Margo Price Shares ‘Act II: Mind Travel’ From ‘Strays II

By editorial board on October 3, 2023

‘Strays II’ will arrive digitally on October 13, with a physical release to follow on November 10.

Out in full on October 13, the nine-track expansion to 2023’s acclaimed Strays LP is a triptych of musical exploration, each part telling its own unique story of love, grief, and acceptance.

With contributions from Strays and Strays II producer Jonathan Wilson, as well as Buck Meek and Ny Oh, Act I: Topanga Canyon reflected on the pain and sacrifice it takes to find freedom. Act II: Mind Travel enters the parts of a psychedelic journey where one learns to both ponder the past, and embrace the present with open arms. Inspired by beat poetry, out-of-body experiences and the loss of Price’s family farm, Strays II’s second of three acts includes the previously unheard “Black Wolf Blues,” “Mind Travel,” and “Unoriginal Sin (feat. Mike Campbell),” all available now via Loma Vista Recordings. (Udiscovermusic)

Previously Margo Price has shared her cover of Leon Russell‘s ‘Strangers In A Strange Land’ from the forthcoming tribute album ‘A Song For Leon’.

Price’s cover is the lead single from the star-studded tribute album that features contributors such as Orville Peck, Nathaniel Rateliff, Pixies, Leon’s daughter Tina Rose with Jason Hill and Amy Nelson (Willie Nelson‘s daughter), Bootsy Collins, Hiss Golden Messenger, and more.

Embracing cosmic empathy and some welcome collaborations, the Nashville songwriter’s fourth album bursts with easy confidence and kind, stoic wisdom.

It’s a tale as old as time: An artist ventures out into some sublime natural landscape, takes psychedelics, and comes back with some damn good songs. Margo Price is one of the latest musicians to do so, heading out to a rental in South Carolina with her husband and a bag of mushrooms. The result is Strays  her most urgent, collaborative, and – fittingly – trippy record to date.

“I knew that I wanted to make a record that was almost a psychedelic journey in and of itself, one that could also be like a mini lifetime from start to finish on an album,” the songwriter tells Consequence. “I knew that I wanted it to have a lot of peaks and valleys, everything ranging from unadulterated joy to incredible depths of pain.”

Margo Price new single “Lydia” was written years ago after the musician was struck with inspiration while passing by a women’s health clinic on tour. (Rolling Stone)

The song poured out in eight minutes, a moving collection of words about bodily autonomy and women’s rights that she finally recorded last year for her forthcoming album Strays, out Jan. 13. Roe v. Wade hadn’t been overturned when “Lydia” was written or recorded — now it feels like an eerily timely premonition.

“I wrote ‘Lydia’ in one sitting in a tiny hotel room after walking around the city of Vancouver one day,” Price explained in a lengthy statement. “I was jet lagged and feeling really depressed, hopeless, but instead of taking a nap, I picked up the guitar and the words just flowed out all in one quick moment. I hit record on my phone to make a demo and sort of blacked out or went into this meditative state, and boom — eight minutes later, I had this song. It’s one of the only songs I’ve ever written that doesn’t have any real melody or even rhyme, but somehow it still works. Songs like that are rare and don’t come often.”

“Lydia” adopts a stream-of-consciousness approach to share the story of a pregnant young woman riddled with self-doubt and uncertainty as she comes to the realization that she is unable to raise a child. The imagery of methadone clinics, used needles, health insurance access, and anxiety-inducing life decisions arises from the sights Price encountered on tour all those years ago.

 

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