Margo Price has announced the release of new album “Hard Headed Woman”, described as “a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw”, which lands on August 29th via Loma Vista, Recordings. The album, the press release notes, “captures Margo Price at her wisest, funniest, toughest and most vulnerable. It is a promise and a manifesto, a tribute to both a city and genre, a defiant cry for individuality and deep exploration of America, doubling down not only on herself but what she has always loved: classic songs written from the intellect and the gut, timeless and urgent all at once.”
Reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang, recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, and featuring duets with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles, it’s the first album that Price has made in Nashville, a town she has called home for more than 20 years, and vitally helped to transform, creating a lane where independent and insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream.
Beginning with a proclamation that “I don’t owe you fucking shit,” as Price paraphrases, the album is described as being focused on the unshakable instinct to never waver, especially when our values and our future are on the line as, well, see this week’s news. That mission is embodied on lead single ‘Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down,’ which you can hear below,
“I always hope to do like Johnny Cash did, which is speak up for the common man and woman. But there have been so many threats and anger and vitriol over the years when I am only coming from a place of love. So, I made the decision to rebuild everything from the ground up. I hope this album inspires people to be fearless and take chances and just be unabashedly themselves in a culture that tries as hard as it can to beat us into all being the same,” Price comments.
While previous album, “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter”, was about her journey from childhood to Nashville, “Hard Headed Woman” traces her battle since – from dive bars to tour buses, through parenthood and marriage, scrutiny and sacrifice in a town that prizes uniformity and the bottom line. In addition to collaborations with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles, the album features co-writes with Rodney Crowell and a Waylon Jennings song that his widow, Jessi Colter, urged Price to sing.
Backed by a brand new live band and armed with her newly-launched, signature Gibson J-45 guitar, Margo Price will bring her music on the road this summer and autumn, including a headline show at Scala in London on Wednesday, June 18th.
Hard Headed Woman Tracklist:
Prelude {Hard Headed Woman}
Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down
Red Eye Flight
Don’t Wake Me Up (feat. Jesse Welles)
Close To You
Nowhere Is Where
Losing Streak
I Just Don’t Give a Damn
Keep A Picture
Love Me Like You Used To Do (feat. Tyler Childers)
Wild At Heart
Kissing You Goodbye
