Today, Margo Price releases That’s How Rumors Get Started, an album Esquire says, “is, without question, one of the best sets of music that 2020 will witness.” Produced by Sturgill Simpson, co-produced by Price and David Ferguson, these ten new, original songs are about relationships and growing pains, motherhood and the mythologies of rock stardom, dissatisfactions and the defiance of expectations.
Listen here, or live alongside Margo Price and Ann Powers during NPR Music’s Listening Party at 3 p.m. ET today on YouTube (RSVP), before she appears on All Things Considered this afternoon.
Throughout the day, in an effort to support Grimey’s record store and three of Nashville’s independent restaurants, Margo’s Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner! initiative will deliver breakfast, lunch, dinner and vinyl LPs directly to fans, contact-free. Tonight, Spotify’s Indigo playlist presents Margo Price: Live at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge, a full-band, audienceless performance from Margo’s favorite Nashville dive bar, streaming at 8 p.m. ET here. Afterwards, she will spin a special episode of her internet radio show Runaway Horses, devoted to songs and stories from the album.
Tomorrow, Margo plays the Grand Ole Opry’s Saturday Night Opry showcase to an online and radio-only audience, and on Monday she’ll talk and perform on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Over the past week Margo has been featured on the cover of Nashville Scene, and profiled by Vanity Fair, Esquire, The LA Times, and more. In naming That’s How Rumors Get Started the Album Of The Week, Stereogum called it, “a warm, grounded, enormously appealing record with the sort of expansive live-in-studio glow that’s proven so hard to capture in recent years.”
That’s How Rumors Get Started is Margo Price’s third solo album, and debut for Loma Vista Recordings. While it was originally supposed to come out in May, and Margo details its postponement in a personal essay for Vogue and an interview on CBS This Morning: Saturday, it was primarily recorded in December 2018 at LA’s EastWest Studios.
