Margo Price announces forthcoming album, Hard Headed Woman

"Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down" is a song that speaks for the overlooked and underserved, the downtrodden and forgotten. While the track’s titular phrase originates from a call for resistance in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Price was most inspired by the message that Kris Kristofferson whispered to Sinéad O’Connor when she was booed on stage at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert.

“I always hope to do like Johnny Cash did, which is speak up for the common man and woman. But there have been so many threats and anger and vitriol over the years, when I am only coming from a place of love. So I made the decision to rebuild everything from the ground up. I hope this album inspires people to be fearless and take chances and just be unabashedly themselves, in a culture that tries as hard as it can to beat us into all being the same,” says Margo Price

Reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang, recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, and featuring duets with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles, Hard Headed Woman marks the first album that Price has made in Nashville, a town she has called home for more than 20 years.

Backed by a brand new live band, and armed with her newly-launched, signature Gibson J-45 guitar, Margo Price will bring the music of Hard Headed Woman on the road later this year, including a headline show at Scala in London on 18 June.

Tracklist:

1. Prelude {Hard Headed Woman}
2. Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down
3. Red Eye Flight
4. Don’t Wake Me Up (feat. Jesse Welles)
5. Close To You
6. Nowhere Is Where
7. Losing Streak
8. I Just Don’t Give a Damn
9. Keep A Picture
10. Love Me Like You Used To Do (feat. Tyler Childers)
11. Wild At Heart
12. Kissing You Goodbye