Margo Price - All American Made

Featuring "Weakness" and "A Little Pain"

"It's tough to find a truer voice than Margo Price." — Vice Noisey

"A singular voice, aching with desperation and resolve." — New York Times Magazine

In 2015, Margo Price was a country underdog just trying to keep enough gas in the tank to get to the next gig, but by the end of 2016, she was one of country music's most celebrated new artists and a ubiquitous presence on late night television and at major festivals around the world.

It's the kind of year most musicians can only dream of, and the arrival of Price's spectacular sophomore album, All American Made, proves that she hasn't taken a moment of it for granted. Delivering on the promise of her debut and then some, the record finds Price planting her flag firmly in the soil as a songwriter who's here for the long haul, one with the chops to hang with the greats she so often finds herself sharing stages with these days.

A prolific writer with a knack for candid self-reflection, Price has never had to look too far for inspiration, and on All American Made, she and her songwriting partner/ husband, Jeremy Ivey, continue to depict the trials of everyday life with un inching honesty, painting poetically plainspoken portraits of men and women just trying to get by.

Highs and lows, long nights and hard days, wild women and cocaine cowboys, politics and sexism, it's all in there, singularly filtered through Price's wry, no-bullshit perspective. Throughout the album, her contemporary take on classic sounds is at once familiar and daring, an infectious blend of Nashville country, Memphis soul, and Texas twang that tips its cap to everyone from Waylon and Willie (who makes a guest appearance) to Loretta and Dolly, all while flipping a middle finger to the cookie-cutter pop that dominates modern country radio. Rich with swirling pedal steel, honky-tonk rhythms, and Price's stop-you-in-your-tracks vocals, All American Made is deeply reverent of tradition even as it challenges country's deeply held conventions.

 

Side 1

Don't Say It

Weakness

A Little Pain

Learning to Lose

Pay Gap

Nowhere Fast

Side 2

Cocaine Cowboys

Wild Women

Don't Say It

Do Right By Me

Loner

Don't Say It

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