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''All American Made'' is the second studio album by American
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musician
Margo Price Margo Rae Price (born April 15, 1983) is an American country singer-songwriter and producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. ''The Fader'' has called her "country's next star." Her debut solo album ''Midwest Farmer's Daughter'' was released on Thi ...
. The album was released on October 20, 2017, by
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. In November 2017, the album debuted at number 89 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album reached #1 in the Official Country Artists Chart in its third week of release in the UK. In interviews for the album's release, Price noted the influence of
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on her songwriting. She dedicated the album to him following his death in early October 2017. Price promoted the album with the Nowhere Fast tour that started in September 2017 and concluded in March 2018.


Critical reception

''All American Made'' received positive reviews from professional music critics, and it has been given a rating of 82 on
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based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
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of
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wrote that in a shift from the personal vignettes of her debut album, Price does not disguise her liberal politics in this album, and she also broadens her musical range "drawing an expansive portrait of American roots music, one that touches on R&B, Tex-Mex, girl group pop, spacy indie rock, and even Glen Campbell's trippiest moments", which are "unified by a musical and lyrical aesthetic that views American life not only as a continuum, but a place where the past and present, rural and urban are in constant dialogue." Leonie Cooper of ''
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'' noted that it is an album that harks back to the country genre's more authentic beginnings, and that by "adding a decent dose of 2017 into her classic sound, Price creates something truly great." Jonathan Bernstein of ''
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'' compares Price's album to the best work of the seventies of
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, who dueted with Price in "Learning to Lose", in that it is "both reverent and revolutionary, a traditional-minded statement that nevertheless blazes an urgent path forward."


Accolades


Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 89 on Billboard 200, No. 12 on Top Country Albums and No. 4 on Americana/Folk Albums, with 7,000 copies sold. The album has sold 33,700 copies in the United States as of February 2019.


Track listing


Personnel

Album Band *Margo Price – vocals, percussion (1, 3, 5, 7, 11), acoustic guitar (4, 7, 9, 12), nylon string guitar (5), harmonies (5, 7, 8, 9) *Jeremy Ivey – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass (5), harmonica (9, 10), harmonies (9) *Dillon Napier – drums *Kevin Black – bass *Micah Hulscher – piano (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9), Mellotron (6, 9), synthesizer (6, 7), Wurlitzer (7, 10), organ (3), accordion (5) *Luke Schneider – pedal steel, dobro (5) *Jamie Davis – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (10) Additional Musicians *Alex Muñoz – baritone guitar (6), electric guitar (11, 12), percussion (10), e-bow (11) * Josh Hedley – fiddle (2, 8, 11), harmonies (2, 11) *Ashley Wilcoxson & Erin Rae – background vocals (7, 8) *Lester Snell – string arrangement (3, 4) *Willie Nelson – vocals and "Trigger" (4) *Mickey Raphael – harmonica (4) *Cory Younts – mandolin (5) *The McCrary Sisters – background vocals (10) *Matt Ross-Spang – Moog synthesizer (12) *The East Nashville Orphan Choir – background vocals (12)


Charts


References


External links

* * {{Authority control 2017 albums Margo Price albums Third Man Records albums Albums produced by Matt Ross-Spang