Since she first captured country music’s attention with her debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, nearly a decade ago, Margo Price has been one of the genre’s most prolific songwriters, with a passionate, independent spirit that channels the outlaw legends of the past. With this in mind, after a few albums that strayed from her roots, Price makes her return to a more country sound on Hard Headed Woman . She says she hopes the album “inspires people to be fearless and take chances and just be unabashedly themselves,” and sticks to that promise.

Price reunites with producer Matt Ross-Spang, who helmed her first two albums, and she doesn’t leave a moment wasted. The album is tight and fiery, as she ruminates on the state of the world. As she sings on “Don’t Wake Me Up,” a song that t

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