“The king is dead/he’s long gone,” Price sings in the chorus, before drawing out the line “long live the king.”
In the first verse, Price sings about Elvis Presley’s last night alive - singing Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” and taking pills before succumbing to a heart attack on August 16th, 1977. Margo Price both builds up and tears down her heroes in the previously unreleased song “Long Live the King.” A regular part of her live shows, the track has never appeared on an album and arrives Wednesday as the first installment of Price’s new mail-order record club.