Margo Price Albums - Ranked

That's How Rumours Get Started

Produced by Sturgill Simpson, recorded in California and released mid-pandemic, Price’s third album found her softening her country twang and fully embracing rock and roll, as she pays homage to Tom Petty on the title track and flirts with both gospel (‘Prisoner of the Highway’) and soul (‘Hey Child’).

Strays

Price continued to resist hard and fast genre definitions on her fourth album, which sees her lean into her iconoclastic tendencies on songs that address her own heroine’s journey (‘Been to the Mountain’), modern dystopia (‘Hell in the Heartland’, ‘Lydia’) and fluently toggle between driving rock and the singer-songwriter tradition.

Strays II

Recorded at Jonathan Wilson's Topanga studio during the same life-changing sessions as Strays – and partially written amidst the formative, six-day psilocybin trip that Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey took the summer prior – Strays II expanded even further on the themes of Strays and ended up being an even more intriguingly eclectic and experimental listen.

Featuring new collaborations with Buck Meek of Big Thief, Mike Campbell and Ny Oh, its nine new songs unfolded in the form of three distinct acts, each telling its own unique story of love, grief and acceptance. Act I: Topanga Canyon reflects on wild young lust, the cost of living and the sacrifice it takes to find freedom. Inspired by beat poetry, out-of-body experiences and the loss of Price's family farm, Act II: Mind Travel enters the parts of a trip where one ponders the past but embraces the present with open arms.

"We are at the end of the journey," explained Margo Price. "You might feel nostalgic that it's over. You may have regrets but you're not going to dwell on things you can't change. After all, what would Joan of Arc do? 'Strike a match and start again, light the rope from either ends, so many pages I can't forget, tear them out and burn whatever's left.'"

Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman

"We did this last night, but it's still very surreal to be standing here," Margo Price tells the audience at the beginning of this live recording from her triumphant three-night run at The Ryman Auditorium in May 2018.

One of the greatest live country albums ever captured on tape, Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman from 2020 features guest appearances from Emmylou Harris on 'Wild Woman', Sturgill Simpson for a run through of Rodney Crowell's 'Ain't Living Long Like This' and Jack White for a duet of the White Stripes' 'Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap' which is even better than the studio version.

For once, you didn't have to be there.

Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Price mines her personal tragedy to create 11 instantly classic country songs that address poverty (‘Cruel Hands of Time’), drinking (‘Hurtin on the Bottle’) and the Nashville music business (‘This Town Gets Around’) with searing honesty and a vocal performance that’s by turns steely, wry and vulnerable.

All American Made

Price’s sophomore effort received universal acclaim for its incisive writing and wide-ranging musicality, quickly charting in both the US And UK and proving she was here to stay. Anchored by a title track that captured the zeitgeist and a duet with Willie Nelson, Price perfectly threads the needle between the personal, political and universal.