Released on Jack White’s Third Man Records, “All American Made” arrived at a moment when Price’s plain-spoken working-class perspective felt urgently necessary. Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, the album carries the weight of classic country’s social conscience while keeping one boot firmly in the present.

A lot can change in a year: markets boom and bust, trends come and go, presidents get elected. In 2015, Margo Price was a country underdog just trying to keep enough gas in the tank to get to the next gig, but by the end of 2016, she was one of the genres most celebrated new artists and a ubiquitous presence on late night television and at major festivals around the world.

Its the kind of year most musicians can only dream of, and the arrival of Prices spectacular sophomore album, All American Made, proves that she hasnt taken a moment of it for granted. Delivering on the promise of her debut and then some, the record finds Price planting her flag firmly in the soil as a songwriter whos here for the long haul, one with the chops to hang with the greats she so often finds herself sharing stages with these days.

A prolific writer with a knack for candid self-reflection, Price has never had to look too far for inspiration, and on All American Made, she and her songwriting partner/ husband, Jeremy Ivey, continue to depict the trials of everyday life with un inching honesty, painting poetically plainspoken portraits of men and women just trying to get by.

Highs and lows, long nights and hard days, wild women and cocaine cowboys, politics and sexism, its all in there, singularly filtered through Prices wry, no-bullshit perspective. Throughout the album, her contemporary take on classic sounds is at once familiar and daring, an infectious blend of Nashville country, Memphis soul, and Texas twang that tips its cap to everyone from Waylon and Willie (who makes a guest appearance) to Loretta and Dolly, all while flipping a middle finger to the cookie-cutter pop that dominates modern country radio. Rich with swirling pedal steel, honky-tonk rhythms, and Prices stop-you-in-your-tracks vocals, All American Made is deeply reverent of tradition even as it challenges conventions, a nuanced exploration of conflicted emotions for our deeply conflicted times.

Tracklist

Side A

1.Don’t Say It2.Weakness3.A Little Pain4.Learning To Lose5.Pay Gap6.Nowhere Fast

Side B

1.Cocaine Cowboys2.Wild Women3.Heart Of America4.Do Right By Me5.Loner6.All American Made

UPC: 813547024589
Label: Third Man Vinyl Llc
Release Date: 10.20.17
Format: LP Vinyl