''Strays'' is the fourth studio album by American

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musician Margo Price, released on January 13, 2023, by

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. The album was produced by Price with musician Jonathan Wilson at his Fivestar Studio in

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, and features contributions from Mike Campbell (formerly of

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, and whom Price recorded with for the second Dirty Knobs album, ''External Combustion''), Sharon Van Etten, and Lucius. The album will be re-released as ''Strays II'' along with nine new songs that were first issued in sets of three as three "acts" on October 13, 2023.

Promotion

Alongside recording the album, Price completed a memoir, ''Maybe We'll Make It'', released in October 2022 by

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. Price completed a book tour that ran through November 2022 and then opened the "'Til the Wheels Fall Off Tour" in December 2022, with plans to promote ''Strays'' through March 2023. The first single released from ''Strays'' was "Been to the Mountain". on August 25, 2022. When Price announced the album in September 2022, she also released the second single, "Change of Heart". Further, in November 2022, a third single, "Lydia", was released in promotion of the album, a song Price described as "a moving collection of words about bodily autonomy and women's rights" and noted was inspired by her passing a women's health clinic years earlier on tour in

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, and recorded prior to the

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'' in June 2022.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians * Margo Price – vocals (all tracks); bells, maracas,

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(track 1); percussion (2, 4, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (3, 7, 9) * Alex Muňoz –

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, background vocals (all tracks); electric guitar (1–8, 10),

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(3, 10), acoustic guitar (4, 5),

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(5, 7, 10) * Jamie Davis – acoustic guitar, background vocals (all tracks); electric guitar (1–6, 8, 10) * Jeremy Ivey – acoustic guitar (all tracks), bass guitar (3, 8) * Dillon Napier – drums (1–7, 10), drum machine (3), percussion (4, 5) * Micah Hulscher – keyboards (all tracks), organ (1, 2, 4–7), piano (1–3, 5–8, 10), synthesizer (1–3, 5–7, 10),

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(1, 2),

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(6) * Kevin Black – bass guitar (2, 4–7) * Mike Campbell – electric guitar (2) * Jonathan Wilson – Moog bass (3, 6, 8); guitar,

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(3); bells, piano (6); acoustic guitar, castanets, tambourine (7); percussion (8, 10) * Sharon Van Etten – vocals (3) * Ny Oh – vocals (5, 10) * Dexter Green – drums (8) *

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– vocals (8) *

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– vocals (8) * Jacob Braun – cello (9) * Zach Dellinger – viola (9) * Andrew Bullbrook – violin (9) * Wynton Grant – violin (9) Technical * Jonathan Wilson –

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, recording production, mixing (all tracks);

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(3) * Margo Price – co-production (all tracks); recording production, engineering (3); music production (6) * Dexter Green – co-production (3, 8); music production, engineering (6) * Lawrence Rothman – co-production, engineering (7) * Adam Ayan – mastering * Grant Milliken – engineering (1, 2, 5, 10) * Parker Cason – engineering (4, 9) * Joe Trentacosti – engineering (6), engineering assistance (3) * Louis Rememapp – engineering (7) * Anita Agoyan-Miu – engineering assistance (1, 2, 5, 10) * Liv Painter – engineering assistance (7) * Frankie Fingers – engineering assistance (9)

References

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