Daily Discovery: Buffalo Clover, “The Ruse”

ARTIST: Margo Price- Buffalo Clover

SONG: The Ruse

BIRTHDATE: TAX DAY

HOMETOWN: Big Mouth, USA

CURRENT LOCATION:  East Nashville

AMBITIONS: To have less ambition probably. It is important to do the best work possible without expecting a reward… Success is just as dangerous as failure.

TURN-OFFS: Prudes, paperwork, Kansas, martyrs, sports fanatics, faux hawks, toe shoes… on second thought, Kansas is cool.

TURN-ONS: Canadian Tuxedos, Francois Villon, motorcycles, roses, white tequila, London, Spanish Moss, George Harrison- especially ‘All Things Must Pass’ Era

DREAM GIG: Once I dreamt I was on the way to a gig and there was a horse in the front struggling to drive while I sat in the back of the truck.

FAVORITE LYRIC: Hmmm… at the moment, Satisfied Mind-

How many time have you heard someone say/ If I had money I’d do things my way

But little they know that it’s so hard to find/ One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: Willie McGee

SONG I WISH I WROTE: Patrick Sweany ‘It’s Spiritual’

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Alive?  Pope Francis, Cass McCombs, Darlene Love, Louis CK, Patti Smith

Dead: Gram Parsons, Norma Jean Baker, Richard Manuel, John Fire Lame Deer and…. Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bartrand de Beauvoir

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: My band playing personally- Festes de Les Corts in Barcelona. And as the audience- Charles Bradley. He made me cry.

I WROTE THIS SONG: After our band was almost arrested in Alabama on our way to a play a music festival.