SHIRES: Thats all you have to say? In "Leave It Alone," a song introduced by a brittle, programmed loop and a jangly, arpeggiated guitar figure, she elegantly describes exploring a new lover's body: "Hands find the places where they've never been, to know for themselves new surfaces / And mine, they've got a mind of their own / I can't leave it alone." Life cant help but interfere. The song is named "Parking Lot Pirouette" for its protagonist's graceful forwardness, her decisive movement to prolong a pleasurable dalliance. The most-watched episode was from April 8th, filmed the day after John Prine And I told my mom to come over because I had something to show her. And I remember the first time I sang ever, Leon Rausch had to hold my hand. Curled up on the floor with it all. Because thats not how I go into songwriting. You can just say Im crazy. And Zachs going to play guitar. You can call it serious trouble cause thats what I want. You used to lean in like I was whispering, any excuse to get near again. And I dont know how I feel about that. People forget, Shires says. A lark in the shower from the night to the morning after. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? Ive listened to all of his records. Its pretty obvious.. Ive found and scrounged and continue to for every interview that hes done in any form, in any language. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud, If you say those things out loud, it makes a difference. I didnt want to do more damage. Yeah without you asking. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. GROSS: So you ended up, like, accompanying him. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. Theres still just as much awe.. And you got your start professionally at age 15 playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys. And I said, Id love to. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. And from there, he introduced me to Frankie McWhorter. AMANDA SHIRES: (Singing) Youre leaving now through the hole of an argument. I hope that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it causes such a fucking uproar that we end up with more rights than we had before. Thats, like, part of your identity on Twitter. And she was also holding down a day job as a single mom. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? This is FRESH AIR. That way, there could be a more kind of a wider effort to try and have the conversation with folks and realize that youre not alone. SHIRES: Yep, yep on his songs without asking him. A few hours later, his band is peeling the wallpaper with their customary encore cover tune. Her new album is Take It Like a Man. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. And after we recorded it, he said, thats a really good song. Thank you for doing the interview. GROSS: What would the right voice for you like, whats wrong what doesnt match? The way she relaxes into low notes on that last line makes it sound far more like an unembarrassed confession than a complaint. Tax ID: 26-2810489, Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. On top of that, Shires notes, the pro-life stance doesnt typically extend past birth. When it reopened, he was in the first 200. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? And it was a Carrie Underwood song from it was, like, six years before that or something. SHIRES: Thank you so much. Thats what I want. I cant see a thing from here. Amanda Shires is a singing, songwriting. Along The Truth About Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell - TheList.com My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. And if you want another kind of love, Ill wear a mask for you. On August 10, my life was savedthese are some dark days.. Thanks., RELATED: Jason Isbell slams Morgan Wallens appearance at Grand Ole Opry: Not surprised Just sad, Jason Isbell on the road, hummingbirds, fan requests and critical thinking in America, Jason Isbell on COVID vaccine mandates at concerts: No, were not taking away your freedom. And then and neither of them told us that stuff. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Celebrate Vinyl and Indie Retail as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors: Were Building the Embassy as We Speak. You can say its all my fault. But anyway so I went and I sat down in my barn of internal wandering. So either you have surgery or I think you die. When we overturn Roe, we risk going back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen. Like, do you say, hey, honey, heres a song I wrote about how bad things are between us right now? And Milk Cow Blues goes like this. So I dont have to go trying to learn all these other things. But I had about seven different album sequences going on. After Isbell announced last week that he would require enhanced Covid countermeasures at his show in Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Marc Broussard took to Twitter to lash out at Isbell, calling him bourgeois and elitist. Broussard asserted, Some working-class fans cant afford the risks associated with either the vaccines or even getting a test, adding, Id rather quit music than become a pawn in the pressure campaign. He did not provide any evidence of the risks he claimed were associated with getting the jab or receiving a test. It rings out like its supposed to. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. In 2020, The Highwomen won album of the year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. Shires new album, Take It Like A Man, includes several songs she wrote that came out of a difficult period in her marriage to Jason Isbell. I dont care if somebody wants to put a target on me. My best hope is that people continue to get angrier and that the folks who have been fighting so hard for so long, and are already tired, find some strength to keep fighting and also to mobilize others, especially youth, along the way. AL.com spoke to Isbell last September about when he decided implementing these COVID restrictions at his shows was the right thing to do, how this stance has affected the relationship with some of his fans, what its like to finally hit the road and play again and what it will take for Alabama to have a change of heart on getting vaccinated. Refunds at point of purchase but were working on rescheduling. We found out that, yes, our grandmothers are pro-choice. I didnt start learning how to accept my voice until recently. So it was just like a week and a half or two weeks afterwards that Texas banned abortion. And it was much safer for us to sleep in the closet with the TV at the bail bonding place than to be left to her own devices at home. Demographer Diana Greene Foster conducted a 10-year study tracking both people who had abortions and people who were denied abortions. And how did you figure out what you wanted your point of view to be, you know, like, who the song would be about? And luckily, my teacher was one of those good and rare teachers that notices when you know, when a student needs a little more help. Well close with the opening track from Amanda Shires new album. ISBELL: (Singing) And all I could think to say was. SHIRES: (Singing) Trying not to think of names. SHIRES: Ive listened to all of his records. And sometimes, you know, you can, like, cup your hands and drink water from them or you could cup your hands and I dont know. Shires new album, Take it Like a Man, includes several songs she wrote during a rough period in her marriage to musician Jason Isbell. It just seemed like the right thing to do because I dont want to spend my time on stage worried about if Im making people sick.. Jason Isbell and his wife, Amanda Shires, were walking around last weekend in Newport, Rhode Island, where they played the Newport Folk Festival. My daughter was about a year old, and I was getting into my touring van because I hadnt worked my way into a bus yet. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. So I think she did a good job. GROSS: Lets take another break here. As they talked, GROSS: How did you end up actually playing in the Texas Playboys band? Amy Salit and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. GROSS: Amanda Shires, its been such a pleasure to talk with you. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. So Im going to ask you to play one more song from your new album, to perform it for us. I remember I used to think the force was strong with him, says Tompkins, who signed his first publishing deal when he moved to Nashville at 22. But they took me seriously, but they also knew the seriousness and the impact of the help that they were giving me. And she would dance a little bit to the Beatles and stuff and started seeing the possibility that she might go into music one day. Why not? You slammed the door so hard I still hear rattling spoons. And that, to me, was incredible, because they had abortions in what was a pre-Roe v. Wade environment and theyre only now sharing their stories for the first time. GROSS: One of the things I love about his music is the way he combined the spiritual and the profane in his songs and the spiritual and, like, anger and resentment and despair. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) Three months after an emergency heart transplant, Grammy-nominated keyboardist, producer, songwriter and artist Peter Levin And then my mom would drive me down there. We found all this out afterwards. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. SHIRES: It was because Tommy Allsup was living in Snyder, Texas, at that time, and he was running the Bob Wills band. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. Amanda Shires was named emerging artist of the year at the 2017 Americana Music and Honors Awards Ceremony. Trending In a new interview, Shires who returns with her latest album Take It Like a Man in July goes deeper into her own experiences and calls on artists, especially those in Nashville, to start using the platforms theyve been given. Thank you for your songs. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Why was that the verse that you wrote or sang for yourself? Here was my life five years ago, and heres my life now. I got to a certain age and realized I couldnt be Indiana Jones.. SHIRES: And I think Sheryl Crow plays bass on that one. It's not often in country musicor pop music for that matterin which an artist addresses a very personal and sensitive subject like abortion through a song. While the idea was mine, it wasnt only me that made this Highwomen be a thing. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. Can you play something that you think kind of epitomizes the style that you learned and fell in love with? It was it took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi, and then it took Natalie and Maren Morris. And in this certain period of time, there was a lot. I said, I just wrote this song. And I was trying to sing that song A Little Walk With You (ph). This part of my life and our marriage was difficult and it took me back to the reason I came to writing and doing music in the first place, which is expression, she says. Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. But and after you did the main melody part, you get to improvise. GROSS: Well, in 2020, you and your husband, Jason Isbell, recorded a duet of a song you wrote called The Problem. And the song is from the perspective of a teenage couple. GROSS: Good. Because once you have a baby, theres no social programming to help. Not saying something is not helping. And then my orchestra teacher recommended me to a private violin teacher. And I also want to thank Zack Sedgefield for playing guitar and also Diana Walsh, who engineered your end of the music and the conversation from your home studio in well, outside of Nashville. And Im coming for you like a hawk for the dove. And usually that works. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. And this is after some kind of nebulous argument. And here it sits. Oh, I could have crowed. Lets get back to my interview with Amanda Shires, a great singer and songwriter who also co-founded the band The Highwomen, which is a kind of all-star country music band. GROSS: So one of the ways you ended up becoming a songwriter as well as a singer and musician was that Billy Joe Shaver heard you play. I am your man. It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasnt an adventure, he says. After recording and touring for several years with the Drive-By Truckers, for whom he wrote standouts including Decoration Day, Outfit and Danko/Manuel, Isbell launched his solo career in 2007. Having recently moved to Nashville with Shires whose own fourth solo album, Down Fell the Doves, comes out next week the newlyweds will sequester themselves in different corners of the house to write new songs, then play them for each other. GROSS: Thats the title song from the new album. Then I tried recording it in a couple of other situations, and I just didnt have it right yet. SHIRES: Sure. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. What does that phrase mean to you? Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. Amid the rise in infections, it was reported last week that one of the worlds most prominent concert promoters, Live Nation, will allow artists performing at its venues to require guests in the U.S. to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test. And we had a TV that wed watch, you know, Saturday Night Live on Saturdays. And as it happened, eventually the auxiliary cable quit working in the van. And I know I can take it like a man. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. GROSS: Your mother earlier in her life worked as a bail bondsman, right? Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. And then you also youve got guys thatll back you up. For my children, I did what I had to do. GROSS: Lawrence Rothman produced your new album. I recorded my interview with her last week. GROSS: With the Texas Playboys when youre performing with them or something that you learned from one of your teachers but that really made you fall in love with the style and that epitomizes what that style is. GROSS: That sounds really, really awful. Say whatever feels better or whatever. So lets hear a song about when things werent so all right. And we met. We would sleep on the floor in the closet there because she would do the night shift, because she would was going to school in the daytime for being a nurse. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. SHIRES: I didnt know anything about them. 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