Friday, August 19, 2016

Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter

It would be easy for this kind of contemporarily clean, gently honkytonk country to be kind of dull, but that isn't the case here despite a lack of anything obviously distinctive. Instead, the charms of Price's elegant song-smithing grow over repeated listens, none more so than opener "Hands of Time", which starts off feeling maybe a touch too already-familiar but, multiple listens on, comes to scan more as touched with a hint of the classic as the little touches sink gradually in.