Margo Price Announces New Album 'Strays II', Shares Three New Songs
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Chris Phelps
Margo Price has announced a new album.
'Strays II' serves as a companion to the country singer-songwriter's 'Strays' LP, released back in January.
Slated to arrive through Loma Vista on October 13, it'll feature nine songs split into three distinct acts — Topanga Canyon, Mind Travel and Burn Whatever's Left — each presenting its own unique story.
As a preview, Price has shared the first act, which comprises the title track, Closer I Get featuring Ny Oh and Mailbu with Big Thief's Buck Meek and producer Jonathan Wilson. Discussing the three guitar-led tunes, Price wrote in a statement:
"The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy [Ivey] and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago. I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: ‘Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.
"Closer I Get (co-written with Jeremy Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, “Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying.” I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip – sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.
"Malibu was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our Airbnb. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutiae of the day, like “Ode to Billy Joe.” Mike added the long “California” yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. My favorite line is “love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel."
Price will play London's Lafayette ahead of her appearance at The Long Road festival in Leicestershire this Saturday (August 26). She also has a North American tour scheduled for September and October.
'Strays II' tracklist:
Act I: Topanga Canyon
1. Strays
2. Closer I Get (featuring Ny Oh)
3. Malibu (featuring Jonathan Wilson and Buck Meek)
Act II: Mind Travel
4. Black Wolf Blues
5. Mind Travel
6. Unoriginal Sin (featuring Mike Campbell)
Act III: Burn Whatever’s Left
7. Homesick (featuring Jonathan Wilson)
8. Where Did We Go Wrong
9. Burn Whatever’s Left
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