{"id":1302044,"date":"2019-01-03T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1801950"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:14:06","slug":"margo-price-resolves-to-support-more-women-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/margo-price-resolves-to-support-more-women-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Margo Price Resolves to Support More Women in Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> 18m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The goal for most artists who move to Nashville for music is to find forever creative partners who bring out their best work. Margo Price<\/a> counts herself as one of the lucky few who has discovered that connection in her husband, Jeremy Ivey.<\/p>\n

Leading up to our CMT.com interview, Ivey and Price had spent the morning together at their kitchen table going over potential music for a follow-up to her sophomore album, All American Made<\/em>. She says he was the first artist to believe in her work.<\/p>\n

As a couple, they\u2019ve weathered tribulations that would have wrecked the most solid marriages. Price is connected with mothers everywhere who\u2019ve lost children after their son Ezra died in 2010, just two weeks after she gave birth to him and his twin brother, Judah. Then they have experienced the rejection that every musician encounters in their rise to prominence. Before breaking out with her 2016 major label debut Midwest Farmer\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, she was forced to sell her car, and she pawned her wedding ring to afford studio time. But they have never caved to self-doubt, or the tests life threw their way.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting rejected [in the music industry] for so long really tested our relationship in many ways,\u201d Price says. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen so many of our peers give up because it\u2019s hard to keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. They say that\u2019s the definition of insanity. But he\u2019s always believed in me, and I always believed in him. Our songs really kept us together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been married now for 10 years, and I think it\u2019s a 50% divorce rate for anybody. When you add on losing a child, there\u2019s not a lot of people who will make it through that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rejection is also why she supports women behind the scenes. In the hours leading up to each performance on her three-night run at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium last May, her stage crawled with an all-female crew testing equipment and instruments. Hiring covens of women to make her career move is essential to Price to show other rising female music professionals that they have viable futures in music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that for so long women have been put against each other,\u201d she says. \u201cInstead of it being a competition, we should support each other. I\u2019m trying to bring out more opening acts who are women, too, because I know how hard it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people think a bill with two women is not going to sell as many tickets. It\u2019s just not true. I wanted Lily Hiatt to come out with me. She\u2019s an amazing writer and performer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to encourage more girls to get out and follow this crazy dream, even if you\u2019re not getting the same radio play, even if you\u2019re not getting the same pay, even if you\u2019re not getting the same festival billing, there is still a way to make a living at it. And it\u2019s a lot of hard work, but it\u2019s rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharing life in music with Ivey has brought to life some of Price\u2019s signature songs including the All American Made<\/em> title track, a song they co-wrote during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

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