As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe (Rolling Stone), Live Nation Allows Artists to Require Vaccination or Proof of Negative Test Result for U.S. Concerts (Variety), This is a BETA experience. And it just worked when we did it. But this part of my life in our marriage was difficult. GROSS: OK. 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. It was keeping me up at night. And she was doing the bail bonding on the night. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. GROSS: So this track features you, Natalie Hemby and Yola as a guest artist on it. Theyre just songs because everybody goes through troubles in their relationship. The singer, songwriter and fiddler found comfort with an unexpected collaborator and plumbed new depths on her latest album, Take It Like a Man. Amanda And sometimes Tommy would show me stuff on guitar, like a melody to play, and then see if I could memorize it or retain it or whatever. But I thought, what am I going to do about that in the event that she does go into country music? Shed been learning to play classical music on SHIRES: She did. Thats the trick.. Shires told her producer Dave Cobb, who also served as bassist in the album's indie rock-leaning band (with Isbell on lead guitar), "My violin needs to sound like it's in an aquarium, but more bright. But and after you did the main melody part, you get to improvise. She was in her home recording studio with her fiddle and with guitarist Zach Setchfield, and they played a few songs. The tracks release Not standing up for folks is not helping and its not right. And while I I know the voice that I have is what I have. WebAmanda Shires - The Problem (feat. And the character you wrote yourself out to be, the flagship all part of my fooling. Then I told my friend Dave Cobb about my idea and he really liked it, and he said, Im going to have you meet Brandi Carlile. And I save them all. And then and neither of them told us that stuff. ", 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. And he said, try playing this one. GROSS: That your Father had spent 25 years in Alcatraz? Well be right back. 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And after we recorded it, he said, thats a really good song. 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. The next time Jason Isbell told Amanda Shires he wanted to quit, she began talking with his manager about facilitating a trip to rehab. However, the "night-before bender" nearly broke them. Shires told WNYC Studios, "He wanted to do every drug, drink every thing, drink the moonshine, all the late night stuff, it was crazy. And it took me back to the reason I came to writing and doing music in the first place, which is expression and trying to do something for me that could make me make sense, I guess. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. No way. 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. In 2020, The Highwomen won Album of the Year at the Americana Music Honors and Awards ceremony. Im not joking. And, you know, I didnt know that this was a thing you should normally ask to do cause I was young. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. And Zachs going to play guitar. It seems like a simple thing to say, but its really true. Im going to play fiddle and Im going to sing in. You may opt-out by, U.S. When her distinctive vibrato appears on To the Sunset, as a subtle emotive tool or punctuation in her storytelling, it feels like an electrical charge shuddering through the live wire of her voice. 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. And we met. 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The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist from Green Hill, Ala., made headlines in 2021 for requiring proof of vaccination or proof of a recent negative COVID test to attend his concerts. And it also made me stronger in the fact that I could feel comfortable singing about it and talking about it. As if to match it, she experimented for the first time with filtering the sound of her fiddle through effects pedals, which lends her playing a fierce luminescence. GROSS: Well, thank you for doing that. SHIRES: In 2016, I was going on the road. I remember thinking, Wow, theres a lot of potential for me to really mess this up.'. I also received responses from trolls. Jason Isbell Releases Death Wish' From New Album SHIRES: I forced myself in that position. It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment, strange as the blue up above. SHIRES: I really do feel like he did a lot of work for me that I dont have to do. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. The players in the band, they took me seriously as a player, but they also understood that I was a kid.. Tax ID: 26-2810489, Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. All Rights reserved. 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. Hearing Shires spell that out is invigorating. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. SHIRES: Well, myself and Brandi wrote the song. I laid hands upon the world. So its probably important to stay alive before you start questioning your liberty.. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. She gets pregnant and wants to have an abortion, although she doesnt feel great about it. And Empty Cups wasnt even the hardest one for me to put on there. She has a big conscience, a big heart. And I return to them often. She was going to school. hide caption. SHIRES: (Singing) If you want a lover, Ill do anything you ask me to. And I think they probably had conversations that you would, if you were that close to each other, about that stuff and didnt bring it up. But, yeah, after a while thinking about it, I got more comfortable with it. Or did you keep the songs, like, kind of secret for a while? She sings of the excruciating awareness of both mirroring and superseding her own mother. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? And because of that, I felt like we should make it something thats as safe as it can possibly be. So either you have surgery or I think you die. Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? I said, itd be cool if I was The Highwomen or maybe had a band The Highwomen. We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico. There were probably 2,500 people, and Im just standing there with a guitar, elevated and facing everyone. And from there, he introduced me to Frankie McWhorter. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. So I dont have to go trying to learn all these other things. GROSS: Your mother earlier in her life worked as a bail bondsman, right? I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. Ninety-five percent of study participants who did have an abortion still stood by their decision. In the past, white men have said otherwise. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. "Last night you walked me to my car / You said, 'You won't be getting far before you turn around,'" she sings, her phrasing seesawing and scampering. On Shires' latest record, her songwriting is more fearless and vulnerable than ever but as always, it's a reflection of an artist focused intently on community, equality Jason Isbell will put his tour on hold after announcing he tested positive with for COVID-19. So did you ever visit her at work? AMANDA SHIRES AND JASON ISBELL: (Singing) Everythings going to be OK. Its going to be all right. Too caught up in the way I want you rolling over me. And thank you so much for having me as a guest. Bergen is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. But she was very good at keeping a lot of secrets. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. So I think she did a good job. And I was reading mine. 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SHIRES: So I thought if I could write a song with my feelings in it, that it might bring him around to the walls that arent really walls that we put ourselves behind sometimes. And I know I can take it like a man. We try to have as much fun as possible singing a bunch of sad-ass songs, he said from the stage with one of the few grins hed allow himself. And we had a TV that wed watch, you know, Saturday Night Live on Saturdays. 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. And Tommy said, if you can hold down that lower third harmony and Id love to, you know, have that spot filled. So Im going to ask you to play one more song from your new album, to perform it for us. If youre just joining us, my guest is Amanda Shires, and her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. This is FRESH AIR. Im your Amanda. And it was a Carrie Underwood song from it was, like, six years before that or something. Lets get back to my interview with singer, songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. The song is called Empty Cups.. When it came down to it, when I finally got it done and recorded, Amy Coney Barrett had gotten sworn in. So by the time I went into the hospital, my fallopian tube had already ruptured. During "Break Out the Champagne," Shires wryly relates an account of a female friend who was dumped by a dullard, only to realize that he'd never really satisfied her anyway: "I'm rock and rock and roll, and you're golf." After trailing off there, she draws a thorny conclusion about the web of intimate, familial dependency: "Maybe being human is an orphaned condition and what's missing isn't what should be found. Shires character wrestles with the decision and the right thing to do in her situation, while Isbells character offers his support for whatever decision she makes. And, you know, she. Being from Muscle Shoals is kind of like having a cool tattoo or something., After getting sober, writing and recording the new album felt more natural to me, says Isbell, lighting a cigarette as seagulls caw overhead. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. You had an abortion. 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