Search - Margo Price :: Midwest Farmers Daughter

First impressions matter. Especially on a debut album. Time and attention-strapped listeners size up an artist within a song or two, then move on or delve in further. Fortunately, it only takes Margo Price about twenty-eight seconds to convince you that you?re hearing the arrival of a singular new talent. ?Hands of Time,? the opener on Midwest Farmer?s Daughter, is an invitation, a mission statement and a starkly poetic summary of the 32-year old singer?s life, all in one knockout, self-penned punch. Easing in over a groove of sidestick, bass and atmospheric guitar, Price sings, ?When I rolled out of town on the unpaved road, I was fifty-seven dollars from bein? broke . . .? It has the feel of the first line of a great novel or opening scene in a classic film. There?s an expectancy, a brewing excitement. And as the song builds, strings rising around her, Price recalls hardships and heartaches ? the loss of her family?s farm, the death of her child, problems with men and the bottle. There is no self-pity or over-emoting. Her voice has that alluring mix of vulnerability and resilience that was once the province of Loretta and Dolly. It is a tour-de-force performance that is vivid, deeply moving and all true. From the honky tonk comeuppance of ?About To Find Out,? to the rockabilly-charged ?This Town Gets Around? to the weekend twang of ?Hurtin? (On The Bottle)?, Price adds fresh twists to classic Nashville country, with a sound that could?ve made hits in any decade. Meanwhile, the hard-hitting blues grooves of ?Four Years of Chances? and ?Tennessee Song? push the boundaries further west to Memphis (the album was recorded at the legendary Sun Studio).