Margo Price seemed like something of a throwback when she delivered her debut, Midwest Farmer's Daughter, in 2016. Picking up where Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Emmylou Harris left off, Price also recalled singer/songwriters from the dawn of the 1970s: she had an eye for idiosyncratic details and a knack for narratives, qualities that kept her brand of traditionalism from seeming like nostalgia. After Midwest Farmer's Daughter established her as a powerful figure within Americana, she quickly extended her musical reach on 2017's All American Made, moving further in a rock direction with That's How Rumors Get Started, a 2020 album produced by Sturgill Simpson. By the time she released Strays in early 2023, it was clear that Price was as much a rock artist as she was country, and her fusion of the two styles was fresh and unpredictable.