Hard Headed Woman Margo Price

• 1 Prelude {Hard Headed Woman} 00:52
• 2 Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down 02:51
• 3 Red Eye Flight 03:13
• 4 Don’t Wake Me Up 04:12
• 5 Close To You 03:52
• 6 Nowhere Is Where 03:32
• 7 Losing Streak 04:09
• 8 I Just Don’t Give A Damn 03:50
• 9 Keep a Picture 03:18
• 10 Love Me Like You Used To Do 04:27
• 11 Wild At Heart 03:09
• 12 Kissing You Goodbye 02:48
• Total Runtime 40:13

Info for Hard Headed Woman

Margo Price releases her new album "Hard Headed Woman", a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots, and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw. Out August 29th on Loma Vista Recordings, the album 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, Hard Headed Womanmarks 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. Performed in the same room where late friends like John Prine and Loretta Lynn have all cut records, Hard Headed Woman looks forward and back, as it places her amongst her heroes as part of a new legacy. But this is country music as only Margo Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard-headed with a delicate heart.

Beginning with a proclamation that "I don't owe you f*cking sh*t," as Price paraphrases, Hard Headed Woman is about the unshakable instinct to never waver, especially when our values and our future are on the line. In an era of unprecedented uncertainty, that mission is embodied on lead single "Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down," a song that speaks for the overlooked and underserved, the downtrodden and forgotten. While the track's titular phrase originates from a call for resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Price was most inspired by the message that Kris Kristoffersonwhispered to Sinéad O'Connor when she was booed on stage at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert. Co-written with Jeremy Ivey, Kris Kristofferson and Rodney Crowell, one of the early champions who urged Price to create Hard Headed Woman, "Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down" serves as a reminder to always keep fighting for justice and your beliefs. And when the norm is to shut up and sing, and short cuts lie around every corner, Price continues to show how her songwriting packs the most potent punch of all.

"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." (Margo Price)

Margo Price

Margo Price
It only takes Margo Price about twenty-eight seconds to convince you that you're hearing the arrival of a singular new talent. “Hands of Time,” the opener on Midwest Farmer's Daughter (coming Spring 2016 on Third Man Records), is an invitation, a mission statement and a starkly poetic summary of the 32-year old singer's life, all in one knockout, self-penned punch: “When I rolled out of town on the unpaved road, I was fifty-seven dollars from bein' broke . . .”

Throughout Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, Price recalls hardships and heartaches – the loss of her family's farm, the death of her child, problems with men and the bottle. Her voice has that alluring mix of vulnerability and resilience that was once the province of Loretta and Dolly. It is a tour-de-force performance that is vivid, deeply moving and all true.

From the honky tonk comeuppance of “About To Find Out,” to the rockabilly-charged “This Town Gets Around” to the weekend twang of “Hurtin' (On The Bottle)”, Price adds fresh twists to classic Nashville country, with a sound that could’ve made hits in any decade. Meanwhile, the hard-hitting blues grooves of “Four Years of Chances” and “Tennessee Song” push the boundaries further west to Memphis (the album was recorded at Sun Studio).

Price grew up in Aledo, Illinois (pop. 3,612), and after dropping out of college, she moved to Nashville in 2003. She soon met bass player – and future husband – Jeremy Ivey, and formed a band called Buffalo Clover. They self-released three records and built a local following, but it was personal tragedy that brought Price’s calling into even sharper focus. “I lost my firstborn son to a heart ailment,” Price says, “and I was really down and depressed. I was drinking too much. I was definitely lost. I did some things that I regret very much now that resulted in a brush with the law. Thank god I had my friends and family to keep me going. Coming through that, I thought, 'I'm just going to write music that I want to hear.' It was a big turning point.”

After recording the album with her band at Sun Studio and shopping it to a number of Nashville labels, Price reached another critical career moment when a friend brought up Third Man Records and told her, “You're on Jack's radar, he wants to hear the record.” Price says, “I sent it over, and it just felt like home. A good creative space to be involved in, and everyone is so down to earth. It was awesome when I met with Jack. He told me he thought my voice was a breath of fresh air, and that he loved the record.”

As Price looks ahead to a busy 2016, full of touring and promoting Midwest Farmer's Daughter, she reflects on her hopes for what listeners might get from these songs. “I hope that the record helps people get through hard times or depression. That's ultimately what music did for me in my childhood, and especially in my early adult years. It's about being able to connect personally with a song, and hopefully, it makes you feel not so lonely.”

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