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Aug 27, 2025These are incredible songs, but the best “don’t” track is “Don’t Let the Bastards Get Your Down”, inspired by Kris Kristofferson‘s whispered remarks to Sinead O’Connor when she was booed on stage at a Dylan 30th anniversary show.
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Sep 11, 2025On Hard Headed Woman, Price might be a stubborn artist who doesn't feel like she owes "the bastards" anything, but she feels like she's keeping a promise, both to her fans and to herself.
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Record CollectorSep 5, 2025A career high to match her attention-grabbing 2016 debut. [Oct 2025, p.133]
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Aug 29, 2025A juxtaposition of life’s light and dark, glittering idealism and harsh realities, ‘Hard Headed Woman’ is a gorgeous display of classic country tropes, blues instrumentation and songwriting prowess.
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Aug 27, 2025Hard Headed Woman sees her big personality fire straight-talking, sometimes blackly comic lyrics "All the cocaine in existence/Can't keep your nose out of my business" - while taking her music to new places. [Oct 2025, p.82]
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UncutAug 27, 2025Excellent news that Price has re-embraced the old-school virtues that got her noticed in the first place: the rowdy yet droll honky-tonk tear-up, heard here on such Southern soul-infused cuts as "Losing Streak" and "I Just Don't Give A Damn". [Oct 2025, p.31]
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Sep 2, 2025She doesn’t write anthems, but boy, she spins downright anthemic lines here, track after track.
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Sep 2, 2025Its focus on the verities of songcraft suggests an artist confident enough to lean harder into tropes, formulas, and covers (including a spicy take on Waylon Jennings’ “Kissing You Goodbye”). It may feel like fiddling while Rome burns, but artistically it pays off.
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Aug 27, 2025The album is tight and fiery, as she ruminates on the state of the world.