Margo Price

From poverty to country music stardom, Margo Price’s extraordinary journey is the stuff of stories. Born in Illinois on April 15, 1983, into a farming family ruined by the economic crisis, she learned to play the piano and dropped out of school at age 20 to try her luck in Nashville. She held various jobs, from waitress to dance instructor, and formed several bands with her husband Jeremy Ivey: Secret Handshake, Buffalo Clover, and Margo & the Pricetags, which featured Sturgill Simpson and Kenny Vaughan. After gaining attention in the music industry thanks to an article in Rolling Stone, which included her on its list of new country talents for 2014, Margo Price was signed by Jack White to his label Third Man Records and recorded a promising debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (2016), which was critically acclaimed. Although it lacked a major hit, the album—backed by a few television appearances on Saturday Night Live and Later... with Jools Holland—climbed to number ten on the country charts. A performance at the Glastonbury Festival followed before she returned to the studio to record her second album, All American Made (2017), featuring a duet with Willie Nelson and a track with The McCrary Sisters. Like its predecessor, the album reached number one on the UK country charts. During three concerts at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in May 2018, Margo Price invited Emmylou Harris, Jack White, and Sturgill Simpson to join her on stage. The event was documented in a live album released two years later on Bandcamp, titled Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman. Two months later, in July 2020, Margo Price and her band released their third album, That’s How Rumors Get Started. In 2023, they released the two-part series Strays and Strays II, which took on a more rock-oriented sound. After a tribute to Tom Petty with Mike Campbell in 2024 (“Ways to Be Wicked”), she recorded her sixth album, the eclectic Hard Headed Woman, released in September 2025 featuring Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles. The album earned Margo Price two nominations at the 2026 Grammy Awards, in the categories of Best Traditional Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Love Me Like You Used to Do” with Tyler Childers. In 2026, she continued the Wild at Heart tour and released “Deportee / Oval Room”, a socially conscious single that preceded Days of Unrest, released on July 3 via Loma Vista Recordings. This politically charged mixtape features nine tracks tied to her recent causes—including immigrant rights, prison reform, workers’ rights, and support for the agricultural sector—along with covers of songs by Woody Guthrie, Blaze Foley, and Bob Dylan, as well as guest appearances by Joan Baez, Memphis Mariachi, and Billy Swan.