Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir
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An October 2022 IndieNext pick
"[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor."--Kirkus, starred review
"Brutally honest...a vivid and poignant memoir."--The Guardian
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache.
Maybe We'll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break, and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling "Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility," Price shares the stories that became songs, and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women. Now a Grammy-nominated "Best New Artist," Price tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.
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About the Author
Margo Price is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter. She has released three LPs, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, and performed on Saturday Night Live, and is the first female musician to sit on the board of Farm Aid.
Reviews
[Maybe We'll Make It] documents [Price's] prolonged plight and the unsung truth of breaking into the biz: It's not glamorous...Her candid memoir takes the reader on a life-affirming journey.-- "BuzzFeed News" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor.-- "Kirkus, starred review" (6/25/2022 12:00:00 AM)
Brutally honest...a vivid and poignant memoir.
-- "The Guardian" (9/26/2022 12:00:00 AM)Margo Price delivers an unflinching self-portrait of an artist striving to find her sound and make her Music City dreams come true...Artists of all creeds will find something relatable in Maybe We'll Make It, with its raw depictions of the artist's perennial dilemma: bridging the transcendental need to create with the very real need to survive. Beyond this, Price's memoir offers a heart-wrenching account of her journey as a mother.
-- "Chapter 16" (9/29/2022 12:00:00 AM)Price has a knack for telling stories and drawing readers into her life and experience, and Maybe We'll Make It radiates with her bright candor; she's not interested in hiding her heart in the shadows and covering her feelings with darkness. Price bares her soul and the jaggedness of her emotions, making Maybe We'll Make It one of the best music memoirs so far this year.
-- "No Depression" (10/6/2022 12:00:00 AM)An astonishing tale of an incredible journey...Of its many notable successes, the book efficiently and effectively seals the chapter on popular, mainstream country music's divorce from its diverse, rustic roots. Plus, Price's tales highlight that split's honest, near-destructive impact on the genre's metaphorical orphaned children. Even deeper, these artists energizing themselves and their careers via digital-era globalization and DIY bootstrapping--amid East Nashville-residing marginalization from country music's mainstream industry--reads like the most authentic and timeless outlaw tale combining elements of punk rock and country's crossover into 70s-era rock and roll.-- "The Tennessean" (10/7/2022 12:00:00 AM)
The gritty struggle of how to get noticed in Nashville...Now established as a favourite songwriter of Willie Nelson, Margo Price had a hard ride to where she is today, her memoir reading like a soap opera borne from a song...As Price's music evolved, so her wisdom grows during the book, and at its heart is stoic love: for each other, for family and friends, and above all for music and creative freedom.-- "Mojo" (10/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
Courageously frank, utterly moving...Price tells us, with breathtaking honesty and courage, her story to achieve a sustainable career as a singer-songwriter. Through all manner of struggles, humiliations, disappointments, and personal tragedies, Price maintains her perseverance despite being tested to the core.-- "The Current" (10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM)
Compelling, honest, and powerful...Maybe We'll Make It should be required reading for anyone thinking about how music is made in the 2020's. That applies not only to artists, but also (perhaps especially) to club owners, journalists, or record company executives.-- "Americana Highways" (10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM)
[A] stunning, emotional, inspiring new memoir...In her authentic, no-nonsense voice, Price shares the stories that became songs, and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women.-- "Our Quad Cities" (10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM)
