My Church

Morris and Busbee wrote it in early 2015 at his studio in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, and produced it together. Songfacts, quoting CBS Sunday Morning, has her saying she drove to the ocean with the radio on and thought this is like church to me; CBS San Francisco says she brought the idea to Busbee the next day and they wrote it in an hour. It is about music as sanctuary, with references to Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, and Morris told Billboard that it was an escape for her and that country music is her religion in a way. It is in A major at about 76 beats a minute, with gospel harmonies by the McCrary Sisters recorded at Sound Emporium. Rachel McDonald directed the video, filmed outside Austin.

It came out on January 19, 2016, reached 5 on Hot Country Songs and 50 on the Hot 100, is 2x Platinum in the US, and won the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance in 2017 while being nominated for Best Country Song. Rolling Stone placed it 93rd among its 200 greatest country songs in 2024. She performed it on Saturday Night Live on December 10, 2016, and setlist.fm shows it in 335 setlists. Gavin DeGraw covered it in August 2022. We could not tell whether our upload is the official audio or video.