anthony: music is a $10 billion a year economy around here, employing more people than anywhere else in the country. its producers, its session artists, even the studios themselves are legendary. if you can make it as a working musician in nashville where there s anything but a shortage and standards high, you can pretty much make it anywhere. jason: lightning 100, this is jason moon. in the studio with us today, nashville artist margo price, fader magazine has called her nashville s favorite new badass. we agree, and she s here to play a couple new songs for us. margo: thanks for having me. one, two, three. anthony: margo price grew up on her family s farm in buffalo prairie, illinois. her family was forced to sell when she was age 2, which is pretty damn country already, if
anthony: music is a $10 billion a year economy around here, employing more people than anywhere else in the country. its producers, its session artists, even the studios themselves are legendary. if you can make it as a working musician in nashville where there s anything but a shortage and standards high, you can pretty much make it anywhere. jason: lightning 100, this is jason moon. in the studio with us today, nashville artist margo price. fader magazine has called her nashville s favorite new badass. we agree, and she s here to play a couple new songs for us. margo: thanks for having me. one, two, three. [ margo price told me with your eyes ] anthony: margo price grew up on her family s farm in buffalo
margo: thanks for having me. one, two, three. [ margo price told me with your eyes ] anthony: margo price grew up on her family s farm in buffalo prairie, illinois. her family was forced to sell when she was age 2, which is pretty damn country already, if you ask me. as a country music traditionalist, she struggled for years to find her place within nashville s increasingly pop-driven country scene and the growing indy rock one. in 2010, she lost one of her twin sons to a rare heart condition, self-medicated with alcohol, and ended up with every kind of problem, including problems of the legal kind. she poured her heart and every cent she had recording an album in just three days at the legendary sun studios in memphis, selling her car and her wedding ring along the way. on dead-end roads
margo: thanks for having me. one, two, three. anthony: margo price grew up on her family s farm in buffalo prairie, illinois. her family was forced to sell when she was age 2, which is pretty damn country already, if you ask me. as a country music traditionalist, she struggled for years to find her place within nashville s increasingly pop-driven country scene and the growing indy rock one. in 2010, she lost one of her twin sons to a rare heart condition, self-medicated with alcohol, and ended up with every kind of problem, including problems of the legal kind. she poured her heart and every cent she had recording an album in just three days at the legendary sun studios in memphis, selling her car and her wedding ring along the way. on dead-end roads they remind me where i am
anthony: music is a $10 billion a year economy around here, employing more people than anywhere else in the country. its producers, its session artists, even the studios themselves are legendary. if you can make it as a working musician in nashville where there s anything but a shortage and standards high, you can pretty much make it anywhere. jason: lightning 100, this is jason moon. in the studio with us today, nashville artist margo price, fader magazine has called her nashville s favorite new badass. re to playa couple new songs fo. margo: thanks for having me. one, two, three. [ margo price told me with your eyes ] anthony: margo price grew up on her family s farm in buffalo prairie, illinois.