Best Turn to Rock ’n’ Roll

Photo: Daniel Meigs

In the past few years, Margo Price has changed a lot of things. Her two-album deal with Third Man Records concluded amicably, and her latest LP That’s How Rumors Get Started is her first release for Loma Vista Recordings. Though Price still performs with her longtime band of ringers The Pricetags, she and producer Sturgill Simpson brought in some studio legends to record Rumors. And the new songs are rooted in the anthemic snarl of Tom Petty and the big-canvas sound of Fleetwood Mac, not in country music as on Price’s two previous albums. What hasn’t changed, though, is the way Price consistently and constantly uses her platform to speak honestly about what there is to cherish in our world and what needs to change. This is ultimately why That’s How Rumors Get Started kicks major ass, and shows yet another way for rock to respond to our culture and move forward instead of dying a slow and ignominious death. STEPHEN TRAGESER

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