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Strays

Margo Price

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She may wear nudie suits and cowgirl boots, but Margo Price cannot be pinned down as "country." Like her old pal Sturgill Simpson, she works hard for her outsider label—and on her fourth album, she's so far outside she's in a whole other genre. Having shed the Loretta Lynn drag of her Nashville breakthrough, 2016's Midwest Farmer's Daughter, Price is letting herself get weird, and it's awesome. Strays was recorded in Topanga Canyon and partly written while Price and husband/multi-instrumentalist band member Jeremy Ivey were tripping on mushrooms. Opener "Been to the Mountain" rides a deep and heavy bad-ass groove with Price giving a three-minute recap of her 2022 memoir, Maybe We'll Make It: "I've been a child and I've been a mother … Used to be your waitress but now I'm a consumer/ I've been on food stamps, I've been outta my mind/ I've rolled in dirty dollars, stood in the welfare line … I've been called every name in the book, honey/ Come on, take your best shot." (That last line is delivered with heavy reverb and a triumphant wail.) "Light Me Up" starts off on a tender '70s singer-songwriter vibe before jangling into a Heart-like psych-out with fiery guitar—courtesy of the Heartbreakers' Mike Wilson. Wilson's late musical partner Tom Petty is like the friendly ghost of the album, which seemingly takes inspiration from his Wildflowers era as well as his and Wilson's old band Mudcrutch. Sharon Van Etten backs up Price on head trip "Radio," with Price issuing a plea for taking a break from the world that could also double as a sexy come-on: "Only thing I have on is the radio." Piano ballad "County Road" channels Linda Ronstadt's late '70s band with a canyon dust-and-sun squint, and "Time Machine" twinkles with a Rickie Lee Jones sweetheart groove—Price pushing into her upper register as producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) sets the mood with Moog bass. Lucius' Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig lend trademark high-class vocals to the Revolver psych-pop of "Anytime You Call." As always, Price's lyrics are so incisive as to be capable of cutting to the bone. "Lydia" is a haunting, almost spoken-word observation on the horrors and hardships of living on the fringes and making decisions dictated by poverty and substance abuse, and how much harder things are once women's rights are stripped away—like Go Ask Alice in a song. "At the clinic, wonderin' what your face would be like/ Mascara bleedin' to my eyes/ Tied like a dog on a chain with a midlife crisis and an ex-husband/ Sneaking a Marlboro Ultra Light I stole from a nurse out there in the alley/ Halfway home is where the heart is and I'm halfway home," she speak-sings. And the bluesy strutter "Change of Heart" delivers a kiss-off as dark as anything by Richard and Linda Thompson: "Don't worry about the war/ Nobody's winning … I never loved you and I always will/ Have a change of heart/ I've had a change of heart." © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz

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1
Been To The Mountain
00:05:27

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Bells, Co-Producer, Tambourine, Vocals, Maracas, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Grant Milliken, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anita Agoyan-Miu, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

2
Light Me Up
00:05:04

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Campbell, Electric Guitar, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Percussion, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Grant Milliken, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anita Agoyan-Miu, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

3
Radio
00:02:49

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Timpani, Moog Bass, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sharon Van Etten, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Dexter Green, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Margo Price, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Co-Producer, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, Drum Machine, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Trentacosti, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

4
Change Of Heart
00:04:03

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Percussion, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Parker Cason, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

5
County Road
00:06:07

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Composer, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ny Oh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Grant Milliken, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anita Agoyan-Miu, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

6
Time Machine
00:02:45

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Bells, Piano, Moog Bass, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Dexter Green, Recording Engineer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dillon Napier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Celesta, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Trentacosti, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christopher Houston Denny, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

7
Hell In The Heartland
00:04:28

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Castanets, Acoustic Guitar, Tambourine, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lily Elise, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Lawrence Rothman, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Margo Price, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Liv Painter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Louis Rememapp, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anna Bowery, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

8
Anytime You Call
00:03:48

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Percussion, Moog Bass, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Dexter Green, Producer, Drums, Co-Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Lucius, FeaturedArtist - Jess Wolfe, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Holly Laessig, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Percussion, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

9
Lydia
00:06:11

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Harris, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Zach Dellinger, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Jacob Braun, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Grant, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Parker Cason, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Frankie Fingers, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bullbrook, Violin, AssociatedPerformer

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

10
Landfill
00:05:33

Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Wilson, Producer, Mixer, Percussion, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jamie Davis, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Munoz, Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Pedal Steel, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Black, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Price, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dillon Napier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Micah Hulscher, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Ivey, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ny Oh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Grant Milliken, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anita Agoyan-Miu, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2022 Margo Price.

Album review

She may wear nudie suits and cowgirl boots, but Margo Price cannot be pinned down as "country." Like her old pal Sturgill Simpson, she works hard for her outsider label—and on her fourth album, she's so far outside she's in a whole other genre. Having shed the Loretta Lynn drag of her Nashville breakthrough, 2016's Midwest Farmer's Daughter, Price is letting herself get weird, and it's awesome. Strays was recorded in Topanga Canyon and partly written while Price and husband/multi-instrumentalist band member Jeremy Ivey were tripping on mushrooms. Opener "Been to the Mountain" rides a deep and heavy bad-ass groove with Price giving a three-minute recap of her 2022 memoir, Maybe We'll Make It: "I've been a child and I've been a mother … Used to be your waitress but now I'm a consumer/ I've been on food stamps, I've been outta my mind/ I've rolled in dirty dollars, stood in the welfare line … I've been called every name in the book, honey/ Come on, take your best shot." (That last line is delivered with heavy reverb and a triumphant wail.) "Light Me Up" starts off on a tender '70s singer-songwriter vibe before jangling into a Heart-like psych-out with fiery guitar—courtesy of the Heartbreakers' Mike Wilson. Wilson's late musical partner Tom Petty is like the friendly ghost of the album, which seemingly takes inspiration from his Wildflowers era as well as his and Wilson's old band Mudcrutch. Sharon Van Etten backs up Price on head trip "Radio," with Price issuing a plea for taking a break from the world that could also double as a sexy come-on: "Only thing I have on is the radio." Piano ballad "County Road" channels Linda Ronstadt's late '70s band with a canyon dust-and-sun squint, and "Time Machine" twinkles with a Rickie Lee Jones sweetheart groove—Price pushing into her upper register as producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) sets the mood with Moog bass. Lucius' Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig lend trademark high-class vocals to the Revolver psych-pop of "Anytime You Call." As always, Price's lyrics are so incisive as to be capable of cutting to the bone. "Lydia" is a haunting, almost spoken-word observation on the horrors and hardships of living on the fringes and making decisions dictated by poverty and substance abuse, and how much harder things are once women's rights are stripped away—like Go Ask Alice in a song. "At the clinic, wonderin' what your face would be like/ Mascara bleedin' to my eyes/ Tied like a dog on a chain with a midlife crisis and an ex-husband/ Sneaking a Marlboro Ultra Light I stole from a nurse out there in the alley/ Halfway home is where the heart is and I'm halfway home," she speak-sings. And the bluesy strutter "Change of Heart" delivers a kiss-off as dark as anything by Richard and Linda Thompson: "Don't worry about the war/ Nobody's winning … I never loved you and I always will/ Have a change of heart/ I've had a change of heart." © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz

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