'If I had not taken that first mushroom trip, I never would’ve had the premonition to think: 'I’m gonna go try to be a songwriter,'' says Margo Price.
got it made? That’s a question implicitly asked by the title of her recent book, “Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir,” which effectively ends with the singer-songwriter getting a big break as she’s booked on “Saturday Night Live” in 2016, with a nod toward the best new artist Grammy nomination that followed in 2018.
But I’ve got a lot of respect for people who make their living writing , because it takes a lot of dedication. Sometimes a song can just happen: I wrote “Lydia” for this album in about eight minutes. It happened like lightning; it was just like I blacked out and the song appeared. But the writing and the editing process — whew, it takes a lot more focus and commitment. You can’t just be all stoned andtrying to write a book, you know. [Laughs.]It was going on in tandem.
But when we went over to Mike’s house, we had the work tape demos for “Been to the Mountain” and “Light Me Up” and he’s like, “That’s an album right there. You don’t even need to re-record that.” And it was cool to hear him be enthusiastic about those songs and let us know that we were sniffing in the right direction. Mike played on “Light Me Up,” and he laid down that solo in one take.
And yet you love, obviously, coming back into the country world at appropriate times. I just saw you at the Opry House performing “The Pill” at the Loretta Lynn memorial concert. If they call and ask you to come sing Loretta… So you’re probably not worried: “Oh, I’m sending a mixed message if I talk about abstaining but bring back ‘Hurtin’ on the Bottle’.”
I’ve been very into Michael Pollan’s work and his book “How to Change Your Mind.” I think that if more people opened their minds, we could have a revolution. But instead, everybody’s just numbing themselves with alcohol, and they don’t even know that just three drinks a week increases your risk for breast cancer by 50%, for women.
Margo Price is seen backstage during CMT Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Celebration of the Life & Music of Loretta Lynn at Grand Ole Opry on October 30, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. You have songs on “Strays” that are very much about you. But then you have a character song in “Lydia,” which comes partly out of your advocacy for reproductive rights, even though it’s a sketch of a pretty down-and-out character.
Definitely Brit-rock influenced. I think Jeremy was definitely pulling from Ray and Dave Davies, but always John Lennon. Jeremy wrote that song when we were having a real rough patch. He’s writing songs all the time; he shows me a song every other day. Well, when he played that one, I just had tears rolling down my face and I’m like, “I’ve got to record that for the record.”
Yep. It’s been 19 years together, and we’ve been through so much. And I think finally being transparent about everything we went through after losing a child… And we were in a band called Buffalo Clover, which I write about in the book. Like I say, it was Fleetwood Mac without the success. You know, I cheated on Jeremy, and I write about that in the book, and now it’s in the songs too, you know? And it always has been.
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