And we would be quiet so that she wouldnt get in trouble because it was a lot then to be a single mom and deal with the difference in pay for men versus women. Yeah without you asking. But they took me seriously, but they also knew the seriousness and the impact of the help that they were giving me. Amanda Shires. On August 10, my life was savedthese are some dark days.. Like, I know that in all of the searching that he did still believe that there was something bigger out there. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. Likewise, the changes underway to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg could also mean that abortion rights will come under fire nationally. Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. And your verse, you are somebody who thinks of herself as a healer but was hung in the gallows during the Salem witch trials. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. She makes the decision before it gets to the point where she makes a mistake, and I like that. And Zachs going to play guitar. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. Video Playlist: Drive-By Truckers Play Pared-Down Southern Rock, You can still find those adventures if you surround yourself with the right people, Isbell tells Rolling Stone, sitting at a picnic table on the roof of the Port City Music Hall in Portland, Maine, where hell perform in a couple of hours, a few days after his Newport set. 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. Oh, I could have crowed. People forget that, if you take away access to reproductive healthcare, youre going to be killing moms like me. Thats the song Faultlines, performed by Amanda Shires with Zach Setchfield on guitar in Amandas home studio outside of Nashville, Tenn. Thats one of the songs on her new album, Take It Like a Man. So lets talk about that song a little bit. Why not? My focus stays strong I can work on a song for six or seven hours in one day, and not get bored or tired of it.. Where does that get us with our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights? Im going to play fiddle and Im going to sing in. This has been the hardest year. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. GROSS: Oh, thats great. But it was true. Do you have you do a great version of Im Your Man, his song, Im Your Man, on YouTube. But I think she probably knew. As it turns out, it did start some conversations within our own families. So I think she did a good job. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? Thank you for doing the interview. And she also plays in her husband, Jason Isbells, band. Well definitely get to your verse, which is the second one. SHIRES: (Singing) I was a healer. And I told my mom to come over because I had something to show her. And then I thought about Waylon and Kris and them of The Highwaymen, and I was like, they were kind of speaking about ageism. And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. Thats the percentage of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 who have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death, according to the CDC. You slammed the door so hard I still hear rattling spoons. SHIRES: Oh, right, in Alcatraz. Amanda Rose Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. And hed play songs, and Id learn them. And I was really into that.. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. She was in her home recording studio with her fiddle and with guitarist Zach Setchfield, and they played a few songs. In 2020, The Highwomen won album of the year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. McWhorter, who had played fiddle in Bob Wills band, became her teacher, and when Shires was just 15, he asked her to join The Texas Playboys. Here Are The Republicans Who Want Him Kicked Out, Rupert Murdoch Must Tell Fox News Hosts To Stop Spreading Election Lies, Congressional Democrats Demand, Trump Attacks Rupert Murdoch And Fox NewsAgainClaiming Destruction Of America Amid Defamation Lawsuit, These U.S.-Listed Stocks SurgeAlibaba, Baidu And MoreAfter Chinas Economic Rebound, Top NFL Prospect Jalen Carter Charged For Alleged Role In Fatal Street Race, Bite-Sized TikTok Poetry Blows UpAlong With Growing Claims Of Plagiarism, As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe, Live Nation Allows Artists to Require Vaccination or Proof of Negative Test Result for U.S. Concerts. We just couldnt get along. Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat, shook and quivering. And her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. Well be right back after a short break. And so you know Ill say, I dont know, but no ones going to be asking me. People forget, Shires says. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. I had no problem taking direction, but and I had no problem helping when I needed to help, so. Were you in Texas at the time? Im glad to be a listener and also glad to see folks from those generations supporting the right to choose. SHIRES: Sure. No more? But through the process of making the record and all the things that go with that, the hours and the tedium, it got easier for us to have conversations, not because we were doing the work of addressing the problems, but because we found common ground on something again, which has always been music and words.. The tracks release Despite the many questions as to why she was undergoing the procedure which she described as having "cells removed" despite trolls labeling her a "baby killer" Shires wrote at the time, "The reasons that I chose to have an abortion are personal, and they are mine." It's a sentiment that Shires has echoed many times since. "I did a parking lot pirouette / I said, 'You're right I'm not done with you yet.'" And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. But she was very good at keeping a lot of secrets. Its no fun but well be alright.. And he was there for 25 years. And usually that works. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. And, you know, I didnt know that this was a thing you should normally ask to do cause I was young. He still cant seem to notice when the dishwashers unloaded and all the dishes are put away. We found all this out afterwards. And I dont know how I feel about that. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer and musician Amanda Shires. GROSS: You grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and Mineral Wells, Texas. Amanda Shires, performing during the Americana Awards at Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 22, 2021 in Nashville. Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. It made me think, You know, I bet our grandmothers are more pro-choice than everybody leads us to believe.. SHIRES: I really do feel like he did a lot of work for me that I dont have to do. ", In the bruising roots rocker "Eve's Daughter," propelled by a tense groove and serrated, scraggy guitar riffs, Shires plays the part of a woman so desperate to expand her horizons and satisfy her hunger that she's unafraid to take risks in the name of escape. What does that phrase mean to you? On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. And in this certain period of time, there was a lot. The attention hes getting for Southeastern, from the opening recovery track Cover Me Up and the brutally stark Elephant to the full-throttle raver Super 8, feels like its coming at the right time, after hed had ample opportunity to get good at what he does. GROSS: That your Father had spent 25 years in Alcatraz? And if anyone asks me, Ill say whats true I dont know. Which would I rather have? GROSS: Amanda Shires, how did you decide you wanted to write a song about abortion? ISBELL: (Singing) And all I could think to say was. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. I believe thats when that that became not an option. The former Drive-By Truckers newfound sobriety, a recurring topic of discussion (and of his exceptional songwriting), may have cost him some of his sense of adventure, but it has undoubtedly focused his attention on his craft. And Tommy said, if you can hold down that lower third harmony and Id love to, you know, have that spot filled. 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They all feel good, he says of making records, and they all feel really bad when youre working, simultaneously.. They might not have had a voice before or might have been cast out into the streets without any place to sleep had they mentioned it earlier in their lives. And the reason I think that my grandmother knew is because also lately, we found out that my moms oldest sister isnt doesnt have the same dad as her, as my granddad. Im on your side. How are we going to police that? When do you show him the songs? Curled up on the floor with it all. Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires to Serve as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. For my children, I did what I had to do. AMANDA SHIRES AND JASON ISBELL: (Singing) Everythings going to be OK. Its going to be all right. 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Say whatever feels better or whatever. Along Whereas before, I would just, in my mind, wish it was something different like Etta James or something. Its just like you would expect, but theres real, scientific proof for it now. I got up to sing, and I was like, oh, crap. For the past decade or so, Amanda Shires has sung about the dark shades of relationships lapsed communication, broken trust, fading intimacy with a devastating eye for detail. I never wouldve thought that before, but now I know its true. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. Members get extended access to PBS video on demand and more. And I thought if Im going to get any rest, Im going to have to do something about this. And why did you want to work it into a song? This is FRESH AIR. And I dont know. Elizaveta Porodina/Courtesy of the artist, Naming The Beast: Jason Isbell And Amanda Shires On Speaking Up In 2017. 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. Theyve ended shows with Neil Youngs Like a Hurricane or Van Morrisons Into the Mystic. Tonight its the Rolling Stones Cant You Hear Me Knocking, and its ecstatic. The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. You know, like, how does that go? And I said, I dont know. Its a lot like writing a song about it. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires perform at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. SHIRES: Oh, yeah. If you see my milk cow, please drive her on home cause I had no milk and butter no since my cows been gone. No way. No more? When it came down to it, when I finally got it done and recorded, Amy Coney Barrett had gotten sworn in. Boosted and very grateful for it., When a fan asked how his wife Amanda Shires and their daughter are feeling, Isbell answered, Mercy is negative with no symptoms and Amanda didnt come with me on this run, shes negative at home. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. And I was trying to sing that song A Little Walk With You (ph). SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. So lets do that. Theyre just songs because everybody goes through troubles in their relationship. Not standing up for folks is not helping and its not right. I wouldnt go back and change it. But I thought, what am I going to do about that in the event that she does go into country music? Tommy Duncan was the singer. Former Drive-By Trucker is enjoying a breakout moment with new album 'Southeastern'. And then and the words are amazing and always brought me a smile. When we overturn Roe, we risk going back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen. Then Im like, This is coming out now., Jason Isbell on the Art of the Livestream, Supporting Indie Record Stores, and That Feral Hogs Meme, Devon Gilfillian to Cover Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' With Jason Isbell, Grace Potter, Jason Isbell Blasts Van Morrison, Covers 'Into the Mystic'. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. I mean, only just now nine months later, interestingly enough have I returned to having normal periods. It felt like maybe wed both leave at the same time. SHIRES: We were writing that, and Brandi was like, Im going to take the first one. And the character you wrote yourself out to be, the flagship all part of my fooling. I got to a certain age and realized I couldnt be Indiana Jones.. 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