Nashville artists Margo Price, Billy Strings pair for new collab song, 'Too Stoned To Cry'

Margo Price, who is hard at work on studio album number five, has released a star-studded Americana collaboration recorded at Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A on Music Row that is too good to hold back.

"Too Stoned To Cry" is a fully countrified two-step ballad from Price and 2023 Americana Artist of the Year Billy Strings.

A press statement notes that "the track finds Margo squarely in the saddle of the plainspoken, poignant style of music that first cemented her place as a generational storyteller and exemplifies why country has been a comfort in her darkest days."

More directly, dial back the clock 75 years to Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys performing "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" for clear inspiration.

Via her Substack, Price adds the following:

"("Too Stoned To Cry") truly feels like a homecoming back to the country music that feeds my soul. We had the legendary Russ Pahl was on the pedal steel, Aksel Coe was on the drums, Misa Arriaga on bass, Joey McClellan played electric guitar and of course Billy Strings added acoustic guitar and vocals. Billy has persevered a lot in his short life and his story and dedication to the craft inspires me deeply. I may be biased but I think this song shows how multi-talented Billy is as a player and a vocalist. His voice and delivery on this track absolutely blew me away and showcase his ability to sing and play country music with the best of them."

Margo Price's music, of late

Dig deeper into her Substack musings and an April 2024 post is entitled "Why I Left Country Music & Why I'm Coming Back To Kick It's A**."

"Country Music to me is like a toxic ex-boyfriend. I love it so much, but I needed some space," she notes as she winds into more profound thoughts and snippets of prospective new material.

Concerning those quotes, Price adds, via a press statement, the following about her professional evolution:

“When I first came on the scene, I was a countryfied, hard headed, whiskey drinkin nobody who was pissed off at the establishment. All of that’s still true, except for the whiskey drinkin part. If anything, now that I’ve lived for a while inside of the establishment, I’m even more pissed off. I’ve let some people go, I’m still fighting with others to let me be myself, but I know, I’m gonna make this next record the way I want to make it, no matter what it takes.”

2023 saw Price release her fourth album, "Strays," in two parts.

A six-day summer psilocybin trip that Price took alongside her husband, Jeremy Ivey, spawned the project.

A press statement adds that the album centers on telling "unique stories of love, grief and acceptance," plus "the sacrifices it takes to find freedom, the grit it takes to make it, and the consequences that come with all of it."

2024 saw Price tour alongside the Tedeschi Trucks band and release collaborations with Orville Peck, T Bone Burnett, Mike Campbell and more.

For more information on Margo Price, visit https://www.margoprice.net.

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