Margo Price Details New Album ‘Strays II’ & Shares New Songs Featuring Buck Meek, Jonathan Wilson & More

Margo Price announced Strays II, the follow-up to her 2023 opus Strays. The collection of nine new songs will arrive as three separate acts with each “telling its own unique story of live, grief and acceptance” as per press materials heralding Strays II.

Out today is Act I: Topanga Canyon. Act II: Mind Travel and Act III: Burn Whatever’s Left are due in the coming weeks before all 19 Strays and Strays II tracks will be featured on the double album’s digital release on October 13 and vinyl LP of nine new Strays II cuts on November 10.

All nine new cuts were recorded at Strays producer Jonathan Wilson‘s Topanga studio during the same sessions that yielded the original album. Many of the songs emerged at least in part from a six-day psilocybin trip that Margo Price took the summer prior with her husband and collaborator Jeremy Ivey.

Margo Price is joined by Jonathan Wilson, Big Thief‘s Buck Meek and singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ny Oh (Harry Styles) for one song each on Act I: Topanga Canyon. Read Margo Price’s statement on all three tunes and stream the songs below:

Strays

“The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago. I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: ‘Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.'”

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Closer I Get (feat. Ny Oh)

“‘Closer I Get’ (co-written with Jeremy Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, ‘Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying.’ I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip – sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.”

Malibu (feat. Jonathan Wilson, Buck Meek)

“‘Malibu’ was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our Airbnb. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutiae of the day, like ‘Ode to Billy Joe.’ Mike added the long ‘California’ yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. My favorite line is ‘love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel.'”

Margo Price and her band, The Price Tags, will soon embark on the fall leg of her ‘Til The Wheels Fall Off Tour. Price will mix headline dates with festival appearances and slots supporting Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Chris Stapleton across the U.S. from September 8 through November 3.

See the full list of Margo Price tour dates by scrolling below.

Strays II Tracklist

Act I: Topanga Canyon

1. Strays
2. Closer I Get (feat. Ny Oh)
3. Malibu (feat. Jonathan Wilson, Buck Meek)

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Act II: Mind Travel

1. Black Wolf Blues
2. Mind Travel
3. Unoriginal Sin (feat. Mike Campbell)

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Act III: Burn Whatever’s Left

1. Homesick (feat. Jonathan Wilson)
2. Where Did We Go Wrong
3. Burn Whatever’s Left

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