The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum
Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for years to break through in the country-music scene, she found success with her 2016 release \u201cMidwest Farmer\u2019s Daughter,\u201d widely considered one of the best albums of the year. Since then, she\u2019s established herself as one of music\u2019s new stars, an artist in the outlaw-country lineage\u2014and a free spirit not afraid to speak frankly. Price talks with the staff writer Emily Nussbaum, who is well known as a television critic and is also a fan of country music, about her fourth studio album, \u201cStrays.\u201d It was released earlier this year, around the same time as her memoir, \u201cMaybe We\u2019ll Make It,\u201d which discusses her years of struggle before establishing herself as an artist. They also discussed Price\u2019s drug use\u2014she speaks proudly of using psilocybin and her stance in favor of gun control in the wake of a school shooting in Nashville.