Margo Price

From poverty to country star status, Margo Price's unusual destiny is the stuff of stories. Born in Illinois on April 15, 1983 into a farm family ruined by the recession, she learned to play the piano and dropped out of school at 20 to try her luck in Nashville. She held a variety of jobs, from waitress to dance instructor, and formed several bands with her husband Jeremy Ivey: Secret Handshake, Buffalo Clover and Margo & the Pricetags, featuring Sturgill Simpson and Kenny Vaughan. Noticed in the professional world thanks to an article in Rolling Stone magazine, which included her in its list of new country talent for 2014, Margo Price was signed by Jack White for his Third Man Records label and recorded a promising debut album, Midwest Farmer's Daughter (2016), acclaimed by the critics. With no major hits but a few TV appearances on Saturday Night Live and Later... with Jools Holland, it climbed to number ten on the country charts. A performance at the Glastonbury Festival followed, before a return to the studio for the second album All American Made (2017), featuring a duet with Willie Nelson and a track with The McCrary Sisters. Like its predecessor, the album reaches number one in the UK country charts. During three concerts at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in May 2018, Margo Price invites Emmylou Harris, Jack White and Sturgill Simpson. The event is chronicled in a live album released two years later on Bandcamp, under the title 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, the diptych Strays and Strays II is released in a more rock vein. After a Tom Petty tribute with Mike Campbell in 2024 ("Ways to Be Wicked"), she records her sixth album, the varied Hard Headed Woman, released in September 2025 with contributions from Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles.