Maren MorrisCould The Highwomen be planning a full-blown reunion? The group has surprise released a live album of their most recent performance, Live at the Gorge 2023.
Made up of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby, the performance took place in June 2023 during Carlile’s annual Echoes Through the Canyon weekend at the Gorge Amphitheatre.
For their set, the group performed each track from their 2019 self-titled debut and unveiled eleven covers that included Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain and Bob Dylan’s Hurricane, to name a few. Plus, they were joined on stage by Tanya Tucker, Allison Russell, and Brittney Spencer.
Accompanying the album is a live video of Redesigning Women, which you can watch below. The album, available only digitally, can be streamed below and purchased on the country supergroup’s website.
Revisiting the concert, The Highwomen said of the surprise live album:
We weren’t planning on releasing a live album, but in preparing for our upcoming reunion, we recently listened back to The Gorge, and whatever happened out there that night came rushing right back…the adrenaline, the near misses, the harmonies locking in at exactly the right second, and the sound of thousands of people singing like they meant every word with their whole chest.
Adding that the recordings sound “wild, emotional, electric, human, and exactly how that night felt,” the group discussed the connection and community they felt that night and upon revisiting it.
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“Maybe that matters right now because when the world feels like it’s coming apart at the seams, music still gives us a place to meet each other in the middle of it all, to sing too loud, cry in public, laugh at dumb shit, hold each other upright, and walk back out into the world feeling a little less alone a little more whole and a little more ready to keep fighting for each other,” the quartet continued.
“Just us, the crowd, the canyon, and whatever that feeling was. We sure hope you feel it.”
The Highwomen are set to reunite this weekend (30 May) as part of Echoes Through the Canyon, a line-up which also features Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, and Brittney Spencer. The group will also perform together again in July during Morris’ Red Rocks concert.
