Margo Price To Extend Musical Journey With Three-Act Collection ‘Strays II’

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Margo Price is releasing Strays II, a new double album presented as three distinct acts, on Oct. 13.

Strays II expands on Price’s original 2023 project with nine new songs, each telling a unique story of love, grief and acceptance. On Act I: Topanga Canyon, available now via Loma Vista Recordings, Price is joined by Strays producer Jonathan Wilson as well as new collaborators Buck Meek of Big Thief and singer-songwriter Ny Oh. They cumulatively dive deeper into the sacrifices it takes to find freedom, the grit it takes to make it and the consequences that come with all of it.

Recorded at Wilson’s Topanga studio, all three acts of Strays II further complement and intensify the resilient, hard-rocking proclamation that Price delivered across the initial LP earlier this year. Accompanied by a three-part short film directed by Chris Phelps, Strays II will continue to unfold throughout the coming weeks with the release of Act II: Mind Travel and Act III: Burn Whatever’s Left. All nineteen tracks will then combine into the double album’s digital release on Oct. 13, followed by a vinyl release of the nine tracks on Nov. 10.

“The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy [Ivey] and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago,” recalls Price. “I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: ‘Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.‘

“‘Closer I Get’ (co-written with Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, ‘Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying.’ I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip–sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.”

Following a return to the United Kingdom this week, Price and her band will hit the road for a fall leg of her “‘Til The Wheels Fall Off Tour.” She’ll also play festivals including Hopscotch, XPoNential, Pilgrimage and Farm Aid, where she serves as the first female artist to sit on the Board of Directors.

Strays II Track Listing:

Act I: Topanga Canyon
“Strays”
“Closer I Get (feat. Ny Oh)”
Malibu (feat. Jonathan Wilson, Buck Meek)

Act II: Mind Travel
“Black Wolf Blues”
“Mind Travel”
“Unoriginal Sin (feat. Mike Campbell)”

Act III: Burn Whatever’s Left
“Homesick (feat. Jonathan Wilson)”
“Where Did We Go Wrong”
“Burn Whatever’s Left”

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