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These days, when people think about music associated with cannabis, rap and hip-hop are probably the first genres that come to mind. While very few people may associate cannabis and country music, country legends like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash have been singing about it since the \u201970s. Many contemporary country singers are still sharing their love of weed, like Old Crow Medicine Show, Kacey Musgraves and the rising country star Margo Price.<\/p>\n
Price\u2019s first solo album, a 2016 release called \u2018Midwest Farmer\u2019s Daughter\u2019, debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard\u2019s Country Albums chart and received widespread praise, including\u00a0The American Music Prize<\/a>\u00a0for the best debut album of 2016. NPR Music called it \u201cthe hard-won arrival of an artist who feels like she\u2019s always been here.\u201d Her follow-up release album, \u2018All American Made,\u2019 was\u00a0praised<\/a>\u00a0by Pitchfork as tackling \u201cSteinbeck-sized issues with a no-bullsh*t humility in search of answers.\u201d Now, after achieving success in the musical realm, Price is also following in the footsteps of cannabis country icon Willie Nelson with a plan to release her own special strain of\u00a0Willie\u2019s Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cannabis Now had the pleasure of catching up with Price for a 4:20 p.m. session after her performance at San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0Outside Lands Music Festival<\/a>\u00a0to talk about the role cannabis plays in her creative process, her collaborations with Nelson and her love of solar bowls. The fog wasn\u2019t the only haze clouding the skies around the Sutro Stage when Price launched into an incredible cover of Tom Petty\u2019s \u201cLast Dance with Mary Jane,\u201d and through the smoke, you could see Price, a headliner of the\u00a02018 Emerald Cup<\/a>, play guitar, drums and even a tambourine.<\/p>\n Margo Price performs at San Francisco\u2019s Outside Lands in 2018. Photo Mitchell Colbert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Cannabis Now:<\/b>\u00a0What drew you to country music as a genre?<\/b><\/p>\n Margo Price:<\/b>\u00a0Country has always been something that I loved. I grew up listening to rap, but I came back around to country and that is what everyone knows me for. For a long time, I didn\u2019t like mainstream country music, I liked Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn \u2014 stuff like that. I grew up in a very rural area of Illinois, and my dad was a farmer who grew corn and soybeans and we raised some cattle too, but he lost the farm when I was very young. Family farms today are closing at a crazy fast rate, it\u2019s a crisis we\u2019re having.<\/p>\n That was a great cover of \u201cLast Dance with Mary Jane.\u201d What inspired you to play it?<\/b><\/p>\n That\u2019s a good festival song because it appeals to people who aren\u2019t into country. It\u2019s something that everybody likes. There are a few people who are like, \u201cI don\u2019t like Tom Petty,\u201d but they\u2019re just being arbitrary. If you don\u2019t like Tom Petty, I don\u2019t trust you.<\/p>\n What role does cannabis play in your creative process? Are there any songs where it played a notable role?<\/b><\/p>\n I wrote \u201cHurtin\u2019 On the Bottle<\/a>\u201d when I was blind drunk on my back porch and definitely smoking a few joints too. I was with my husband and another couple, which has now broken up. My husband is my co-songwriter and was up there onstage playing guitar and harmonica with me.<\/p>\n Photo Cameron Gott<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I have read that your preferred way to smoke cannabis is with a solar bowl. What originally got you using a magnifying glass to smoke weed?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b>I found out about it probably a decade ago, through my friend Isaac. He would be like, \u201cLet\u2019s go up on that mountain and do some solar rips.\u201d It gets you active and out in the world because you can\u2019t do it at night.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got [my magnifying glass] with me, and even though we have a lot of cloud cover, I was able to get one. I like to smoke out of an apple with a solar hit because it tastes better and there is no butane. I will do my sunshine bowls during the day and at night I will eat a little\u00a0indica<\/a>\u00a0edible, like a Cheeba Chew.<\/p>\n How did you first cross paths with Willie Nelson?<\/b><\/p>\n I went on his bus with him and he passed me a joint and the rest is history. I started opening Farm Aid for him. This coming Farm Aid will be my third year. I have also played his Fourth of July picnic, which has been going on since the early \u201970s and everybody played it back in the day. It is so great. We played a little duet together too called \u201cLearning to Lose<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n There is a photo of him and I in his bus the first time I smoked with him that my friend from Sirius XM Radio snapped of me. I look so happy and Willie is staring right at the camera and he has a big smile on his face\u2026 Solid gold.<\/p>\n Photo Levi Manchak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I heard you are launching an indica strain with Willie\u2019s Reserve. What made you choose an indica? What\u2019s your favorite strain?<\/b><\/p>\n That\u2019s like asking what\u2019s your favorite song! It\u2019s hard to pick one, but maybe Girl Scout Cookies. My Willie\u2019s Reserve strain has become a favorite recently. My strain has become a favorite strain recently because I find, as I get little a bit older \u2014 especially after I went through a car accident and whiplash \u2014 that I have insomnia. Indicas really chill me out and are way better than any pain pill. If I need to sleep or have a headache or cramps, indicas are there for me. That being said, I also love\u00a0sativas<\/a>. It\u2019s great if I need to clean my house, organize things and write songs.<\/p>\n The Willie\u2019s Reserve crew had joints rolled of 20 to 25 different strains and we smoke tested them all. I narrowed it down to my top three. Then I did the apple test with a solar bowl. My strain is a Raspberry Kush mixed with OG Blackfire. Purple is my color and my strain was the most purple out of all the ones we tried, with a really fruity flavor. For now, my strain will just be initially available in Colorado, but I really hope it launches in California soon. Since it can be difficult to bring genetics to another state, another option is having a sativa in California.<\/p>\n Photo Angelina Castillo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The song \u2018All American Made\u2019 talks about liver failure and Ronald Reagan selling weapons in the \u201980s, both things tangentially relating to drugs. Is it a song about the opiate epidemic?<\/b><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think that many people picked up on that kind of play on it. I was a child of the \u201980s and I wanted to talk about how Reagan was a celebrity president and was damaging to our generation. The whole war on marijuana has been going on for ages and this reefer madness fear just keeps happening in different forms, even with\u00a0Jeff Sessions<\/a>\u00a0now. [The song] was a way for me to talk about things without it being completely now, it was an echo of my childhood that felt reminiscent of what is going on now with the celebrity president.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, what\u2019s your favorite Margo Price song?<\/p>\n Originally published in Issue 34 of Cannabis Now.\u00a0LEARN MORE<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n The post \u2018All American Made\u2019 Singer Margo Price Opens Up About Her Love of Cannabis<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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