Margo Price hires Billy Strings for “Too Stoned to Cry”

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

The track features the two musicians trading lines, backed by Russ Pahl's beautiful pedal steel guitar. On her Substack, Price wrote, “I want to give a special thank you to everyone who played on this song – it truly feels like a homecoming to country music that feeds my soul. Billy has endured a lot in his short life and his story and dedication to the craft inspires me deeply. I may be biased, but I think this song shows how versatile Billy is as a player and singer. His voice and delivery on this track absolutely blew me away and showcases his ability to sing and play country music with the best.”

She added: “When I first came on the scene, I was a rural, hard-boiled, whiskey-drinking nobody who was mad at the establishment. All of that is still the case, except for the whiskey-drinking part. If anything, I'm more mad now that I've lived in the establishment for a while. I've let some people go, I still fight 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 the cost.”

Price also revealed that she is currently working on a new album and will be performing new material at this year's 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 tribute to Tom PettLast year, Price published Straywhich Rolling Stone in their list of the best country and Americana albums of 2023. It was released months after her excellent memoir, Maybe we can do it“I'm not proud of all this,” she told us her life story. “But I think we're all going to die. I want to be honest with people.”