Margo Price first heard Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)” sung by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue. She’s been singing it herself for years, including at the 2025 Newport Folk Festival, where she called out ICE from the stage before launching into the song. Now, on Days Of Unrest, she gets to sing it with Baez. You can hear how much the song means to Price in the room she leaves for the voice that brought her to it in the first place.

Released digitally over the Fourth of July weekend, the nine-track collection is now being released on vinyl and CD. Producer Matt Ross-Spang brings together songs Price has been playing live, a few of her own, and a pair of performances with Memphis Mariachi. The group joins Price and Baez on “Deportee,” Guthrie’s response to the way Mexican farmworkers killed in a 1948 plane crash were reduced to a label in news reports. They also play on “De Colores,” a traditional Mexican folk song that became an anthem of the farmworkers’ movement. Putting those two songs back to back lets you hear a community sing before Guthrie asks you to remember the people it lost.

Price takes a sharper tone on Blaze Foley’s “Oval Room,” a song aimed at Ronald Reagan that still has plenty of bite, and she lets the band cut loose on Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm.” There’s a different kind of stubbornness in Charlie Daniels’ “Long Haired Country Girl,” which she sings with Billy Swan, and in “Can’t Stand Still,” an original that goes back to her Buffalo Clover days. Three short “San Marcos” instrumentals, written with Jeremy Ivey and recorded with the Price Tags, give the record a little breathing room.

The last of those instrumentals follows “Maggie’s Farm.” After Dylan’s famous refusal to go back to work, Price gives her band two minutes to play the record out. The words have already done their work, especially the ones she and Baez sing about people whose names should have made the papers.