Something for the weekend: Margo Price with Billy Strings & Jesse Welles “Maggie’s Farm” (Live at Farm Aid 40)

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I found a new way to hate Spotify this morning. Woke up, went to the “Release Radar” playlist which appears on Fridays and saw the cover image was The Thrills who are one of my favourite bands of all time and who we reported a while back might have new material on the way. Clicked on the playlist and yes, there it is, a brand new track by The Thrills. Pressed play and…  a completely different and sorry to say much shitter band who have annoyingly called themselves The Thrills. Urgh. And there is no new material on the way as far as we now know. Fake news, with apologies.

Anyway, we leave you this week with a new live recording from Margo Price who after delivering show-stopping performances of the song at Farm Aid with Billy Strings and Jesse Welles, and Newport Folk Festival with John C. Reilly,  has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Maggie’s Farm’, out now on Loma Vista Recordings. Having first debuted 60 years ago in 1965, as part of Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home”, Price repurposes the track’s message for the present day. Howling into the height of her vocal range, she and her band tear through a barn-burning shuffle of blistering guitar licks, pedal steel, screaming harmonica solos and countrified rock. It’ll wake you up anyway.

Take care everyone, don’t forget Palestine and keep fighting the fascists including thuggish football hooligans who chant racist slogans against Arabs. See you next week.