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Margo Price On Mountain Stage

The breakout country artist makes her debut on Mountain Stage, recorded live at the Civic Center Little Theater in Charleston, W.Va.
Margo Price performs on this week's episode of <em>Mountain Stage</em>.

Breakout country artist makes her debut on , recorded live at the Civic Center Little Theater in Charleston, W.Va. Price grew up surrounded by music, whether it came from personal and or family relations like her great-uncle Bobby Fischer (the legendary Music Row songwriter who penned over 500 songs for artists like , Conway Twitty and Reba McEntire). Like many with a dream, Price dropped out of college in Illinois to pursue a more musical career in Nashville, paying her dues along the way working concessions at the local movie theater, teaching children's dance classes at the YMCA and pitching songs with her husband, Jeremy Ivey, under the names Sylvia Slim and Sam Pickens (a.k.a. Slim-Pickens). These were just some of the experiences that informed her rockabilly songwriting and musical humility, whether she was fronting the supergroup Margo and the Price Tags with and Kenny Vaughan or acting as the rhythm section in Lilly Hiatt's band.

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