Margo Price is wearing her heart on her record sleeve

Margo Price is one of the rising stars of the American country scene, and her music is all the stronger for being informed by her experiences with addiction, prison and tragedy, writes Ed Power

MARGO Price has seen a few things in her 33 years. When she was a child, the bank foreclosed on the family farm in Illinois. A recovering alcoholic, she has spent time in prison for drunken misdemeanour. In 2010, she gave birth to twins only to lose one to a rare heart defect.

But she has drawn strength from such reversals rather than submit to despair. You can hear it on her remarkable debut solo record, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, released to widespread acclaim in 2015.