After delivering show-stopping performances of the song at Farm Aid with Billy Strings and Jesse Welles, and Newport Folk Festival with John C. Reilly, Margo Price has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm,” out now.
Having first debuted 60 years ago in 1965, as part of Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home, Price repurposes the track’s defiant message for the present. Howling into the height of her vocal range, she and her band tear through a barn-burning shuffle of blistering guitar licks, pedal steel, screaming harmonica solos and countrified rock. Listen to Margo Price’s version of “Maggie’s Farm,”
“Maggie’s Farm” follows Margo Price’s release of Hard Headed Woman, one of “the year’s defining country albums” and an exquisite, timeless collection of songs that reconnect with her roots. For nearly a decade, Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream, and at its core, Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver – especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line.
Reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang (Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, All American Made), and recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, Hard Headed Woman captures Margo Price at her wisest, funniest, toughest and most vulnerable, as she returns “to her classic country roots… still as raw and honest as she’s always been”. The album features duets with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles, contributions from Kris Kristofferson and Rodney Crowell, and a Waylon Jennings song that his widow, Jessi Colter, urged her to sing, as the music traces Price’s journey from dive bars to tour buses, through parenthood and marriage, scrutiny and sacrifice in a place that prizes uniformity and the bottom line. It’s country music as only Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.
In recent weeks, Margo Price shared a new video for “Love Me Like You Used To Do” (feat. Tyler Childers) and delivered a prescient performance of “Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! just hours before the show was pulled off the air.
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