So it was just like a week and a half or two weeks afterwards that Texas banned abortion. But through the process of making the record and, you know, 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 were found common ground on something again, which has always been music and words. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires say they've turned in their memberships with the Country Music Association, due to the organization's "failure" to acknowledge the And hes saying, you know, basically that hes going to support her and hes there for her. So I think she did a good job. Where are our Nashville folks? When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. I just fell in love with the music, is what happened. Too caught up in the way I want you rolling over me. I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. I want Garth Brooks out there telling people that womens health is a priority. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? 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 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 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. Can you play something that you think kind of epitomizes the style that you learned and fell in love with? SHIRES: Theres a medication that you cant take right now after, you know, about two weeks after this happened to me. 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. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. And I was reading mine. And so I just had to get emergency surgery to remove the tube and clean the blood from inside of my body. Well definitely get to your verse, which is the second one. Live Nation also announced a vaccination requirement for employees entering events, venues or offices, which will take effect October 4. Our business and our industry is about uniting people, and vaccines are one of the greatest tools for making sure that everyone can continue to enjoy live music together, CEO Michael Rapino wrote to the companys employees. SHIRES: My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen. When we overturn Roe, we risk going back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen. Lets start with a track from the new album. And for a lot of folks, that can be the most boring part of the three-part string ensemble thing. See where your favorite artists and songs rank on the Rolling Stone Charts. GROSS: You forced yourself in the position of having him hear you play? It was love at first listen. Since publishing my op-ed, Ive heard from some folks who are in their eighties. Snubbing the King: Why Don't Big Stars Want to Perform at Charles' Coronation? And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. Im glad to be a listener and also glad to see folks from those generations supporting the right to choose. And I dont know how I feel about that. "Maybe it was circumstance, but I saw my chance and I took it," she boasts, her tone fuzzed-out by distortion. And I really liked it. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. You had an abortion. SHIRES: I forced myself in that position. SHIRES: Well, myself and Brandi wrote the song. Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, well talk about the power, promise and potential harm of YouTube. You have your fiddle with you. All Rights reserved. And I said, Id love to. And I hadnt heard the fiddle being played at all. And then my orchestra teacher recommended me to a private violin teacher. Girls high school basketball team forfeits a game because it refused to play against a team with a transgender player, Fox Leaders Wanted to Break From Trump but Struggled to Make It Happen, Not Going to Read That: White House Press Secretary Brushes Off DeSantis Op-Ed, Sunshine returns to SoCal on Thursday but cold temps stick around, AccuWeather: AM showers before a mild afternoon, Opening arguments heard in court for 2020 Conway fatal shooting that killed a 19-year-old. ISBELL: (Singing) And all I could think to say was. Thats, like, part of your identity on Twitter. 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. So what didnt you like about your voice? 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.. Amanda Shires is a singing, songwriting. 2023 WNET. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. You can say its all my fault. SHIRES: I mean OK Im going to call her up after this, too. I remember thinking, Wow, theres a lot of potential for me to really mess this up.'. Do you have you do a great version of Im Your Man, his song, Im Your Man, on YouTube. When do you show him the songs? Some of the reason [The Problem] is only coming out now is fear on my part, and Ill admit that. So lets hear a little bit of that song. Im your man. Other than that, I think were all right. They arent helping. And because of that, I felt like we should make it something thats as safe as it can possibly be. Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. And but I think for the players in the band, they took me seriously as a player. It took me a minute to really learn how to improvise, Shires says of those early years. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. On August 9, 2021 And Zachs going to play guitar. 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. And I think theres more valuable strength there than there is in suppressing your emotions and poisoning yourself with your own feelings, I guess. 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. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. ", 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 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. GROSS: Oh, thats so funny. 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. But I am living still. And healer seemed fitting for me not only because it happened that way, but my moms a nurse. Amanda Shires is in Serious Trouble in Hawk for the Dove Fallon Performance Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. 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. 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.. Shires plays fiddle in the band. And she was like, I had no idea. And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. And I was still dealing with all of it two and a half weeks later. You may opt-out by, U.S. Learn more about his tour. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. 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. And it was a Carrie Underwood song from it was, like, six years before that or something. 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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. SHIRES: But I like it because I like to imagine like, if he was alive and I got to play this for him, I would be singing Im your Amanda. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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. 1,286 talking about this. Recognition has been building steadily; he won Song of the Year at the 2012 Americana Honors and Awards at the Ryman Auditorium last September for Alabama Pines. He calls his superb backing band the 400 Unit, after the psychiatric ward of a hospital near Muscle Shoals, the part of the state where he grew up. I hope you get well soon. Isbell responded, Thank you Aimee. And, you know, I didnt know that this was a thing you should normally ask to do cause I was young. / And the fear that I feel when I see my features reversed in my own daughter's face." Maintaining that vigilance and devoting necessary energy and attention to confronting and correcting not only sexual wrongdoing but warped thinking can be all-consuming. We just couldnt get along. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. And Frankie and Lanny, my teachers we were at Lannys house the first time Tommy came over, and then, I met him. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? 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. SHIRES: I feel like its a little nasally, and I wish it was, like, a little bit lower. 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) Official Video ft. Jason Isbell Watch on Tour Dates Track to get concert, live stream and tour updates. 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.. Its a lot like writing a song about it. And so you know Ill say, I dont know, but no ones going to be asking me. So lets hear a song about when things werent so all right. And any policing will disproportionately affect people of color, low-income folks and other marginalized groups. SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. And he said, try playing this one. And as it happened, eventually the auxiliary cable quit working in the van. Shires, an incisive songwriter and solo artist and occasional member of husband Jason Isbells 400 Unit band, has been vocal about protecting a womans right to choose in the past. Our guest will be Mark Bergen, author of the new book Like, Comment, Subscribe in which he reports on how YouTube ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity of influencers and online hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars. SHIRES: I really do feel like he did a lot of work for me that I dont have to do. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. Which would I rather have? I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. And (laughter) I, like, played the part. Its yet another thing that, when policing does happen, is going to happen haphazardly and ruin lives. Back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen it cant expand enough to a! 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