The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for years to break through in the country-music scene, she found success with her 2016 release “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter,” widely considered one of the best albums of the year. Since then, she’s established herself as one of music’s new stars, an artist in the outlaw-country lineage—and a free spirit not afraid to speak frankly. Price talks with the staff writer Emily Nussbaum, who is well known as a television critic and is also a fan of country music, about her fourth studio album, “Strays.” It was released earlier this year, around the same time as her memoir, “Maybe We’ll Make It,” which discusses her years of struggle before establishing herself as an artist. They also discussed Price’s drug use—she speaks proudly of using psilocybin and her stance in favor of gun control in the wake of a school shooting in Nashville.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:13.7	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:17.1	Let's go back to Tennessee, you and me.
0:23.4	Let's go back, Tennessee.
0:27.7	Let's go back.
0:30.5	Margot Price moved to Nashville from Illinois at the age of 19.
0:35.4	After struggling to make it for years,
0:41.8	she broke through in 2016 with the album Midwest Farmer's Daughter.
0:49.8	It's a raw, kind of rootsy album that established Price as an artist to watch.
0:55.3	She works somewhere in the lineage of the outlaw country artists of the 1970s.
1:01.4	Price recently put out a new album called Strays with her husband and her collaborator, Jeremy Ivy. She's also published a memoir called Maybe We'll Make It.
1:05.6	Price spoke about a week ago with the New Yorker's Emily Newsbaum, best known as a television
1:10.4	critic, but also a big fan
1:12.7	of country music. There had been emails back and forth to set up the interview, but on the day that
1:18.2	Emily and Margot finally sat down to talk, Margot had just been at a vigil for the victims of a mass
1:24.5	shooting in Nashville. I want to start with what's been going on this week.
1:29.9	This has been a terrible week for the city
1:31.7	with the tragic shooting at the Covenant School.
1:34.8	And I know that this morning you sang Bob Dylan's tears of rage,
1:39.2	a cappella, at the Nashville Remembers Vigil.
1:42.5	And I wondered why that song,
1:44.0	and can you tell me a little bit about the occasion?
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