Maybe We'll Make It
A Memoir
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An October 2022 IndieNext pick
”[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor.”—Kirkus, starred review
”Brutally honest…a vivid and poignant memoir.”—The Guardian
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache.
Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break, and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling “Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility,” Price shares the stories that became songs, and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women. Now an award-winning artist with a global fanbase, Price tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grammy-nominated musician Price chronicles in her dazzling debut her hardscrabble path through addiction, poverty, and loss on the way to becoming a successful recording artist. Born in 1983 in Aledo, Ill., Price displayed a talent for music early on (her mother and grandmother, she writes, "insist I sounded like a full-grown woman when I sang, despite being only nine years old"), and though she excelled in the school choir, verbal and physical abuse from schoolmates led her to drinking and an eating disorder to escape the despair and loneliness. Eventually finding solace in journal writing and playing guitar, Price dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to pursue her musical dreams. But as she reveals in spare and affecting prose, pursuing success came at a cost: surviving near poverty and working a series of menial jobs, she began an arduous 11-year climb up the musical ladder through open mic nights, nightclub gigs, and cross-country tours. After losing a baby to a heart defect in 2010, Price resolved to confront her addictions and poured her heartache into her songs, landing a recording deal with Third Man Records ("my dark horse") and an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Told with moving candor, Price's tale of overcoming squalor and pain provides powerful emotional context to her hard-won country music stardom. Fans will adore this story of survival.
