“It’s one of the most beautiful, living, breathing pieces of art – all the grime has just aged into the wood”: Margo Price on playing Willie Nelson’s Trigger, growing up with Gibson and bringing her signature J-45 to life

Margo Price Gibson J-45.

Nine years ago, Margo Price sold her car and pawned her wedding ring to finance her debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter. When she moved to Nashville in 2003, with husband Jeremy Ivey, the couple tried to adapt to a less risky approach to making money from her work.

Trying to imitate the glossy style of mainstream country, they wrote some songs to please a producer. “We created pen names because we didn’t want anyone to know it was us,” Price admits.