Margo Price Hard Headed Woman LP

TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the November 2025 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

For nearly a decade, Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Now she's back with an exquisite, timeless album that reconnects with her roots. At its core, Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver – especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line. It's country music as only Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.

A feisty country-music survivor, Price snarls her way through Hard-Headed Woman, which is buoyed by swirling pedal-steel guitar licks and guest vocals by Jesse Welles and Tyler Childers. The album further sets Price apart from her mainstream country contemporaries—she serves notice to Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and, yes, Beyonce that country music can still cut deep, and Price is more than happy to wield the blade.