Margo Price Enlists Billy Strings for ‘Too Stoned to Cry’

Margo Price marks her return to country music on “Too Stoned to Cry,” a stunning ballad featuring Billy Strings.

The track features the two musicians trading lines, backed by Russ Pahl’s gorgeous pedal steel. On her Substack, Price wrote, “I’d like to send a special thank you to everyone who played on this track — it truly feels like coming home to the country music that feeds my soul. Billy has endured a lot in his short life, and his story and dedication to the craft deeply inspires me. I may be biased, but I think this track showcases just how multi-talented Billy is as a player and singer. His voice and performance on this track absolutely blew me away and showed that he can sing and play country music with the best of them.”

She added: “When I first came on the scene, I was a country, stubborn, whiskey-drinking nobody who was pissed off at the establishment. All that’s still true, except the whiskey drinking. Now that I’ve lived in the establishment for a while, I’m even more pissed off. I’ve let some people go, I’m still fighting with others to let me be myself, but I know I’m going to make this next record the way I want to make it, whatever it takes.”

Price also revealed that she is currently working on a new album and will be performing new songs at Farm Aid on September 21. “In the meantime,” she wrote, “I hope you enjoy this sad country song.”

Price recently recorded a cover of Tom Petty’s “Ways to Be Wicked” with heartbreaker Mike Campbell, for the collection Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration by Tom Petty. Last year Price released Stray dogswhich Rolling Stone included in their list of the best country and Americana albums of 2023. It came months after her excellent memoir, Maybe we can make it. “I’m not proud of everything,” she told us of her life story. “But the way I see it, we’re all going to die. I want to be honest with people.”