“But honey, I would die for you.” It’s not hopeful, and it doesn’t need to be, coming from a woman who’s seen her share of shit. “I can’t live for them, it’s true,” she confesses. She’s disillusioned, but she holds onto love. This time, rather than retelling what she’s done, Price interprets what she sees: poverty, gentrification, greed, hate. “Some say ‘ours,’ some say ‘mine’ / But we all bleed the same blood,” she sings in one verse. She belts solo on this song, after leaning on the Nashville Friends Gospel Choir on a few of Rumors’ other big tracks. Those guitars could swallow up many singers in Nashville, but not Price. It’s built on slippery, loud guitars, keeping more rhythm than whatever drums and bass you may be able to hear.

“I’d Die for You” is the biggest song Price has ever made: rock music with psychedelic and gospel undertones, a hymn more focused on life than whatever comes after. Rumors spans heavy southern rock on “Twinkle Twinkle” to ’80s-ish New Wave on “Heartless Mind,” ending with a song more fitting for Woodstock than the Ryman.

But it took leaving White’s label and teaming up with fellow Nashville outsider Sturgill Simpson for Price to show off her rock bona fides. Her music always opted for more of an Americana flair, rather than leaning into the commercial pop-country trend, meaning she never broke into radio. Nashville didn’t want her she performed there for years before eventually signing to Jack White’s Third Man Records and selling her engagement ring to pay for sessions at legendary Sun Studio in Memphis. Price always stood out from the country crowd.

Die for you