Austin native and Colorado based musician GENE MORRIS is releasing an updated version of one of his favorite originals. Telling the story of the song’s lineage, Morris shares, ““Girl You Play Me Like A Piano” started off as pure piano rock music meant to get the audience ready to hear guitarist Eric Johnson. Eric had asked me to perform in front of his show way back in time in Austin, Texas.
The audience was there to experience the legendary Rock God so I had to beef up my show. I had to be like George Winston on steroids! Christopher Cross also asked me to open his shows, so I had that additional opportunity to tweak my sound.
The words to the track came more recently after honestly seeking therapy for several failed relationships. It turns out that I have always been attracted to narcissistic women, and that was a serious revelation. The words to “Girl You Play Me like A Piano” are really an expression of how I viewed my partners. Allowing a certain level of abuse much like a Goddess abusing a piano.
The good news is I’m healed. My wife is an empath and we can achieve greater things working together. I can now look back on this song with humor and enjoy it.”
GENE MORRIS will release “Girl You Play Me Like A Piano (2025 Version)” digitally on Friday October 10th, 2025.
Multi-instrumentalist GENE MORRIS started playing music at 3 years of age on a ukulele in South Texas, his first song being “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue”. As a young prodigy in a musically inclined family, Morris began receiving piano instruction from his mother until it was discovered that he was actually playing by ear and not sight reading at all.
As an avid fan of classical music and a true creative at heart, Morris formed his first band “The Joyous Cemetery” with friends in Junior High, where he also took up trumpet and violin. An early mentor and collaborator for Gene in his professional career was his friend and yacht rock legend Christopher Cross.
Cross worked with Morris as a producer on Gene’s self-titled debut album as well as his follow up release “Buried Cables”. Austin, Texas guitar legend Eric Johnson was the guitarist on these sessions that were also performed with Tommy Taylor on drumming duties. When Morris found himself as a patriarch of a growing family, he moved his career toward his other passion in coaching competitive tennis, including working with champions Martina Navratilova, Andy Roddick, Mats Wilander and Jimmy Conners as well as serving as private coach to Gov. John Connally.
Never completely losing the music bug, Morris has produced several gospel releases and has continued to perform live at events ranging from Mile High Stadium to many prestigious private events, including performing for NFL Hall Of Famers John Elway and Frank Gifford, and in concert supporting his son Micah Morris’s power-pop band MICAH & THE MIRRORS.
An innovative pioneer of recording technology, Morris invented THE WAVE, a cutting edge microphone that performs well for stringed instruments including violin, viola, cello and has also been used extensively to track guitar, vocals and piano to great effect.
GENE MORRIS currently makes his home in the wide open mountain spaces outside of Denver, Colorado with his wife, famed fine-arts painter Pixie Glore Morris. He is currently planning regional touring dates in the Rocky Mountain states and Southwest US throughout the remainder of the year.
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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gene-morris/1580668146
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