Margo Price

A throwback country singer with a modern view of the world, Margo Price has become one of country’s most respected singer/songwriters. Margo Rae Price was born in 1983, in the western Illinois city of Aledo. She moved to Nashville in 2003 and tried to make it DIY-style for more than a decade, straddling the gap between country and rock in bands with her future husband, Jeremy Ivey. Price released her debut solo album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, in 2016, and its blend of old-school country storytelling—delivered in a smart, sassy soprano—and 21st-century musical (and political) sensibilities thrilled critics. All American Made, which followed in 2017, boasted an expanded palette, bringing funk rhythms and Tex-Mex flourishes, among other stylistic departures, into the mix. Price released two albums in 2020, the live collection Perfectly Imperfect at The Ryman and the Sturgill Simpson-produced That’s How Rumors Get Started; in 2022, she published Maybe We’ll Make It, a chronicle of her early years toiling in Nashville. She followed that with Strays, which includes collaborations with longtime Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and fellow troubadour Sharon Van Etten.