Margo Price has released new single and video, “Been To The Mountain”, in the track she takes both a hard look at the past and a firm step into the future. She has been a lover, a queen and a drifter; a cowboy devil, a bride and a boxer; a child, mother and even a number. Over a flurry of fuzzed-out guitar, she belts about being on food stamps, rolling in dirty dollars and standing in the welfare line. But across five and half minutes of the song’s unflappable groove, underlined by organ, harpsichord, and a soul-stirring, spoken-word breakdown in the bridge, Price previews another stronger, freer side of herself that will soon be seen.

Been To The Mountain was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), written by Margo Price and Jeremey Ivey, and recorded during a blissful week they spent at Fivestar Studios in California’s Topanga Canyon. With a scorching sound that expands upon the rock n roll roots Price showcased on 2020’s widely acclaimed, That’s How Rumors Get Started, the song is accompanied by a mind-altering, mushroom trip of a music video directed by Courtney Hoffman and shot in Los Angeles.

“Been To The Mountain is part one of an introspective trip into our subconscious. It is the perfect continuation of my search for freedom in my art and freedom in the modern age,” says Margo Price. “I have a lot of high hopes for this next chapter and truly believe this is the most exciting music I’ve ever made in the studio with my band. We have all grown so much, we operate like one single organism – it’s telepathic. Courtney Hoffman brought my wild visions to life with the help of an incredible cast and crew in the music video. I wanted the story’s hypothetical 8 to 12-hour window to feel like a mini-lifetime. We also wanted to portray how an intense psychedelic experience has the potential to become a spiritual experience, and how that can change your perception of the world around you.”

In the coming months, Margo Price will continue a busy year of touring with performances at Sacred Rose, Born and Raised and other festival appearances, plus Red Rocks with Wilco, and Farm Aid, where she recently became the first-ever female artist elected to the Board of Directors. She will also embark on a national book tour throughout October and November, in support of her forthcoming, debut memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It. Out October 4 on University of Texas Press, it tells a story of loyalty, loss, grief and forgiveness, from moving to Nashville with $57, to losing one of her newborn twin boys, pawning her wedding ring and facing rejection by almost every record label in town, to eventually reclaiming her power, freeing herself from substance abuse, and fighting for the opportunity to be herself in the music business. “Margo’s book hits you right in the gut – and the heart – just like her songs,” says Willie Nelson.

Margo Price
2022 Tour Dates

8/26 – Bridgeview, IL – Sacred Rose Festival
9/4 – Weston, CO – Caveman Music Festival
9/8 – Park City, UT – Park City Song Summit
9/14 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Wilco
9/17 – Pryor Creek, OK – Born and Raised
9/23 – Lewisburg, WV – Healing Appalachia
9/24 – Raleigh, NC – Farm Aid
10/4 – Nashville, TN – Grimey’s*
10/5 – New York, NY – P&T Knitwear*
10/6 – Brooklyn, NY – Greenlight Bookstore*
10/7 – York, PA – White Rose Music Festival
10/15-16 – Nashville, TN – Southern Festival of Books*
10/17 – Lexington, KY – Joseph Beth Booksellers*
10/18 – Louisville, KY – Carmichael’s Bookstore*
10/20 – Traverse City, MI – National Writer’s Series*
10/22 – Iowa City, IA – Prairie Lights*
10/23 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Humanities Festival*
10/24 – Winnetka, IL – The Book Stall*
10/27 – Live Oak, FL – Suwannee Hulaween
11/1 – San Francisco, CA – Green Apple Books on the Park*
11/2 – Santa Cruz, CA – Bookshop Santa Cruz*
11/3 – Los Angeles, CA – Vroman’s*
11/5 – Austin, TX – Texas Book Festival*
11/6 – Dallas, TX – Interbang Books*
11/16 – Nashville, TN – Parnassus Books*
12/2 – Lake Wales, FL – Orange Blossom Revue

*Maybe We’ll Make It Book Tour

Order “Been To The Mountain” by Margo Price HERE