If you're like us, you've been jonesing for some new music from Margo Price, and this afternoon brings some sweet relief. With the four-song EP Weakness — which you can stream digitally today and spin physically tomorrow — Price shows off some new tunes, following up on her 2016 Third Man Records debut Midwest Farmer's Daughter.
Among them are the title track, a honky-tonk-ready country-rock song that finds Price overseeing an internal battle between two sides of herself: "Sometimes I'm Virginia Woolf / Sometimes I'm James Dean / Sometimes I'm my only friend / And my own worst enemy," she sings in the opening lines. Fans who've caught Price on tour (or during the Buffalo Clover reunion at the memorial for Ben Eyestone) have likely heard that track, as well as "Paper Cowboy," a six-minute boot-stomping jam that puts a man in his place.
Weakness was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, with production from Price working along with Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang, Alex Munoz and Jeremy Ivey.
Get busy streaming or get busy dying, as they say — pick your service here, or stream via Spotify below — and preorder a physical copy from Third Man's Store. Price doesn't have any local dates on the books at the moment, but she is nominated for Artist of the Year at the Americana Honors and Awards, so you might see her here in September.
