Margo Price: Midwest Farmer’s Daughter review – tears and triumphs in startling debut

(Third Man)Margo Price’s debut opens with Hands of Time, seemingly a compendium of country cliches. She leaves home just $57 from broke, tears in her eyes, leaving the daddy who lost the farm when she was two. She goes to the city, plays the bars, meets bad men, drinks too hard, loses a baby, decides she has to make some money to buy back the farm. What’s startling is that it’s the true story of Price’s adulthood. It’s just one of many ways Midwest Farmerâ€â...

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