(audience cheering)
- Well, meet Iman, meet Howie.
- Hi.
- Pleased to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- It's very colorful.
- Like this is what happens when you wash your black pants
with her dress. - Yeah.
(everyone laughing)
- I know, we're coordinated today.
- I love it. I love this dress. It's so cute.
- Thank you. Thanks! - How are you?
- I'm good, how are you?
I've been so excited to come on this show.
- Oh my gosh, me too.
- And congrats on all the Emmy nominations,
like- - Thank you!
(audience applauds)
- Yeah. Thank you.
- What are you bad at? I don't know.
- Oh, many things.
Yep. Just ask my therapist.
So we need to get into something very important though.
So a few weeks back you tweeted, years back, not weeks.
Years back, she tweeted this,
"Guys, I hate to tell you this, but red wine is gross."
(gasps) And I came back to you online and was like,
"#Blasphemy, I mean, maybe you haven't had the right glass
of Pinot Noir is all I'm saying."
Have you changed your mind? Do you like wine at all now?
- I like it. I'm trying to- - Yeah.
- like get cooler with reds, but I'm just like-
- Okay. It can be a real- - a white girl.
- No. Okay, well, I'd like to change your mind.
So I just, Justin? Here he's coming, okay.
- [Howie] Oh wow.
- [Maren] Oh, my goodness.
- [Kelly] I wanna have a chance.
- Justin! - I wanna have a chance.
(audience applauding)
Look at this, check this out.
Now what are we, I'm very excited about this.
What are we letting her taste?
- We are having a 2019 Kosta Browne Pinot Noir
from Duckhorn.
It has enticing aromas of- - Ooh.
- fresh blueberry, blackberry-
- Ooh. - and lilacs,
that envelope the senses.
A layered acidity and a long powerful finish.
- Ooh. - Wow.
- I like the words, I...
- Okay.
- In one ear out the other. - Doesn't he sound like
he knows what he's talking about?
- Okay. Yeah. - Okay.
- Just like- - He sounds like
he knows what he's reading.
- Will it get me drunk?
- Yes!
- Okay. That's all I really care about.
- I mean, people have told me- - Can I have the peanuts?
- "Just shake it around." - Can I have the peanuts?
Can I have the peanuts? - Okay.
- Can I have the-
- Oh my God, for a minute I was like,
"Wait, what?" (laughs) (Maren laughing)
(audience laughing)
- I was like, "Sir?" - Peanuts Noir.
- Thank you. - I'm sorry. (laughing)
- Thank you.
- Okay, wait. Taste it. Just see, I'm just-
- You sniff it, right? - Make sure you sniff it
first, like, smell it as you-
- Like, what do I do?
- It's opened. It's opened, we've opened it for you.
- [Howie] Wow.
- Mmm.
- You're lying. Are you lying? (laughs)
- Okay. This is the only kind of red wine
I can drink is like, Pinot Noirs. because-
- Okay. - they're not gritty, and-
- [Kelly] Yeah! That's why I like 'em.
- and yeah, I mean they'll- - They're not too earthy-
- make your teeth purple, but-
- they do make your... - And there's a hint.
Isn't there a hint of, what is it?
- [Kelly] Blueberry?
- Right.
- Blueberry? - Lilac.
- And some Lilac. - Right.
- Yeah. - Right.
- I love those like, sommelier explanations-
- [Kelly] Oh my god.
- when they, especially red wine,
they get so all about themselves.
- With the hint of...
- They're like "Mmm, tennis balls. It's tennis balls."
(Kelly laughing and clapping)
- Okay. Justin, thank you so much.
- You're very welcome. - Thank you, Justin!
- [Howie] Thank you, Justin.
(audience applauding)
- Okay. So one thing that we definitely agree on is music.
I love your music.
We were talking about your music earlier and it's so good.
And it's so diverse, you're country,
but you also have these hints of like R&B and pop
and like singer-songwriter. - Hint.
- It's very- - With a hint of, you say it.
- With a hint of blueberry and lilac
- Blues-berry. (Howie chuckles)
- Blues-berry. No, but it's really cool.
So I even love her so much,
I asked to record one of her songs called "Second Wind".
It's a really a cool song.
Your new album's called "Humble Quest".
- What does it say on your back?
I've been reading your back.
- What's your back? - I know,
I've been trying to like...
- Wait, what's your back say?
- It's a Patty Griffin quote. (Kelly gasps)
- And I love Patty. - I love Patty!
- I know you...
Okay. So your cover of "Top of the World"?
- I love Patty. - Or no, "Up to the Mountain".
- Oh, if you- - "Up to the Mountain"!
- love Patty, you would love her back. She likes backs.
- [Kelly] Wait, which one is it? Which one?
- It's from her song, "Christina".
- Wow.
- And it was like my second tattoo ever.
I think I was like 19,
and it says, "It's a wondrous world of ridiculous things-
(Kelly gasps) - but nothing so rare as
the love that it brings."
And I, haven't- - Aw.
- I have "The Cat in the Hat" on my inner thigh.
(Kelly laughing) - Oh my God.
(audience laughing)
- I got like really into stick-and-pokes lately. And-
- I don't have- - I've just been like
giving myself tattoos.
- What? - It's terrible, yeah.
- I don't have the stomach for the stick-and-poke.
- It gets numb after two rounds, you know?
- Oh my god, wait, what?
- I'm learning so much about you.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- And I'm like floored.
- Yeah. I don't like, even when I get tattoo-
- You have no interest in me? - Well-
(Kelly and Maren laughing)
- The man eating- - He doesn't like-
- peanuts in the back. - to spoon.
- Well now I'm just like, "Stop talking about my music,
I need to know more about-
- What you're listening to. - the stick-and-pokes."
- Yeah. - Hey, I brought my kit.
We can hang out and-
- "My kit"? (laughs) You have a kit?
- Let's do like a KC, like your initials-
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- Like to commemorate us doing this show for the first time.
- Look at that. - Oh my gosh, I'm not-
- Making friends. - I'm in.
- Love it.
- Yeah, right! - On your head though.
- Yeah, right.
- Gonna get a prison tattoo.
- On your head. - A big BS right now.
- Yeah. - I would.
- Big BS. Wait, I wanna talk about "Humble Quest".
Why'd you name it that?
- I named it "Humble Quest",
'cause I had my son at the beginning of COVID,
like as everything shut down and it's my first kid, really.
And so it was so much uncertainty of like,
I'm bringing a baby into the most chaotic time
of human history right now, or least of our lifetimes.
And then also all my touring got canceled, and-
- Oh yeah. - you know,
for the last two years.
So it was just, I don't know,
like humbling for the worlds to go through these last few.
And for me as someone that's like, I mean,
I hate to say this, in a very self-indulgent industry,
everything being shut down gave me a lot of perspective,
and I didn't feel like I took it for granted before,
because that seems kind of hyperbolic
but I definitely appreciate it even more now.
- Yeah. - Being able to like-
- I think a lot of us- - make music for a living.
- us appreciate things like, yeah.
- Yeah. So- - And you didn't get to tour,
like people are just now touring again.
- Right. - Yeah.
- And so it just felt kind of apropos
to name it "Humble Quest",
because it's like it's an ongoing journey.
It's not gonna end, like the second I go back on stage.
It's gonna be evergreen. So-
- Yeah. - yeah. that's kind of...
- What's your, like I know they're all our babies,
like on our albums,
but what's like your one that you're in love with right now.
Which song?
- Oh my god, okay. The song "Hummingbird",
I wrote the day I found out I was pregnant.
- Aw. - And then,
I had my son at the beginning of 2020,
and then it was just about, like, the line is-
- [Howie] Oh, he's adorable.
- Aw. - Oh god, yeah. That's him.
- Wow. - The back of him.
(Kelly laughing)
- But the line in the chorus is like,
"Hummingbird, now your heart beats in me." And-
- Aw. - by the time
I was recording the song with my producer Greg,
my son was starting to talk.
And so at the top of that song, you hear a little
like voice memo recording of him just saying "Mama".
And so- - Aw.
- I mean- - Oh I love that.
- it's hard to pick one, but like that one, I think I'm,
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get through live,
but yeah. - I hate when I do that.
- He's cute.
- When you write something that you need to
get out and you wanna get out and share
but then you're like,
"Oh, I get to do this for the rest of my life."
- Yeah. - Yeah. And it's like-
- I know. It's real. - tense.
Well Maren's new album is called "Humble Quest".
Go get it everybody. (audience applauding)
and tickets to her US tour are on sale now!