I should have expected how much I'd enjoy this read. From Midwest Farmer's Daughter to That's How Rumors Get Started (and beyond), I've lapped up Margo's songs. This tale of her upbringing, her hardscrabble times in Nashville to become the successful songstress she is today, her loves and losses – it was a joy, if sometimes tough to read.

Some of her best writing in this memoir is tragically about her baby who died a couple days after birth. It's lucid and despairing and beautiful and sad all at once. She really paints a picture with those scenes of a little life gone far too soon.

Shenanigans ensue, as must happen for a singer-songwriter on the up, and Margo gets away with and from a few shabby or sordid situations. The stories cast an additional layer over her albums and songs that I hold closest, and that's a good thing.

Postscript: Check out her "Runaway Horses" podcast if you'd like to listen to her in conversation with quite a few great artists, and Hanif Abdurriqib has a great episode with Margo herself on his "Object of Sound" pod to boot.