Midwest Farmer's Daughter

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Midwest Farmer's Daughter
Margo Price - Midwest Farmers Daughter album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Margo Price
ReleasedMarch 25, 2016 (2016-03-25)
Genre Country
Length43:30
Label Third Man
Producer Alex Muñoz [1] & Matt Ross-Spang
Margo Price chronology
Midwest Farmer's Daughter
(2016)		 All American Made
(2017)
Singles from Midwest Farmer's Daughter
  1. "Hurtin' (On the Bottle)"
    Released: December 4, 2015 (2015-12-04) [2]
  2. "Hands of Time"
    Released: March 11, 2016 (2016-03-11) [3]

Midwest Farmer's Daughter is the debut studio album by American country singer Margo Price. Released on March 25, 2016, it was the first country album to be released on Third Man Records. [4] [5] Despite the album's limited commercial success, peaking at No. 189 on the Billboard 200, [6] it is considered by many publications and music critics to be one of 2016's best albums.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Production

Midwest Farmer's Daughter was recorded live to analog tape at the famed Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee and mixed at the nearby Ardent Studios. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 86/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [9]
Exclaim! 8/10 [10]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [13]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Spin 8/10 [15]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [16]
Uncut 8/10 [17]
Vice A− [18]

Midwest Farmer's Daughter received highly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 86 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 13 reviews. [8]

Will Hermes of Rolling Stone gave the album a favorable review, describing the vocal style of Price as "restrained yet mighty, her songcraft amazingly vivid, and the arranging instinct spot on". Hermes noted that Price had a "taste for retro styling", and that starting from the opening song, "Hands of Time", "you're reminded of the incredible power that lies in tradition well-used. It's a power the rest of this record makes plain." [14] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic saw Loretta Lynn as the primary inspirations of Price, but thought that even though the album may drift toward the traditional in some songs, "Price's sensibility is modern, turning these old-fashioned tales of heartbreak, love, loss, and perseverance into something fresh and affecting." [9] Paul Grein of Hits Daily Double predicted the album would be in contention for the Album of the Year award at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. [19]

Accolades

PublicationRankList
AllMusic N/ABest Albums of 2016 [20]
American Songwriter 3Top 50 Albums of 2016 [21]
BrooklynVegan 23Top Albums of 2016 [22]
Cosmopolitan 11The 15 Best Albums of 2016 [23]
Entertainment Weekly 15The 50 Best Albums of 2016 [24]
2The Best Country Albums of 2016 [25]
Exclaim! 3Top 10 Folk & Country Albums of 2016 [26]
FLOOD Magazine25Best Records of 2016 [27]
The Guardian 32The Best Albums of 2016 [28]
NME 3350 best albums of 2016 [29]
NPR 2050 Best Albums of 2016 [30]
Paste 12The 50 Best Albums of 2016 [31]
PopMatters 30The 70 Best Albums of 2016 [32]
Rolling Stone 340 Best Country Albums of 2016 [33]
2150 Best Albums of 2016 [34]
Rough Trade 3Albums of the Year [35]
Slant Magazine 17The 25 Best Albums of 2016 [36]
Stereogum 7The 20 Best Country Albums of 2016 [37]
Uncut 23Albums of the Year [38]

Commercial performance

Midwest Farmer's Daughter debuted at No. 189 on the Billboard 200. [39] It also debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the first time in the history of the chart (which started in 1964) a solo female has debuted in the top 10 with her first release without also having any history on the Hot Country Songs chart. [40] As of June 2017 the album has sold 52,600 copies in the United States. [41]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hands of Time"Margo Price6:10
2."About to Find Out"Price, Jeremy Ivey3:12
3."Tennessee Song"Price, Ivey4:40
4."Since You Put Me Down"Price, Ivey4:52
5."Four Years of Chances"Price4:33
6."This Town Gets Around"Price2:55
7."How the Mighty Have Fallen"Mark Fredson3:10
8."Weekender"Price4:40
9."Hurtin' (On the Bottle)"Price, Fredson, Ivey, Caitlin Rose 4:12
10."World's Greatest Loser"Price, Ivey1:34
11."Desperate and Depressed" 3:30
Total length:43:30

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic. [42]

Chart positions

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