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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from country artist Margo Price features guest appearances by Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles. The limited-edition CD adds a bonus track featuring Billy Strings.
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  1. Aug 27, 2025
    90
    These 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.
  2. Uncut
    Aug 27, 2025
    80
    Excellent 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]
  3. Aug 27, 2025
    80
    Hard 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]
  4. Record Collector
    Sep 5, 2025
    80
    A career high to match her attention-grabbing 2016 debut. [Oct 2025, p.133]
  5. Sep 11, 2025
    80
    On 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.
  6. Sep 2, 2025
    79
    She doesn’t write anthems, but boy, she spins downright anthemic lines here, track after track.
  7. Aug 27, 2025
    70
    The album is tight and fiery, as she ruminates on the state of the world.

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