Margo Price: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Bob Boilen | November 28, 2016 — When I greeted Margo Price in the NPR garage before her Tiny Desk performance, tears were streaming down her face. It was Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, the day after the 2016 election. For her — as for many Americans — it was a stunning and bewildering moment in time, a day when life and the everyday took on new meaning. And so when she and her band began to play “All American Made,“ a song she’s sung many times before, those words about America’s changes and failures in the 21st century seemed even more powerful. Margo Price is a Nashville-based musician, the sort of country artist that captures the hearts of those both inside and outside the country-music scene. Her debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, is one of the brightest moments in country in a very strong year. As this Tiny Desk progresses, even “Four Years Of Chances,“ her song of a love gone wrong, feels less about a lousy husband and more about presidential politics. She dedicates her third and final song, “About