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Info
Artist | Margo Price
Title | All American Made
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CD Time | 45:50
Label | Third Man Records Store | 2017
Catalog | TMR-482 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 764 kbps Size | 260.93 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
Tracks
01. Don't Say It 2:43
02. Weakness 2:46
03. A Little Pain 2:55
04. Learning To Lose 6:19
05. Pay Gap 3:53
06. Nowhere Fast 4:07
07. Cocaine Cowboys 3:26
08. Wild Women 2:56
09. Heart Of America 3:15
10. Do Right By Me 3:10
11. Loner 4:30
12. All American Made 5:50
Notes
Margo Price might be something of a throwback, not only styling her country
music after the classic sounds of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Emmylou
Harris, but also writing like a classic 70's singer/songwriter. She has an
eye for details and a knack for narrative that help keep her brand of
traditionalism from seeming like nostalgia on her debut, "Midwest Farmer's
Daughter", an album recorded at Sun Studios and released on Jack White's
Third Man Records in 2016. "Midwest Farmer's Daughter" was cut on Price's
own dime, hawking everything she and her husband had to record the album at
Sun Studio.
Its rawness grabbed the attention of Third Man Records, which released the
record unadorned. Critics and a cult of fans also found the rough edges
appealing, but that ragged immediacy also suggested Price was more of a
traditionalist than she actually was, a situation she remedies with 2017's
"All American Made". Written and recorded in the aftermath of Donald J.
Trump's November 2016 election, "All American Made" doesn't disguise
Price's liberal politics - "Pay Gap" addresses gender inequality among
salaries, the title track is a stark bit of protest that reaches its boil
thanks to sampled news clips - which is a shift from the personal vignettes
of her debut, and she broadens her musical range, too.
Price is particularly drawn to laid-back slow, going so far as to set
"Cocaine Cowboys" to a lackadaisical funk beat. She hasn't abandoned
country - the album opens with the rockabilly of "Don't Say It", which is
quickly countered by the barroom swing of "Weakness", while Willie Nelson
later swings by to sing on "Learning To Lose" - which means "All American
Made" winds up drawing an expansive portrait of American roots music, one
that touches on R&B, Tex-Mex, girl group pop, spacy indie rock, and even
Glen Campbell's trippiest moments.
Price isn't a dilettante; these disparate styles are unified by a musical
and lyrical aesthetic that views American life not only as a continuum, but
a place where the past and present, rural and urban are in constant
dialogue. Despite some deservedly hard edges, it's this vision of an
open-hearted, open-bordered USA that gives "All American Made" its lasting
power.
