MARGO PRICE & COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Factory Theatre, October 16 Seriously? As Margo Price and her (poker-faced, long-haired, adaptable) band walked off for good this night, a man next to me turned to a friend and exclaimed loudly, “now THAT was a show”. Really? There’d been no lights of any note, nor screens or graphics. Dancers - bar one woman on the floor giving it some tailfeather shaking late in the night – didn’t crowd out Price, who was disinclined to swing out over th

Earlier this week Margo Price, on her way for gigs in October, explained why Emmylou Harris is a good soul, why Leonard Cohen the author mattered, and how taking acid in Las Vegas is like a truth serum. (Read part 1 HERE) In part two of this interview with the Nashville singer/songwriter whose most recent album, All American Made, was one of last year’s best (read the review here), we find out how her mix of country, rock and soul didn’t just happen, why politics matters, and

Nashville-based, Illinois-raised, All American Made Margo Price is a songwriter with a foot in country’s past, another in soul/rock, her mind on the state of her troubled country, and the rest of her body in the as-yet-unwritten future for rootsy Americana. As she explained late last year (HERE) all those things matter because all those things are part of her. Before coming here in a matter of weeks for her first Australian tour, taking in the Out On The Weekend festival as w

An artist with drive and defiance, Margo Price is refashioning, again, what we think of when we think of country old and new. A PRICE WORTH PAYING After getting Midwest Farmer’s Daughter in 2016 I refused to believe this was Margo Price’s debut, figuring no one sounds this formed and this good – and this mature - first time around. She could be traditional country but was never hamstrung by it, able to give you Tammy Wynette directness with Dolly Parton prettiness in her voic

MARGO PRICE All American Made (Third Man Records) Calling Margo Price smart, for she sure is, would be selling her short. It’s true, insight, wit and sharpness are all here, and they sparkle right up to the last track on this second album. That song, the title track, mixes spoken samples and her own words to question exactly what it is that lies within the nation’s, and her own, spirit, with references to Ronald Reagan, Tom Petty and the self-referential iconography American

MARGO PRICE Weakness (Third Man) First complaint: it’s only four songs. Second complaint: there is no second complaint. If Weakness tells you nothing else about Margo Price – and there’s surprisingly a lot to glean from just four songs – it would be that her deeply satisfying debut, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter,may have come after a decade in the business but it really was only a beginning. In these songs mostly written with partner/bandmate Jeremy Ivey, Price is playful as ofte