Margo Price

Her songwriting covers topics including parenting, friendship, economic struggle, and hard living. An advocate for anti-racism, women's rights, gun violence prevention, economic empowerment, and migrant workers, Price is a board member of Farm Aid, and has helped raise funds and awareness for several other organizations including Oxfam, ACLU, and Noise For Now.

• Name — Margo Price • Birth Name — Margo Rae Price • Born — 15 April 1983 • Birthplace — Aledo, Illinois, United States • Origin — Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. • Genre — * Country • Americana • outlaw country • country-soul • Occupation — * Singer-songwriter • record producer • author • Instrument — * Vocals • acoustic guitar • piano • drums • Years Active — 2013–present • Label — * Third Man • Loma Vista

Price grew up in the small town of Aledo, Illinois where she played piano and sang in a church choir before studying dance and theater at Northern Illinois University. In Nashville, Price worked several jobs, including waiting tables, installing and removing residential siding, and teaching children to dance at a YMCA. Price and her husband, guitarist Jeremy Ivey, were part of Secret Handshake, a band that only played political songs before she and Ivey started Buffalo Clover and later formed Margo and the Pricetags, which she says was "supposed to be a supergroup." Recording artist Sturgill Simpson and Kenny Vaughan, longtime guitarist in Marty Stuart's band, have both been in the lineup at various times. Rolling Stone Country described Price as "a fixture of the East Nashville music community," and she appeared on that publication's list of Country Artists You Need to Know in 2014. Fellow Nashville musician Aaron Lee Tasjan calls her "a singular and vital part of this scene, as a thing unto herself." In previewing Price's first album release, The Fader called her "country's next star." Her debut solo album Midwest Farmer's Daughter was released on Third Man Records on March 25, 2016. The album was recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and was engineered by Matt Ross-Spang. The album was recorded in three days. On April 9, 2016, Price was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. On May 17, 2016, she made her UK television debut on Later... with Jools Holland. In addition to her appearance on UK television, her tracks have appeared on shows on BBC Radio 6 Music, notably with Steve Lamacq. On October 6, 2016, she appeared on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. On November 16, 2016, she appeared on Charlie Rose, performing "All American Made" (a Buffalo Clover song) and "Hands of Time" from Midwest Farmer's Daughter. Price has proven to be popular in the UK, with her album reaching number 1 on the UK Country Albums Chart, embarking on UK tours in 2016 and 2017, performing on Later... with Jools Holland and at the Glastonbury Festival as well as garnering three nominations from the UK Americana Awards. In her concerts, Price plays acoustic guitar and electric guitar and sings. In addition there is a second drum kit on stage, and as part of a coda for one or another of her songs, she plays those drums for a several-minute jam with the rest of the band. On July 27, 2017, Price released a four-track EP titled Weakness, followed on October 20, 2017, by her second album, All American Made. Price performed as part of the C2C: Country to Country festival in 2018. In December 2018, she received a nomination for Best New Artist at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. On July 10, 2020, she released her third album, That's How Rumors Get Started. On April 8, 2021, it was announced that Price had joined the board of directors for Farm Aid, along with Willie Nelson's wife Annie. On October 4, 2022, Margo released her first memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir, published by University of Texas Press. Her fourth album, Strays, was issued in January 2023. Later that year, Price performed on and produced Jessi Colter's album Edge of Forever. In 2024, Price collaborated with Mike Campbell (formerly of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) to cover Petty's song "Ways to be Wicked" for the Petty Country Tribute Album. Campbell and Price have previously collaborated on the Dirty Knobs song, "State of Mind", and her own song "Light Me Up". She also worked with Orville Peck on the track "You're an Asshole, I Can't Stand You (And I Want a Divorce)" for his duets album Stampede, released in August 2024. She released Days of Unrest, an album described as a protest music mixtape, on July 3, 2026. The surprise release in support of migrant workers was themed with mariachi instrumentals named for San Marcos and a Blaze Foley cover, other cover songs, and vocal accompaniment by Billy Swan and Joan Baez.

Price is married to Jeremy Ivey, who plays guitar in her band. In 2010, Price gave birth to twin boys, one of whom died shortly after birth. On June 4, 2019, Price had their third child, a girl.

Accolades for Margo Price • Year — Association — Category — Nominated work — Result • 2017 — UK Americana Awards — International Album of the Year — Midwest Farmer's Daughter • International Song of the Year — "Hands of Time" • International Artist of the Year — Margo Price • American Music Prize — Best Debut Album — Midwest Farmer's Daughter • Americana Music Honors & Awards — Artist of the Year — Margo Price • 2018 — Album of the Year — All American Made • Song of the Year — "A Little Pain"

• Year — Category — Nominated work — Result — Ref. • 2019 — Best New Artist — Herself • 2026 — Best Traditional Country Album — Hard Headed Woman • Best Country Duo/Group Performance — "Love Me Like You Used To Do"