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An October 2022 IndieNext pick
"[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor."-Kirkus, starred review
"Brutally honest...a vivid and poignant memoir."-The Guardian
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache.
Maybe We'll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break, and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling "Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility," Price shares the stories that became songs, and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women. Now an award-winning artist with a global fanbase, Price tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Unpaved Road
Chapter 2. Rearview Mirror
Chapter 3. Fifty-Seven Dollars
Chapter 4. Strays
Chapter 5. Lay Around with the Dogs
Chapter 6. This Town Gets Around (and Around and Around)
Chapter 7. Black Water
Chapter 8. Stealing from Thieves
Chapter 9. Floating
Chapter 10. Pearls to Swine
Chapter 11. Hell in the Heartland
Chapter 12. Everywhere
Chapter 13. Mesa Boogie
Chapter 14. C for California
Chapter 15. Aimless Fate
Chapter 16. Ball and Unchained
Chapter 17. New Mama
Chapter 18. Ezra and Judah
Chapter 19. Drowning
Chapter 20. Uppers, Downers, Out-of-Towners
Chapter 21. Burn Whatever's Left
Chapter 22. Treading Water
Chapter 23. Weekender
Chapter 24. A Band of My Own
Chapter 25. Midwest Farmer's Daughter
Chapter 26. One Dark Horse
Chapter 27. The Recent Future
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
