“I’d love to be a drummer” AN AUDIENCE WITH MARGO PRICE
“Country music has been hijacked by a bunch of morons that don’t care about real songwriting”
MARGO PRICE is calling on the landline from her parents’ home in rural Illinois, down the same “unpaved road” she sang about on her 2016 breakout album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter. “There’s really nothing but cornfields everywhere,” she says, describing the scene. “The wind sounds like a freight train coming through. It can be desolate and lonely – not many people, no cell service, it’s like going back in time. But there’s always songs up here…”
Having the mental space to write, understandably, is central to Price’s wellbeing. Yet for the first months of the pandemic, she was “drowning in housework and domestic life” after both her husband (co-writer Jeremy Ivey) and infant daughter Ramona fell sick. But since the delayed release of her third album That’s How Rumorsin July, Price and Ivey have managed to take a couple of trips together where they’ve “tapped back into the muse. We’ve written lots of songs now,” she says.
