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So since they are personal songs, you had to decide to say that. 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. But I am living still. He has since learned to tell the story of his recovery. "I'm daring to do what she couldn't bring herself to do," Shires ruminates, shadowed by her own feathery harmonies. It was Fault Lines.. And so I got to do that basically because I was willing to work in a group and play a part and do just that thing and show up on time. In 2017, for her solo work, she was named emerging artist of the year at the Americana Music & Honors Awards ceremony. Amanda Shires' To the Sunset comes out Aug. 3. Shires would go on to make a name for herself, both as a solo artist and as the founder of the country supergroup The Highwomen, which includes Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. Amanda Shires appeared on The Late Late Show to perform her recent song Take It Like a Man. Playing with her band, the singer offered an emotive take on the Shires new album, Take it Like a Man, includes several songs she wrote during a rough period in her marriage to musician Jason Isbell. I could tell my milk cow I could tell by the way she lows. And I was like, thats what I want to do, because you play this song. I hope you get well soon. Isbell responded, Thank you Aimee. Then I get to the end of the recording process and try to decide what makes the best collection of songs. She gets pregnant and wants to have an abortion, although she doesnt feel great about it. People dont have to come to a concert, Isbell said. GROSS: Lawrence Rothman produced your new album. And then my orchestra teacher recommended me to a private violin teacher. He could still leave it dish in the sink, you know? 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She was going to school. And so you know Ill say, I dont know, but no ones going to be asking me. So to give listeners a sense of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, listeners who dont know who they are, this is a classic 1940 recording of New San Antonio Rose., (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, NEW SAN ANTONIO ROSE), BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: (Singing) Deep within my heart lies a melody, a song of old San Antone (ph) San Antone where in dreams I live with a memory beneath the stars, all alone. The sound of silence rings in every room. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Say whatever feels better or whatever. Ive found and scrounged and continued to for every interview that hes done in any form and any language. As they talked, Isbell was struck with a realization. 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. Dont support artists who dont support your rights. (Singing) Time was all Id want. Isbells grandfather and uncle were both musicians, says Tompkins on the phone from Nashville. But and after you did the main melody part, you get to improvise. Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat, shook and quivering. Shires, who was touring with the Texas Playboys when she was still a teenager, has a sense of responsibility thats been good for him, he says. Maintaining that vigilance and devoting necessary energy and attention to confronting and correcting not only sexual wrongdoing but warped thinking can be all-consuming. Then her character takes control of the exchange in a teasing tone. Why did you want to form this group? GROSS: So this track features you, Natalie Hemby and Yola as a guest artist on it. Thank you for doing the interview. Maybe I was asking for a little too much. It felt like maybe wed both leave at the same time. So I started just taking notes on the radio because in 22 songs, [I heard] one womans voice and it was a Carrie Underwood song from six years before that or something. Like, do you say, hey, honey, heres a song I wrote about how bad things are between us right now? I remember thinking, Wow, theres a lot of potential for me to really mess this up.'. So lets hear a song about when things werent so all right. 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. 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. And there was a guy that also played the guitar, like a multi-instrumentalist side person. In the decade-plus that Shires has been making solo albums in addition to working as a side person with Billy Joe Shaver, Justin Townes Earle and, eventually, her husband and fellow singer-songwriter Jason Isbell she's expressed self-consciousness about the shivers and tremors in her singing voice, tried to smooth them out of her delivery and ultimately embraced its untameness. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. And because of that, I felt like we should make it something thats as safe as it can possibly be. I was gifted as a girl. Im your Amanda. In 2020, The Highwomen won album of the year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. 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. GROSS: That sounds really, really awful. It makes it feel like youre tough enough for the fight, all the way down to your bones. And Lanny Fiel, he would say, youre really, really great at the parts you love. Curled up on the floor with it all. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. 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. When it reopened, he was in the first 200. Which brings up the question, why were Jason and I, and Margo Price, the biggest celebrities quasi-celebrities at the march in Nashville? It could be something you played. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. While Shires might not have set out to make an album that reminds us of the power of women pursuing their own impulses, desires and ambitions with abandon, that perspective enlivens this bracing 10-song set. 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. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. In an interview on MSNBC Monday, Isbell stated the response he has received from people who work at the venues and in the music business has been positive because they understand we could go back to not working at all, adding that smaller venues might not be able to reopen if they go through another round of shutdowns. I like to play pool, he says. And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. And my hands are two empty cups. But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? There were probably 2,500 people, and Im just standing there with a guitar, elevated and facing everyone. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. Well close with the opening track from Amanda Shires new album. For my children, I did what I had to do. Look at Texas' Primary. So its probably important to stay alive before you start questioning your liberty.. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. I never wouldve thought that before, but now I know its true. I mean, is it fatal for a woman if nothing is done? The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time SHIRES: Oh, yes, Mercy is my daughter. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. The subject isnt talked about enough, Shires says. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. GROSS: Thats Empty Cups from Amanda Shires new album, Take It Like A Man. Thats such a great song, Amanda. Do you have you do a great version of Im Your Man, his song, Im Your Man, on YouTube. Tax ID: 26-2810489, Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. 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. 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). Demographer Diana Greene Foster conducted a 10-year study tracking both people who had abortions and people who were denied abortions. And I was really into that.. But I did move a couple of times out of the house, not because it was a leaving thing, but because I didnt want to do anything that would harm, you know, make it worse. And I was really into that. 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 rings out like its supposed to. And she was like, I had no idea. So when you started taking lessons with Frankie McWhorter and then became part of the band, how much did you know about Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys? hide caption. Did you actually meet him? Michael Schmelling. And I was like, my granddad was in Alcatraz? Wherever you get that support whether in a relationship or friends no matter what you believe, you can believe to support somebody through something hard.. Former Drive-By Trucker is enjoying a breakout moment with new album 'Southeastern'. I hope youll join us. On top of that, Shires notes, the pro-life stance doesnt typically extend past birth. 2023 WNET. Well be right back. And I said, Id love to. Its as opposed to being in the uterus, where it belongs. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start Im not joking. Just admit Im what you want. When Roe is overturned, some healthcare workers may feel afraid to help people. Im not a big AA guy, but Ill go every once in a while. 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." 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. 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. You slammed the door so hard I still hear rattling spoons. 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 Well, why dont you sing some of it for us? fiddle-playing damn Texan. Theres still just as much awe.. Refunds at point of purchase but were working on rescheduling. Oh, I could have crowed. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. SHIRES: No, not until a couple of years ago. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. And my stuff worked. Fellow singer/songwriter Aimee Mann tweeted well wishes to Isbell: Im so sorry. On your Twitter, you describe yourself as a disciple of Leonard Cohen. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. 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 Im coming for you like a hawk for the dove. They arent helping. SHIRES: Thats all you have to say? 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. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. And if you want a doctor, Ill examine every inch of you. I cried, I asked and I balled. And Empty Cups wasnt even the hardest one for me to put on there. Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. During the #MeToo moment, much emphasis has been rightly placed on the need for women to guard themselves against the unrestrained appetites of male perpetrators. The spurs of hip bones Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. All Rights reserved. I got up to sing, and I was like, oh, crap. And the other parts, youre just kind of asleep. SHIRES: (Singing) Im well aware of what the nights made of. And her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. Well be right back after a short break. I didnt want to do more damage. No way. A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love. AMANDA SHIRES AND JASON ISBELL: (Singing) Everythings going to be OK. Its going to be all right. Its a great song, so I thought wed play some of it. However, Rapinos memo notes that Live Nation and artists can only make vaccines a requirement where permitted by law. Artists performing at government-operated venues in states where lawmakers have prohibited vaccine mandates will be prohibited from enforcing such measures. This happened to me two and a half weeks before Texas abortion ban went into effect. The election is November 8. I know the cost of flight is landing. 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. And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. Theres a lot of things you do with your hands, but it struck me the most is matching the feeling of desperation or even begging. SHIRES: About singing, yes. GROSS: You know, youve said that a lot of the songs on this album come from a troubled period of your marriage to songwriter and singer Jason Isbell, who you perform with and who plays on this album. 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. Amy Salit and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Im going to play fiddle and Im going to sing in. Soon after a Supreme Court draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. So theres thinking my thinking is that my granddad married my grandmother knowing that she was pregnant with somebody elses child. Thank you for your songs. 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. But they also understood that I was a kid. 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. Hearing these stories, I think that it makes your backbone stronger. BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) I was a Highwoman and a mother from my youth. If you want a partner, take my hand or only you want to strike me down in anger, here I stand. And one day, we wound up in the studio, and we cut the song. So lets hear a little bit of that song. She has a big conscience, a big heart. The players in the band, they took me seriously as a player, but they also understood that I was a kid.. Oh, I could have crowed. SHIRES: In 2016, I was going on the road. Amanda Shires has become a coveted presence at the intersection of nervy artistry and activism, folk and country acclaim, rock attitude and Nashville influence. Is there a song that youd like to do? "Maybe it was circumstance, but I saw my chance and I took it," she boasts, her tone fuzzed-out by distortion. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer, musician Amanda Shires. Its you, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. With vacations lagging and the dangerous delta variant spreading, the United States is averaging more than 100,000 new cases a day for the first time since early February. You had an abortion. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? She was in her home recording studio with her fiddle and with guitarist Zach Setchfield, and they played a few songs. 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. Im glad to hear it. And in this certain period of time, there was a lot. 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 Natalie said, I want the one about preaching. The timing of The Problem and the fact that its benefiting the Yellowhammer Fund are both important, as draconian, punitive abortion laws have been enacted in Alabama and neighboring states in the last year. (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, SWIMMER), GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Shed been learning to play classical music on "I did a parking lot pirouette / I said, 'You're right I'm not done with you yet.'" 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