Country singer Margo Price teamed up with prolific socially conscious singer-songwriter Jesse Welles on her second single from her upcoming album, Hard Headed Woman, out August 29th. The track is accompanied by a music video that pays homage to Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”
“This song began as a poem a few years ago and was initially inspired by poet Frank Stanford,” she stated in the press release. “My husband and co-writer, Jeremy Ivey, found the idea I had scribbled from my abandoned notebook, and we resurrected it with a melody. The whole thing came together in ten minutes in one of those lightning bolt moments where you’re tapped into something bigger than yourself. I wanted to remind people of all the places and ways that we are still allowed to dream even when the outside world seems like a nightmare.”
“Jesse Welles is one of my favorite new songwriters and a rare prolific artist who really has something to say,” Price adds in connection with her collaborator on the song. “I met him at Farm Aid, and I became a big fan of his lyrics as well as his voice. I’m so grateful he could join me to sing on this song.”
Price, who is no stranger to heartfelt (and often heartbreaking) socially conscious songs, made the following statement about the upcoming album: “I always hope to do like Johnny Cash did, which is speak up for the common man and woman. But there have been so many threats and anger and vitriol over the years, when I am only coming from a place of love. So I made the decision to rebuild everything from the ground up. I hope this album inspires people to be fearless and take chances and just be unabashedly themselves, in a culture that tries as hard as it can to beat us into all being the same.”
