Margo Price, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and performed on Saturday Night Live, will be discussing her new book, “Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir,” at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 3, starting at 7 p.m.
When Margo Price was 19 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. She tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.
To learn more about the artist, visit www.margoprice.net.
There is no charge for attendance at the event at Vroman’s Bookstore on Thursday.
For more information, call (626) 449-5320 or visit www.vromansbookstore.com/margo-price-discusses-maybe-well-make-it.
Vroman’s Bookstore is at 695 E. Colorado Blvd.
