Margo Price

Margo Rae Price (born April 15, 1983) Her songwriting covers topics including parenting, friendship, economic struggle, and hard living.

An advocate for anti-racism, women's rights, gun violence prevention, Price is a board member of Farm Aid, and has helped raise funds and awareness for several other organizations including Oxfam, ACLU, and Noise For Now.

Career Price grew up in the small town of Aledo, Illinois where she played piano and sang in a church choir before studying dance and theater at Northern Illinois University.

In Nashville, Price worked several jobs, including waiting tables, installing and removing residential siding, and teaching children to dance at a YMCA. Price and her husband, guitarist Jeremy Ivey, were part of Secret Handshake, a band that only played political songs before she and Ivey started Buffalo Clover and later formed Margo and the Pricetags, which she says was "supposed to be a supergroup." Fellow Nashville musician Aaron Lee Tasjan calls her "a singular and vital part of this scene, as a thing unto herself." Her debut solo album Midwest Farmer's Daughter was released on Third Man Records on March 25, 2016. The album was recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and was engineered by Matt Ross-Spang. The album was recorded in three days.

On April 9, 2016, Price was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. On May 17, 2016, she made her UK television debut on Later... with Jools Holland. In addition to her appearance on UK television, her tracks have appeared on shows on BBC Radio 6 Music, notably with Steve Lamacq. On October 6, 2016, she appeared on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. On November 16, 2016, she appeared on Charlie Rose, performing "All American Made" (a Buffalo Clover song) and "Hands of Time" from Midwest Farmer's Daughter.

Price has proven to be popular in the UK, with her album reaching number 1 on the UK Country Albums Chart, embarking on UK tours in 2016 and 2017, performing on Later... with Jools Holland and at the Glastonbury Festival as well as garnering three nominations from the UK Americana Awards.

In her concerts, Price plays acoustic guitar and electric guitar and sings. In addition there is a second drum kit on stage, and as part of a coda for one or another of her songs, she plays those drums for a several-minute jam with the rest of the band. On July 27, 2017, Price released a four-track EP titled Weakness, followed on October 20, 2017, by her second album, All American Made.

Price performed as part of the C2C: Country to Country festival in 2018. In December 2018, she received a nomination for Best New Artist at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. On July 10, 2020, she released her third album, That's How Rumors Get Started. On October 4, 2022, Margo released her first memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir, published by University of Texas Press. Her fourth album, Strays, was issued in January 2023. Later that year, Price performed on and produced Jessi Colter's album Edge of Forever.

In 2024, Price collaborated with Mike Campbell (formerly of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) to cover Petty's song "Ways to be Wicked" for the Petty Country Tribute Album. Campbell and Price have previously collaborated on the Dirty Knobs song, "State of Mind", and her own song "Light Me Up". She also worked with Orville Peck on the track "You're an Asshole, I Can't Stand You (And I Want a Divorce)" for his duets album Stampede, released in August 2024.

She released Days of Unrest, an album described as a protest music mixtape, on July 3, 2026. The surprise release in support of migrant workers was themed with mariachi instrumentals named for San Marcos Price's great-uncle, Bobby Fischer, was a songwriter for George Jones, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride, and Reba McEntire.

Discography

Midwest Farmer's Daughter (2016) All American Made (2017) That's How Rumors Get Started (2020) Strays (2023) Strays II (2023) Hard Headed Woman (2025) Days of Unrest (2026)

Awards and nominations + Accolades for Margo Price Year Association Category Nominated work Result 2017 UK Americana Awards International Album of the Year Midwest Farmer's Daughter International Song of the Year "Hands of Time" International Artist of the Year Margo Price American Music Prize Best Debut Album Midwest Farmer's Daughter Americana Music Honors & Awards Artist of the Year Margo Price 2018 Album of the Year All American Made Song of the Year "A Little Pain"

Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2019 Best New Artist Herself 2026 Best Traditional Country Album Hard Headed Woman Best Country Duo/Group Performance "Love Me Like You Used To Do"