Days Of Unrest Margo Price

• 1 San Marcos 02:38
• 2 De Colores 02:31
• 3 Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) 04:03
• 4 Oval Room 04:15
• 5 San Marcos Theme 02:14
• 6 Long Haired Country Girl 03:40
• 7 Can’t Stand Still 03:55
• 8 Maggie's Farm 03:35
• 9 San Marcos el Fin 02:07
• Total Runtime 28:58

Info for Days Of Unrest

On Friday the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter will release a protest mixtape, Days of Unrest, a nine-track collection inspired by the causes and communities she's championed throughout her career, ranging from prison reform and marijuana legalization to immigration, farming and labor rights.

Produced by longtime collaborator Matt Ross-Spang, the set blends original material with reimagined classics. Among the covers are Woody Guthrie's "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" featuring Joan Baez and Memphis Mariachi, Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," Charlie Daniels' "Long Haired Country Girl" featuring Billy Swan and the traditional folk song "De Colores," also with Memphis Mariachi.

The project includes such original compositions as "Can't Stand Still," dating back to Price's early days fronting the Nashville rock and soul outfit Buffalo Clover, and the three-part instrumental suite "San Marcos," written with her husband and collaborator Jeremy Ivey and recorded with her current band, the Price Tags.

Days of Unrest follows the acclaimed artist’s 2025 album Hard Headed Woman, which earned Grammy nods for Best Traditional Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Price is nominated for Americana Honors & Awards Artist of the Year and Album of the Year.

Margo Price
Guests:
Memphis Mariachi
Joan Baez
Billy Swan

Margo Price
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 (coming Spring 2016 on Third Man Records), 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: “When I rolled out of town on the unpaved road, I was fifty-seven dollars from bein' broke . . .”

Throughout Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, Price recalls hardships and heartaches – the loss of her family's farm, the death of her child, problems with men and the bottle. 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 Sun Studio).

Price grew up in Aledo, Illinois (pop. 3,612), and after dropping out of college, she moved to Nashville in 2003. She soon met bass player – and future husband – Jeremy Ivey, and formed a band called Buffalo Clover. They self-released three records and built a local following, but it was personal tragedy that brought Price’s calling into even sharper focus. “I lost my firstborn son to a heart ailment,” Price says, “and I was really down and depressed. I was drinking too much. I was definitely lost. I did some things that I regret very much now that resulted in a brush with the law. Thank god I had my friends and family to keep me going. Coming through that, I thought, 'I'm just going to write music that I want to hear.' It was a big turning point.”

After recording the album with her band at Sun Studio and shopping it to a number of Nashville labels, Price reached another critical career moment when a friend brought up Third Man Records and told her, “You're on Jack's radar, he wants to hear the record.” Price says, “I sent it over, and it just felt like home. A good creative space to be involved in, and everyone is so down to earth. It was awesome when I met with Jack. He told me he thought my voice was a breath of fresh air, and that he loved the record.”

As Price looks ahead to a busy 2016, full of touring and promoting Midwest Farmer's Daughter, she reflects on her hopes for what listeners might get from these songs. “I hope that the record helps people get through hard times or depression. That's ultimately what music did for me in my childhood, and especially in my early adult years. It's about being able to connect personally with a song, and hopefully, it makes you feel not so lonely.”

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