![]() ![]() In 2018 - upon getting pregnant and coming off the road - Price needed to keep her mind busy.ĭespite not having a book deal, she and her husband, fellow musician Jeremy Ivey, would take their son to school, go to an East Nashville coffee shop and write from "about 8 in the morning until maybe noon or 1. My husband would say things like, 'You haven't written a song in months.' I was like, 'I'm an author now.'" Price Finished Her Memoir Through Routine "I did kind of lose myself in it for a moment. "They definitely ended up kind of influencing each other, because I was working on them in tandem," Price said. Her Album And Memoir Influenced Each OtherĮarly in the conversation, Finn inquired about the dynamic between a book and an album, as the publishing process typically takes much longer than the writing and recording process. Here are six takeaways about this GRAMMY-nominated master of words and melodies. Together, they discussed the counterbalances of Strays with Maybe We'll Make It, and her wild, tragic, joyful story that's contained in both the result was a window into Price's psychology. Īt a recent edition of the GRAMMY Museum's "A New York Evening With…" interview and performance series at the Greene Space at WNYC and WQXR in New York City, Price sat down with moderator Craig Finn of the Hold Steady. In 2023, she released another excellent album, the Jonathan Wilson -produced Strays, which she's promoting alongside Maybe We'll Make It. That streak continued with 2020's That's How Rumors Get Started, produced by Sturgill Simpson. She continued her winning streak in 2017 with All American Made the following year, she was nominated for a GRAMMY for Best New Artist. ![]() But Price was stubborn and persistent her ascent began with her exceptional 2016 solo debut Midwest Farmer's Daughter, released on Third Man Records. "Just like her songs.")Īs she details in the book, the masterful Nashville singer/songwriter knocked around town for more than a decade in search of a record deal, and dealt with poverty, alcohol abuse and numberless other calamities. ("Margo's book hits you right in the gut - and the heart," he wrote. This attribute - married to sterling craft - has launched Price into the stratosphere none other than Willie Nelson provided a blurb for Maybe We'll Make It 's front cover. They're gonna say I'm a horrible mother, that I'm a drunk."īut then, there's that word again: "I also that people are going to appreciate my vulnerability." "I know what people do on the internet, and I was imagining the names they were gonna call me. "I was having panic attacks, thinking about all of this being out there," Price told The Guardian. Because before she released her 2022 memoir, Maybe We'll Make It, she was in a state of abject terror over how her family would react to her confessions therein. The adjective "vulnerable" is something of a music press cliché. ![]()
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