Mask-wearing, BLM-backing country singer Margo Price on alienating fans: 'You can't argue with stupid'

With her wise and tender new album finally due out last Friday, Margo Price woke up the other morning determined to focus on the positive.

Then she went to the grocery store.

"I drove to this one I like downtown - it's pretty clean and everybody there wears a mask," the country-rock singer said in a phone call from her home outside Nashville. "But coming back up Broadway, there were a bunch of dumb tourists wandering around with straw hats and fanny packs and no masks on, like they don't have any idea what's going on."

You can understand her distress: In March, Price, 37, pushed her third LP, "That's How Rumors Get Started," from its original May 8 release date after her husband and guitarist, Jeremy Ivey, contracted COVID-19. (Price suspects that Ivey - with whom she has a 10-year-old son, Judah, and a 1-year-old daughter,