On January 13, 2023 Margo Price will release her new album Strays. From navigating her way through multiple lifetimes’ worth of loss, lies, failure and substance abuse, she has learned how to let go of trauma, pain and addiction, and this collection of ten original songs serves as a celebration of freedom in its many, feral forms.
Produced by Margo Price and Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), Strays was primarily recorded in the summer of 2021, during a week spent at Fivestar Studio in California’s Topanga Canyon. While the songwriting began the summer prior – during a six-day, mushroom-filled trip that Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey took to South Carolina – it was amongst the hallucinatory hills of western Los Angeles that Price experienced the best recording sessions of her career. Instilled with a newfound confidence and comfortability to experiment and explore like never before, Margo Price and her longtime band of Pricetags channeled their telepathic abilities into songs that span rock n roll, psychedelic country, rhythm & blues, and glistening, iridescent pop. With additional vocals from Sharon Van Etten and Lucius, plus guitar from Mike Campbell, strings, synthesizers and a breadth of previously untapped sounds, Strays is also Price’s most collaborative record yet.
“I feel this urgency to keep moving, keep creating,” says Margo Price. “You get stuck in the same patterns of thinking, the same loops of addiction. But there comes a point where you just have to say, ‘I’m going to be here, I’m going to enjoy it, and I’m not going to put so much stock into checking the boxes for everyone else.’ I feel more mature in the way that I write now, I’m on more than just a search for large crowds and accolades. I’m trying to find what my soul needs.”
Out today, new single “Change of Heart” was one of the first tracks that Price, Wilson and her band cut for Strays, its hypnotic riff and internal battleground of lyrics laying the foundation for the rest of the LP.
In a run of over 30 headline shows announced today, Margo Price will bring the music of Strays across North America from late November through early March, including stops at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre and New York’s Webster Hall, a return to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and much more. All of the newly added tour dates are on-sale at 10am local time this Friday, Sept 23rd, with presales beginning at 10am local time tomorrow. Find the full list of dates below, plus more information and tickets at margoprice.net/#tour.
Margo Price Tour Dates
9/23 – Lewisburg, WV – Healing Appalachia
9/24 – Raleigh, NC – Farm Aid
10/4 – Nashville, TN – Grimey’s^
10/5 – New York, NY – P&T Knitwear^
10/6 – Brooklyn, NY – Greenlight Bookstore^
10/8 – York, PA – White Rose Music Festival
10/15-16 – Nashville, TN – Southern Festival of Books^
10/17 – Lexington, KY – Joseph Beth Booksellers^
10/18 – Louisville, KY – Carmichael’s Bookstore^
10/20 – Traverse City, MI – National Writer’s Series^
10/22 – Iowa City, IA – Prairie Lights^
10/23 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Humanities Festival^
10/24 – Winnetka, IL – The Book Stall^
10/27-30 – Live Oak, FL – Suwannee Hulaween
11/1 – San Francisco, CA – Green Apple Books on the Park^
11/2 – Santa Cruz, CA – Bookshop Santa Cruz^
11/3 – Los Angeles, CA – Vroman’s^
11/5 – Austin, TX – Texas Book Festival^
11/6 – Dallas, TX – Interabang Books^
11/16 – Nashville, TN – Parnassus Books^
11/29 – Fayetteville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge*
11/30 – Baton Rouge, LA – Chelsea’s Live*
12/2 – Lake Wales, FL – Orange Blossom Revue
12/3 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm*
12/5 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre*
12/6 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall*
1/30 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel%
1/31 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse%
2/2 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall&
2/3 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn&
2/4 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater&
2/6 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom$
2/7 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park$
2/9 – Los Angeles, CA – Fonda Theatre$
2/10 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore$
2/11 – Arcata, CA – Van Duzer Theatre$
2/13 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom$
2/14 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom$
2/15 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox$
2/17 – Bozeman, MT – The Elm$
2/19 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue$
2/20 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre$
2/21 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre$
2/22 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue$
2/24 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert Theatre#
2/25 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre#
2/27 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom#
2/28 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club#
3/2 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club#
3/3 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts#
3/4 – New York, NY – Webster Hall#
3/9 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium!
^Maybe We’ll Make It Book Tour
*w/ Kam Franklin (of The Suffers)
%w/ The Deslondes
&w/ Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country
$w/ Lola Kirke
#w/ Tre Burt
!w/ Jessi Colter
