When You Reach the End, That’s When You Find the Beginning: MŌRIAH on “Home to Me” and Jimmy

MŌRIAH is outside a Franklin coffee shop when the neighbor who taught her Logic Pro walks through the shot — mid-sentence, mid-sermon on Nashville generosity. That is the right temperature for the conversation Paul Salfen came to have. She sings Aaron Burns’s Jimmy out of the theater. “Home to Me,” written with her friend and producer Bernie Herms, is built for the credits: live strings, a 1940s vocal, and the question James Stewart’s war-and-homecoming season keeps asking. She directed the video herself inside a 1937 community theater two days before the Zoom. She also handed Salfen a Hail Mary she wrote years ago and had forgotten she still knew.