Margo Price Joins Forces With Jesse Welles For Freewheeling Single & Bob Dylan-Inspired Video, “Don’t Wake Me Up”
July 15, 2025
Today, Margo Price joins forces with Jesse Welles to release new single “Don’t Wake Me Up,” revealing another side to the bulletproof songwriting, relentless grit and unshakable self-belief that make her a hard headed woman. Evoking the essence of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – and paying direct homage with the Hannah Gray Hall-directed music video – the latest preview of Margo’s forthcoming album, Hard Headed Woman, is a freewheeling country rocker that chugs through hundreds of masterfully-spun words, as it takes the listener on a trip to dozens of places that are all better than here. “The way the world is going, ain’t where I’m at,” howl Price and Welles in unison, willing themselves to dream away the politician screaming on the television, or the madness seeping through the internet. “And sooner or later we’ll all be dead, I’d rather be living it up, up in my head.”
In between uncanny, siren-esque rituals of line-dancing in the woods, the accompanying video for “Don’t Wake Me Up” finds Margo Price in a field, dive bar, cow pasture, cemetery, honky tonk, factory, liquor store, bowling alley, trailer park, Waffle House, Midwest strip mall and more of the locations sung throughout the song.
Listen to “Don’t Wake Me Up” (feat. Jesse Welles), and watch the video directed by Hannah Gray Hall: HERE
Arriving on the heels of “Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down” – an underdog anthem that nods to Kris Kristofferson, Sinéad O’Connor, The Handmaid’s Tale and co-writer Rodney Crowell – “Don’t Wake Me Up” was partly inspired by the boundless work of one of Margo Price’s favorite poets, Frank Stanford. The song began as a series of notebook entries that Price’s husband and collaborator Jeremy Ivey later stumbled upon, and she says:
“This song began as a poem a few years ago and was initially inspired by poet Frank Stanford. My husband and co-writer, Jeremy Ivey, found the idea I had scribbled from my abandoned notebook, and we resurrected it with a melody. The whole thing came together in ten minutes in one of those lightning bolt moments where you’re tapped into something bigger than yourself. I wanted to remind people of all the places and ways that we are still allowed to dream even when the outside world seems like a nightmare.
Jesse Welles is one of my favorite new songwriters and a rare prolific artist who really has something to say. I met him at Farm Aid and I became a big fan of his lyrics as well as his voice. I’m so grateful he could join me to sing on this song.”
Out August 29th on Loma Vista Recordings, Hard Headed Woman is a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects Margo Price with her roots, and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw. The album is a promise and a manifesto, a tribute to both a city and genre, a defiant cry for individuality and deep exploration of America, doubling down not only on herself, but what she has always loved: classic songs written from the intellect and the gut, timeless and urgent all at once.
This October and November, backed by a brand new live band and armed with her newly-launched, signature Gibson J-45 guitar, Margo Price will bring the music of Hard Headed Woman on the road for the Wild At Heart Tour. Announced today, the run features nearly two dozen headline dates throughout North America, including Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and more that go on-sale at 10am local time this Friday, July 18th, with presales beginning at 10am local time tomorrow. Before then, Margo Price will also play Newport Folk Festival, dates with Mumford & Sons, Farm Aid and other festivals across the country. Find the full list below, and tickets at margoprice.net/tour.
Reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang, and recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, Hard Headed Woman is the first album that Price has made in Nashville, a town she has called home for more than 20 years, and vitally helped to transform, creating a lane where independent and insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Tracing her battle from dive bars to tour buses, through parenthood and marriage, scrutiny and sacrifice in a town that prizes uniformity and the bottom line, this is an album of country music as only Margo Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard-headed with a delicate heart.
In the decade since working with producer Matt Ross-Spang on her first two albums – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter and All American Made – Margo Price played Saturday Night Live, earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best New Artist, became the first female musician appointed to the Farm Aid Board of Directors, and collaborated with everyone from Willie Nelson to Billy Strings, Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, Jack White, John Prine, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, Mavis Staples, Sierra Ferrell, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers and more. She released four acclaimed LPs and published a lauded memoir (Maybe We’ll Make It, out on paperback September 2nd), and fearlessly pushed herself to explore new sounds and places.
Margo Price Tour Dates
7/27 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
7/29 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park w/ Mumford & Sons
7/31 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater w/ Mumford & Sons
8/1 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater w/ Mumford & Sons
8/3 – Portland, ME – Back Cove Music & Arts Festival
9/6 – Grand Rapids, MI – Grand Rapids Riverfest
9/7 – Evanston, IL – Evanston Folk Festival
9/13 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks w/ Greensky Bluegrass
9/14 – Templeton, CA – Whale Rock
9/20 – Minneapolis, MN – Farm Aid
9/27 – Dana Point, CA – Ohana Music Festival
10/2 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic (A Tribute to Emmylou Harris)
10/5 – Ocean City, MD – Country Calling Festival
10/11 – Livingston, KY – Moonshiners Ball
10/23 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall*
10/24 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads*
10/25 – Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre*
10/28 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre*
10/29 – Fargo, ND – Sanctuary Events Center^
10/31 – Bozeman, MT – The ELM^
11/1 – Jackson Hole, WY – Jackson Hole Center for the Arts – Center Theater^
11/2 – Missoula, MT – The Wilma^
11/4 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre #
11/5 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre #
11/7 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #
11/8 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall #
11/9 – Crystal Bay, NV – Crystal Bay Club Casino – Crown Room #
11/11 – South Salt Lake City, UT – The Commonwealth Room!
11/12 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen!
11/14 – Dallas, TX – Longhorn Ballroom!
11/15 – Austin, TX – Emo’s!
11/16 – Helotes, TX – John T. Floore’s Country Store!
11/18 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse^
11/20 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium %
11/21 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall %
11/22 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall %
3/20-3/25 – Miami, FL – Outlaw Country Cruise