And one day we wound up in the studio and we cut the song. And he said, well, you can always put it on there and just choose not to answer questions about it and, you know or you can he was pushing for me to leave Fault Lines on there because it is a good song, as he said. I cried, I asked and I balled. You know, like, how does that go? Maybe I was asking for a little too much. "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. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. I think a lot of women are born healers and nurturers. And nobody would let me in, but I sat there anyway. Is that right? Moon, in all your splendor. Thats what I want. These really arent personal. Also, during this time when I was leaving, I was thinking about how Mercy was you know, picked up a kazoo, and she could play a kazoo. SHIRES: I forced myself in that position. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. And I said, I dont know. I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. You can call it serious trouble cause thats what I want. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid- feeling fine but well have to cancel the next few shows (Asheville, Louisville, Columbus, Wilkes-Barre, and Wilmington). And if you want another kind of love, Ill wear a mask for you. SHIRES: (Singing) I was a healer. And I told my mom to come over because I had something to show her. (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, SWIMMER), GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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.. SHIRES: My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen. Well close with the opening track from Amanda Shires new album. And all I could think to say/Was everythings going to be OK/Its gonna be all right/Im on your side, he sings. And I dont know how I feel about that. Abortion Bans Are A Human Rights Crisis That Violate International Law, Groups Tell UN, Fallout As FIFA Appoints Supermodel Adriana Lima As Fan Ambassador Of Womens World Cup, SpaceX Rocket Launches Astronauts From U.S., Russia And UAE To International Space Station, Teslas Investor Day Is Long On Time, Short On Useful New Details, Biden Not Confident Supreme Court Will Uphold Student Debt Cancellation, RFK Killer Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole For 16th TimeReversing 2021 Decision, Scott Adams Undoing: A Timeline Of The Dilbert Cartoonists Fall From Grace, New Warning About Zero-Calorie Sugar Substitute: What Experts Are Saying About Erythritol, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Could Face Subpoena To Testify Before Congress, Bernie Sanders Says, Republican Sen. 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And if anyone asks me, Ill say whats true I dont know. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. That last talk left me a makeup rainbow of tears, turned everything blurry. And I know I can take it like a man. And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. He could still leave it dish in the sink, you know? Just admit Im what you want. And I know that he likes to help. I want Garth Brooks out there telling people that womens health is a priority. SHIRES: Oh, yeah. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. "Through a sunset, shifting gears, to the something better shining diamond clear.". It took me a minute to really learn how to improvise, Shires says of those early years. I just fell in love with the music, is what happened. Ive listened to all of his records. Like, I know that in all of the searching that he did still believe that there was something bigger out there, so I dont have to go trying to learn all these other things. I wouldnt go back and change it. The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn But I think folks forget that access to abortion and reproductive healthcare is not just about terminating unwanted pregnancy. A lark in the shower from the night to the morning after. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. SHIRES: And I think Sheryl Crow plays bass on that one. And hed play songs, and Id learn them. Here's why. So I would be studying my pieces. I own one of his guitars and. ", Shires and Isbell have a toddler daughter together, and thanks to gendered assumptions about the distribution of their parenting duties, Shires has fielded more than her share of questions about how she balances motherhood and music-making. SHIRES: I really do feel like he did a lot of work for me that I dont have to do. The song is called Hawk For The Dove.. Editors picks 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. She makes the decision before it gets to the point where she makes a mistake, and I like that. 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'. Which would I rather have? But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? And then in my mind I thought, well, if he couldnt hear the frequency of my voice before, maybe he could hear it through music, you know? And it was a picture of hands holding on to nothing. And (laughter) I, like, played the part. In 2020, The Highwomen won album of the year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. I am your man. And as it happened, eventually the auxiliary cable quit working in the van. 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. "I'm daring to do what she couldn't bring herself to do," Shires ruminates, shadowed by her own feathery harmonies. When I would write the songs, I dont know whats going to come out, but sometimes I was just so down that the only way I could get better was to take it out on writing a song., Shires sings and plays fiddle throughout this interview. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. SHIRES: I mean OK Im going to call her up after this, too. How did you decide to say that these songs are really about a bad period of your marriage? 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. The Highwomen were tapped as last-minute fill ins, though founding member Amanda Shires was unable to attend as she continues to recover from an emergency I didnt want to do more damage. To keep the newness from wearing off, for every start theres gonna be a stop. Its as opposed to being in the uterus, where it belongs. Is there a song that youd like to do? She sings of the excruciating awareness of both mirroring and superseding her own mother. So did you ever visit her at work? And I was reading mine. WebBEHIND THE SCENES with Amanda Shires | Backstage at the Ryman Presented by Nissan | Ryman Auditorium 11,820 views Jan 1, 2019 92 Dislike Share Ryman Auditorium Former Drive-By Trucker is enjoying a breakout moment with new album 'Southeastern'. 2023 WNET. Maintaining that vigilance and devoting necessary energy and attention to confronting and correcting not only sexual wrongdoing but warped thinking can be all-consuming. Amanda Shires. Amanda Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and violin player. She has performed as a member of the Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, as well as in a duo with Rod Picott. Shires has released six solo albums, her most recent To The Sunset on the Silver Knife label in 2018. All rights reserved (About Us). Theres so much attached to folks thinking women treat it as a kind of birth control. SHIRES: About singing, yes. Theres not a lot of filler, not a lot of songs I would skip through, he says. So I couldnt really get into it. And Id sit on his porch. Then I tried recording it in a couple of other situations, and I just didnt have it right yet. And he was there for 25 years. And I hadnt heard the fiddle being played at all. But whatever. In 2020, The Highwomen won Album of the Year at the Americana Music Honors and Awards ceremony. Like, I know that in all of the searching that he did still believe that there was something bigger out there. I guess for awhile youve been looking for the exit. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. And then you also get to play you get to improvise, which is when you go off the page, as they say, or you just play what you feel within the chords. And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. It's a sentiment that Shires has echoed many times since. In a June 2022 follow-up, the artist detailed for Rolling Stone her experience of ending a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy in August 2021. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. She performs in several settings and has received awards in each of them. Life cant help but interfere. When youre trying to make a tough decision, you need a lot of support. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I would have died; my daughter, Mercy, would have lost her mother; my husband, Jason, would be a widower. So thanks to them as well. In the past, white men have said otherwise. Shed been learning to play classical music on Shed been learning to play classical music on the violin at school when her music teacher introduced her to some of Frankie McWhorters fiddle tunes. He asserted that the band would cancel the concert if any venue refused to agree to their requirements. I know I can take it like Amanda. Lets start with a track from the new album. SHIRES: It was because Tommy Allsup was living in Snyder, Texas, at that time, and he was running the Bob Wills band. And then you also youve got guys thatll back you up. It seems like a simple thing to say, but its really true. OK. So its probably important to stay alive before you start questioning your liberty.. I had people threatening me. Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. Do you think God still sees me, coming out of this twilight sleep? she asks, before the band carries the song out with a powerful extended coda. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. I know I can take it like a man. GROSS: Well, I want to play a song performed by The Highwomen, and the song is actually called The Highwomen, and its a song sung from the point of view of different women. You can have as much fun. But I think she probably knew. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time How did you come up with the image of my hands are two empty cups? It sounds like you were about to leave the marriage. There were probably 2,500 people, and Im just standing there with a guitar, elevated and facing everyone. GROSS: I think its so interesting that your mother worked as a bail bondsman, not knowing that her own father had spent so much time in prison. SHIRES: Yep, yep on his songs without asking him. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. Thats abundantly clear on his breakout new album, Southeastern, one of the years best in any genre. 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." And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. With artists and concert promoters nationwide forced to confront a surging spike in infections and hospitalizations attributed to the spread of the delta variant, Grammy award-winning musician, Jason Isbell, announced Monday that he and his band, the 400 Unit, will require concertgoers to provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to attend all their future shows, whether they are held indoors or outdoors. Im your man. SHIRES: (Singing) If you want a lover, Ill do anything you ask me to. Where the fuck are the rest of them? A parking lot at night is a setting in which many women have learned to feel unsafe, to hurry about their business with heightened awareness that any strange figure approaching may have sinister intentions. Some people are upset at the way iPhones charge. You can say I lost my grip. As it turns out, it did start some conversations within our own families. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. Bergen is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. GROSS: So that was Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys from 1940, their song, New San Antonio Rose, with Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar. SHIRES: I just I have never been a fan of the way my voice sounds. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? 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. Along And Frankie and Lanny, my teachers we were at Lannys house the first time Tommy came over, and then, I met him. And here it sits. 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 sometimes, you know, you can, like, cup your hands and drink water from them or you could cup your hands and I dont know. As they talked, And Im coming for you like a hawk for the dove. Shires wrote the song a few years ago and originally imagined it as a conversation between several women, but revamped it to feature her collaborator and husband. Her new album is Take It Like a Man. But one time, you know, not everybody could make a show. I had no problem taking direction, but and I had no problem helping when I needed to help, so. Fellow singer/songwriter Aimee Mann tweeted well wishes to Isbell: Im so sorry. Then I get to the end of the recording process and try to decide what makes the best collection of songs. I know what the cost is in the octaves of consequence. And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. So when I would write the songs, I dont know whats going to come out, but sometimes, it was so I was just so down that the only way I could get better was to take it out on writing a song. People are still going to get abortions, and were going to have to keep peoples secrets, and house people, and try to do the best we can. 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. And then I thought about Waylon [Jennings] and Kris [Kristofferson] and them of The Highwaymen, and I was like, They were kind of speaking about ageism. I said, Itd be cool if I had a band, The Highwomen. 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 we met. Its an often-times divisive topic, and I dont want to bring any hurt to my family by doing something like putting out a song about this topic, but I lost all that fear when I got angry. Do you need the reasons why? Shes also one of the founders of the group the Highwomen. hide caption. Where are our Nashville folks? In 2017, for her solo work, she was named emerging artist of the year at the Americana Music & Honors Awards ceremony. Isbells grandfather and uncle were both musicians, says Tompkins on the phone from Nashville. And because of that, I felt like we should make it something thats as safe as it can possibly be. It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment, strange as the blue up above. A person having a miscarriage may have to fly to another state, just so they or their doctor doesnt get into legal trouble. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And any policing will disproportionately affect people of color, low-income folks and other marginalized groups. And he said, try playing this one. "Maybe it was circumstance, but I saw my chance and I took it," she boasts, her tone fuzzed-out by distortion. When we left off, we were talking about when Shires was 15 and started playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys, which used to be Bob Wills band. 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. Thank you for doing the interview. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. Im glad to be a listener and also glad to see folks from those generations supporting the right to choose. Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem.. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. On top of that, Shires notes, the pro-life stance doesnt typically extend past birth. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. GROSS: Lets take another break here. So I started just taking notes on the radio because I heard it. Jason Isbell Releases Death Wish' From New Album Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. And Zachs going to play guitar. Fully renovated in 1994, the Ryman has never been more vibrant, attracting entertainers and fans from around the globe to enjoy its now legendary acoustics and rich history.Connect with the Ryman Auditorium:Like the Ryman Auditorium on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/rymanfbCheck out the Ryman Auditorium on INSTAGRAM: ttp://bit.ly/RymanInstagram Follow the Ryman Auditorium on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/tweettherymanBEHIND THE SCENES with Amanda Shires | Backstage at the Ryman | Ryman Auditoriumhttp://www.youtube.com/user/RymanAuditorium#AmandaShires, #Ryman, #TheHighwomen, #RymanAuditorium, #BackstageattheRyman 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. I dont care if somebody wants to put a target on me. 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. Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. And Tommy said, if you can hold down that lower third harmony and Id love to, you know, have that spot filled. And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. But they also understood that I was a kid. If you share your story or share your beliefs, youre going to get some haters and trolls. Her new album of original songs is called Take It Like A Man. She also co-founded the country supergroup the Highwomen, which includes Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. But and after you did the main melody part, you get to improvise. requiring proof of vaccination or proof of a recent negative COVID test, even facing backlash from his fellow artists, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. It felt like maybe wed both leave at the same time. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time GROSS: Lawrence Rothman produced your new album. 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 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. Ive found and scrounged and continued to for every interview that hes done in any form and any language. Im not joking. Why werent you accepting it? You can say its all my fault. Its a great song, so I thought wed play some of it. SHIRES: Well, that was that parts a secret, Terry. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. But, yeah, after a while thinking about it, I got more comfortable with it. I also received responses from trolls. I know the cost of flight is landing. I know I can take it like a man. And after we recorded it, he said, Thats a really good song. And I said, Thats all you have to say. That one speaks to me. I want to talk with you about The Highwomen. Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires to Serve as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? Were you just, like, the cute kid who could play but, you know that audiences would go wild over because you were a girl in the band and there wasnt much of that? Victoria is scheduled to open for Isbell on this tour. 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