Death, Sex & Money - Margo Price After Cheating and Drinking
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The country musician talks candidly about loss—of a generational family farm and the death of her newborn—and coping with infidelity and an abusive relationship with alcohol.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. |
| 0:01.6 | I want to let you know that in this episode, |
| 0:03.5 | I talk with Margo Price about losing a child soon after childbirth. |
| 0:07.9 | If that's not something you want to listen to right now, |
| 0:10.3 | you might want to skip this one. |
| 0:12.6 | I thought, you know, this is like, this is karma, and I deserve this. |
| 0:18.6 | But he doesn't. |
| 0:20.7 | My son didn't. |
| 0:25.6 | This is death, sex, and money. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:34.2 | and need to talk about more. I'm Anasale. Margo Price was nominated for a |
| 0:48.1 | best new artist Grammy in 2018, 15 years after she moved to Nashville when she was 20. |
| 0:54.8 | This year, Margot turns 40, and her new album starts with the song, Ben to the Mountain, |
| 1:00.7 | where she writes about the jagged path of her musical career and her different personas. |
| 1:06.4 | They've included a classic country songstress, the female lead of an all-dud rock band, and a solo artist |
| 1:12.8 | who turns up her own amp. |
| 1:14.7 | Used to be a lover, queen and drifting, a cowboy devil, a bright and a boxer, a pilgrim and a |
| 1:24.6 | feet, but it was me underneath. |
| 1:29.4 | I just know who I'm not. |
| 1:31.5 | Then that's all right with me. |
| 1:32.7 | All right. |
| 1:40.2 | When Margot and I spoke, she was at her home outside Nashville, where she lives with her kids and her husband, musician Jeremy Ivy. |
| 1:42.7 | It was a rare moment of quiet. |
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