eligibility period is from July 1,2020 to June 30, 2021). Let's get into the nominations: ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR: This is the biggest award of the night. Eric Church and Chris Stapleton earn a nomination in this category. Both lead the nominations with five each.  Eric Church Luke Combs Miranda Lambert Chris Stapleton Carrie Underwood Church and Stapleton nominations seem reasonable. Both have released projects this year, which could be candidates to 'Album Of The Year'. Luke Combs gets a nomination too. He is one of the biggest country stars nowadays and he has had great chart success with 'Forever After All'.  The only nomination that is a little disappointing for me is Miranda Lambert's. Despite releasing The Marfa Tapes, she's been living by the success of 'Settling down'

 Back in July John Mayer dropped his long-awaited album, Sob Rock.  The project comes three years after the first single (included on the album), New Light , which showed the direction of John Mayer's new music: very synthed and 80s-influenced. This is revealed again  in Last Train Home , with synths that recall Toto's smash hit Africa. To promote this song, Mayer teased it saying 'New music done the old way '. This seems the motto for the album and it really fits together with the sound of it: John Mayer goes back in time, to the 80s to make his new music and looks to the production and arrangements of those times, like in  the Christopher Cross-influenced Shot in the Dark .  The ensemble of 10 tracks contains the three previous singles: the mentioned New Light , the soul-pop  Carry Me Away and I Guess I Just Feel Like, which remained closer to the usual Mayer's sound.  In the remaining seven tracks, John Mayer coquets with other genres, from country and western