Margo Price has announced the release of Hard Headed Woman, a new collection of country music that reconnects with her roots, and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw. Out August 29th on Loma Vista Recordings, the album captures Margo Price at her wisest, funniest, toughest, and most vulnerable. It is a promise and a manifesto, a tribute to both a city and genre, a defiant cry for individuality and deep exploration of America, doubling down not only on herself, but what she has always loved: classic songs written from the intellect and the gut, timeless and urgent all at once. Reunited with producerMatt Ross-Spang, recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, and featuring duets with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles.
Hard Headed Woman marks the first album that Price has recorded in Nashville, a town she has called home for more than 20 years, and has played a vital role in transforming, creating a lane where independent and insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Performed in the same room where late friends like John Prine and Loretta Lynn have recorded, ‘Hard Headed Woman’ looks forward and back, as it places her amongst her heroes as part of a new legacy. But this is country music as only Margo Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard-headed with a delicate heart.
Beginning with a proclamation that “I don’t owe you f*cking shit,” as Price paraphrases, Hard Headed Woman is about the unshakable instinct never to waver, especially when our valuesand our future are on the line. In an era of unprecedented uncertainty, that mission is embodied lead single“Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down,”a song that speaks for the overlooked and underserved, the downtrodden and forgotten.
