Margo Price has teamed up with her friend Billy Strings for new single ‘Too Stoned to Cry'.
The song features vocals and guitar from Strings and it finds Price squarely in the saddle of the plainspoken, poignant and empowering style of music that first cemented her place as a generational storyteller. ‘Too Stoned to Cry' is written by Andrew Combs and produced by Beau Bedford.
“It was such a joy to work with Billy on this song. He really nailed the vocals and laid down a beautiful lead,” Price said of the track. “I have wanted to record this song for years now, ever since I heard the writer Andrew Combs sing it. My buddy Beau Bedford and I had been in the studio together working on an Orville Peck track, and I asked him to produce this single for me. He put together a really great band – Beau and I, plus my husband Jeremy Ivey played acoustic, Aksel Coe on drums, Misa Arriaga on Bass, Russ Pahl on pedal steel, Joey McClellan on electric. Once we got Billy to add his guitar and singing, I knew this song was gonna be a special recording.”
‘Too Stoned to Cry' marks a new chapter for Price. This month she will appear at AmericanaFest and Farm Aid, where she serves alongside Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Willie Nelson as the first female artist on its board of directors.
She will also perform at upcoming celebrations for Robbie Robertson and Mavis Staples, and in recent weeks shared a new collaboration with Orville Peck called ‘You’re an Asshole, I Can’t Stand You (and I Want a Divorce)', an original T Bone Burnett-produced song and Elvis Costello cover for Netflix film ‘Downtown Owl' (‘Shelter Me' & ‘Pump It Up'), and a rendition of ‘Ways To Be Wicked' (feat. Mike Campbell) for ‘Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty'.
