Strays (Margo Price album)


Strays is the fourth studio album by American country musician Margo Price, released on January 13, 2023, by Loma Vista Recordings. The album was produced by Price with musician Jonathan Wilson at his Fivestar Studio in Topanga Canyon, and features contributions from Mike Campbell, Sharon Van Etten, and Lucius.
The album was re-released as Strays II with nine additional songs on October 13, 2023. The nine songs were also released as "acts" in the weeks ahead of the re-released album.

Promotion

Alongside recording the album, Price completed a memoir, Maybe We'll Make It, released in October 2022 by University of Texas Press. Price completed a book tour that ran through November 2022 and then opened the "'Til the Wheels Fall Off Tour" in December 2022, with plans to promote Strays through March 2023.
The first single released from Strays was "Been to the Mountain". on August 25, 2022. When Price announced the album in September 2022, she also released the second single, "Change of Heart". Further, in November 2022, a third single, "Lydia", was released in promotion of the album, a song Price described as "a moving collection of words about bodily autonomy and women's rights" and noted was inspired by her passing a women's health clinic years earlier on tour in Vancouver, and recorded prior to the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Track listing

''Strays II''

An expanded re-release of Strays was released on October 13, 2023, and promoted with three "acts" of songs. "Act I: Topanga Canyon" was released August 22, 2023. "Act II: Mind Travel" was released on September 14, 2023. The complete Strays II and "Act III: Burn Whatever's Left" were both released on October 13, 2023.

Personnel

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