The sauce, the fresh ingredients, the pizza ovens, Antico is great. Amanda Shires is an American singer, songwriter, and fiddle player who has performed both as a solo artist and as a part of several music groups. She was ready to simply play in bands and paint, and be done with her own music. The strawberry one was new to me. In 2016 I was going on the road. We also pack a cooler for the van with yogurt, string cheese, snap peas, etc. When youre traveling, what food from home do you crave? Amanda Shiress individualistic streak has made her something of an outlaw in country music. Grammy and Americana Music Awards winner Amanda Shires began touring with the Texas Playboys when she was 15. She makes no bones about who she is, what she wants, and what shes going to do to get it. Actor Kimberly McCullough is 45. When Amanda Shires was 15 years old, she was playing fiddle and touring with the otherwise aged membership of the Western Swing outfit the Texas Playboys. But she wouldnt have it any other way. Bad Behavior builds on the same sinful-lustful dynamic that many of her sexier songs employ, but the jarring trap-rap mutterings in the middle distract from the steamily mischievous tone of her voice as she teases a sorry-not-sorry one night stand: Maybe I like strangers / So what if I do? Fault Lines is similarly direct, but far more surprising. Upcoming Dates Past Dates Sat, MAR 11 C2C Country to Country - Bluebird Caf Session London, United Kingdom RSVP Tickets Sun, MAR 12 C2C Country to Country - BBC Radio 2 Stage "I was like, 'That's what I want to do,' because you play this song and then you get to improvise you just play what you feel within the chord. I got really fired up and decided something had to be done in my little small patch of earth, said Shires, one of the few Nashville songwriters willing to make such undiluted statements about politically polarizing topics. Singer-songwriter couple Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires announced they have returned their lifetime-membership cards to the Country Music Association after November 11's ceremony failed to. Shires is no stranger to emotionally devastating songs. Actor Jill Ritchie is 49. A quarter-century later, Shires is a well-established solo artist, half of a Nashville power couple (alongside her husband, Jason Isbell) and a member of the Highwomen, the country music supergroup that includes Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. The result was Fault Lines, which Nashville Scene calls an achingly raw assessment of where their relationship was and where it could be heading.. Perhaps the most devastating song, though, is Fault Lines, one of the first she wrote for the album, during a period when she and Isbell were navigating what she called a disconnect., When Isbell heard a demo of Fault Lines, he said, the first thing I noticed was that its a very good song. AS: Its easier than its ever been to be pescatarian or vegetarian on the road. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. To be successful as a woman working in an industry, were taught youre not supposed to get emotional, Shires said. From left: Shires, Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby of the Highwomen, the supergroup Shires wanted to start after growing frustrated with the lack of women played on country radio. And we met. Can you just stop with these little wars?/Can you just hold on and hope a little longer?, Shires asks on the gorgeous, soulful ballad Lonely at Night, written with her friend Peter Levin. Rothman, who was born in St. Louis and lives in Los Angeles, identifies as gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. You can say I lost my grip. Empty Cups is pure Dolly Parton, and makes up for its predictable melody with well-turned couplets worthy of a soap opera: Youre leaving now through the hole of an argument / I guess for a while youve been looking for the exit, she sings. Its easy to be impressed by this since a lot us have to go through a kind of trial and error phase that sees us take up some things and then finally find the one thing that were really good at. The band's last St. Louis show was in 2017 at the Dome at America's Center. Singer-songwriter and violinist Amanda Shires' day in Chicago turned into a living nightmare when she discovered her van had been broken into. It's something you can't change about yourself.. Her reasoning? All Im trying to do is tell the truth that its hard, and that people go through disconnects and that sometimes the idea of finding your way back seems like, Why? Alongside her demands for greater racial and gender inclusivity in the genre, she has also been frank on the matter of abortion, not least with The Problem, a 2020 duet on the subject with musician husband Jason Isbell (since re-recorded as Our Problem with a notable cast of guests: Cyndi Lauper, Angie Stone, Linda Perry, Peaches). She reads the magazine regularly to educate herself on these things. Jason picked it out. As was the case for many artists, Amanda Shires found herself at a personal and professional crossroads more than two years ago when theaters and other performance venues were shuttered around the world to curb the spread of COVID-19. Paste: "This part of my life and our marriage was difficult and it took me back to the reason I came to writing and doing music in the first place, which is expression," she says. There are enough people that have decided to follow her career to make it known that she does have a worthwhile career, though it wouldnt seem to matter much since like a lot of folks it would seem that she uses social media as just another tool to spread the tale of her life. Amy Salit and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Why not? Actor Kimberly McCullough ("General Hospital") is 45. An exploration of a difficult time in her marriage, it is starkly honest and strikingly simple, capturing her psychological thunderstorms during a moment of doubt: You could say its all my fault / We just couldnt get along / And if anyone asks Ill say whats true / And really its: I dont know. She hints at a resolution on Stupid Love: You were smiling so much you kissed me with your teeth / I thought: long live the unknown machine., If theres a takeaway to be had, its this sense of embracing lifes unknown machine. Both musicians have written about challenging moments in their marriage. Turned everything blurry/I cant see a thing from here. Shires husband, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, plays guitar on the recording. That individualistic streak makes Shires seem like a modern-day country outlaw, applying the rugged and righteously combative spirit of elders like Shaver and Prine to the version of Nashville she finds herself inhabiting and challenging to change. Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Anyone can read what you share. Eric Ryan Anderson for The New York Times. And that resulted in the rupture of my fallopian tube. Where are our Nashville folks? Shires wrote. How does Shires find the mettle to put such raw emotions into words, let alone on public display? It can make me feel sluggish, and it makes singing tough. To see more, visit Fresh Air. Rothman recalled the incredible scene that unfolded when Shires wrote the new albums title track in a kind of creative trance in early January 2021. I was just messing around on the piano, Rothman said, and shes like, Wait, what is that? Shires leaped out of her chair one side of her hair chopped shorter than the other and told Rothman, Dont stop playing! For the next hour, she sat on the floor in deep concentration, scribbling lines and flipping through notebooks and the index cards onto which she transcribes her best ideas. Shires is coy about whether the design on her arm depicts the hawk, as in, the pursuer, or the dove. I got the idea in England, and it just stuck with me. During Bad Behavior, she relished both toying with and shrugging off the possibility of a casual hookup. Im pescatarian now, so I use vegetable broth (either homemade or from the store), onion, white wine, butter, and good Parmesan cheese. For me, what we do with our own bodies is not doing anything to another citizen. 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. In 2020, she and Isbell released a single titled The Problem in which a young couple wrestles with the idea of terminating an unexpected pregnancy. Actor Karolina Wydra is 42. Theres a lot of dancing now in the studio, Shires said. But then came inspiration and encouragement from an unlooked-for source. You might be my ruining, she sings on Stupid Love. AS: One of the great things about traveling is getting to try new foods and restaurants. Touring with John Prine, she forgot a few lines of his playfully grouchy duet In Spite of Ourselves, and promptly went out and got an image of the Easter bunny, referenced in the song, tattooed on her arm. Fresh Air interviews, though, are in a category by themselves, distinguished by the unique approach of host and executive producer Terry Gross. 'To The Sunset' sounds like a toast: This day is over, we don't know what's in the future, but it's hopeful, I think.". Combine an intelligent interviewer with a roster of guests that, according to the Chicago Tribune, would be prized by any talk-show host, and you're bound to get an interesting conversation. Actor Karolina Wydra ("Wicked City," "House") is 42. Take It Like a Man is the seventh solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Amanda Shires. I think I ate 56. She described it to Nashville Scene: It was a big blur of not being able to get through. Is it hard to be pescatarian on the road? Because Shires and Isbell play in each others bands and back each other on tour when possible, theyre often publicly singing some pretty personal things directly to each other, night after night. 15-year-old girl shot, killed during robbery in St. Charles McClellan: Too many have lost faith for Kim Gardner to continue "I was in a cycle of finding myself in situations with artists and. 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Shes been known to be an overachiever in the kitchen, too. Shes a searcher, and thats probably the thing that she values most in herself and other people, Isbell said. "Hawk For The Dove" is from Amanda Shires' new album 'Take It Like A Man' which is available now on limited edition vinyl, CD, and digital formats: https://a. The new track from Shires is the heartbreaking tale of someone craving their partners affection as they reflect on their troubled relationship, wondering what could have wrong in the meantime. Freda Love Smith is a drummer and writer whose food memoir, Red Velvet Underground, is forthcoming on Agate. Then we played the song the next day, she recalled, and I took my bandage off, and right when he said, Get it on like the Easter bunny, he forgot all the words. When Shaver died, she got ink to commemorate her tenure with him, and there were tattoos all around when she convened the Highwomen, whose lineup also boasts Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. Ill pick at some tortilla chips and hummus, or eat a few blackberries. Be strong, show your strength, be stoic. The song had sprung from her realization that true strength actually comes from being vulnerable, saying your feelings, and also having the courage to just be which Shires certainly has in spades. Its rousing stuff, and with indie-pop producer Lawrence Rothman on hand, her vivid, intentionally raw fiddle-playing is balanced well with expressions of her softer side, seemingly taking inspiration from peers who are blazing trails beyond countrys traditional bounds. Theres a lot of dancing now in the studio, Shires said of how working with Lawrence Rothman shifted her perspective. Amanda and Jason hold high standards for each other Erika Goldring/Getty Images The next time Jason Isbell told Amanda Shires he wanted to quit, she began talking with his manager about facilitating a trip to rehab. Amanda Shires February 1, 2023 While Maren Morris Is Apologizing for Things, Here's a Few More Trigger In a recent behind-the-scenes clip as part of this season of RuPaul's Drag Race, Maren Morris felt then needed to apologize to the drag queens competing on this season's show on behalf of country music. Amanda hasnt gone without being awarded in her career as shes managed to gain several accolades and proof that shes impressed the right people that can help to further her career. Reproductive health (care) and womens health care is beyond just abortion. Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic on Health News Florida. And as it happened, eventually the auxiliary cable quit working in the van so I was left to the radio choices of sports ball and Top 40 country music. She also released The Problem, a ballad about a teenage couple reckoning with terminating an unplanned pregnancy, casting Isbell in the role of the supportive partner, then rounded up a wide-ranging crowd of like-minded women Peaches, Nona Hendryx, Cyndi Lauper and Morgane Stapleton among them for the Our Problem redo. The experience prompted her to write a piece for Rolling Stone decrying the Texas abortion ban that could have affected her treatment had it been passed just a few weeks earlier. ), Shires hasnt always felt like herself in the recording studio, though. Or anything you definitely do not like to eat before you play? Because were a married couple in love, I didnt want folks to think that if theyre in a marriage and it doesnt look like that, that somethings wrong with theirs, she said. AS:About six years ago, on a tour of Ireland, I ate my weight in Irish bread, soups, pies, Irish coffee, cheese plates for dessert, yikes. Sie knnen Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ndern. Her new album is Take It Like a Man. The near-plane crash over Newfoundland, her BFF Kelly's fears about our apocalyptic times, another friend's heavy breakup. Eli Lilly cuts some older insulin prices and caps out-of-pocket costs. Oh, no. Shires has recorded and toured with Shovels and Rope, Justin Townes Earle, and she often collaborates with her husband, Jason Isbell. (Theres a wonderful video online of her calling a station manager to ask why hes not playing more women. But her first experience in a big-budget Music Row studio was profoundly demoralizing. Obviously Amanda had a clear idea of what to do with her degree. AS: I dont like to eat a full meal right before I play. And the character you wrote yourslf out to be, In mid-2020, Shires was undergoing some turmoil in her relationship with her husband, fellow, It was a big blur of not being able to get through. Actor Karolina Wydra is 42. That was fun. Model Niki Taylor is 48. Though shed sung about chasing down longing before, she got far more explicit about desire, flaunting her forwardness over the undulating groove of The Hawk for the Dove, and attacking her fiddle solo like a wild-eyed, eruptive fantasy. You can say it's all my fault. Folks that have this kind of anxiety cant really be told the old chestnut that there are more car wrecks than plane crashes on an average basis since all they might seem to hear is the plane crash part of that sentence. She was, as she put it, slightly pedigreed as a performer and keen to prioritize her singing and songwriting ahead of side musician work by the time she moved to Nashville in 2004. I just needed more tools in the toolbox, Shires said. She really went around town and schooled everybody, which was kind of amazing. Before the action starts on the field, a City Block Party will heat up CityPark with performances by Metro Boomin, Anderson .Paak, Mvstermind . Actor Paul Blackthorne is 54. And then in my mind I thought, Well, if he couldn't hear the frequency of my voice before, maybe he could hear it through music, you know? When she contemplated shelving Fault Lines, anticipating that she was going to have to talk about it or people will likely read into it, he reassured her that it was too good and rang too true to leave off the album. Not everybody treated her with respect, he added, and a lot of people made her feel small., Even after the release of her excellent 2018 record To the Sunset, the thought of recording another solo album triggered such anxiety that Shires was sure shed never make one again. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. A lot of folks dont happen to like being in the air for one reason or another and while she does manage to get on a plane now and again she still holds that she doesnt enjoy the trip since you can imagine shes just waiting for it to be over. Actor Kimberly McCullough is 45. Whats your funniest on-the-road food story? I learned over the years to try and eat as cleanly as possible . In the end, she concluded, We should get to be sexual beings.. While you might not have heard of her it might be time to look her up and take a listen, since her music is something thats rather powerful and carries a lot of meaning, something that speaks to the passion that she brings to her craft. Dont get me wrong, I love New York and New Jersey pizza, but I find myself in Atlanta more often these days and Antico serves real pizza too. Amanda Rose Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. Suddenly she popped up and told Rothman to start recording a voice memo, sang the entirety of what would become Take It Like a Man, and sat back down to finish getting her hair cut. I was in a cycle of finding myself in situations with artists and engineers and producers that werent right for me, that wound up giving me various little injuries and traumas, Shires says. When Shires was in the hospital giving birth to their daughter, Mercy, in 2015, she had to disclose to her doctor, with her husband and mother in the room, that shed had an abortion. Im on tour right now, but Im looking forward to getting home and playing with it. Shires' sonic diversity is remarkable, her fiddle playing is impeccable, and she . Acknowledging your past, and at sunset, your hope for a new day. The song came out just after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the push to overturn Roe v. Wade went into overdrive. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. Amanda Shires is a rampant overachiever, never content to do the minimum. At times overzealous but always sincere, Shires subverts the idea of taking it like a man as one of rote strength or stoicism. At the end of the day, its only fair that a woman should make the choice with her doctor, and all these other questions and comments dont even need to be injected into the conversation, she adds. Rock musician John Frusciante is 53. Being a music fan might make it possible for you to have heard of Amanda Shires since shes quite the talented individual and has proven this more than once throughout her career. Musician Amanda Shires (The Highwomen, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) is 41. In 2020, The Highwomen won Album of the Year at the Americana Music Honors and Awards ceremony. Her solo studio albums include Being Brave (2005), West Cross Timbers (2009), Carrying Lightning (2011), Down Fell the Doves (2013), My Piece of Land (2016), and To the Sunset (2018). Crowned emerging artist of the year at the 2017 Americana Awards on the strength of her incisive solo efforts, shes contributed to her renowned husband Jason Isbells success as a member of his band, the 400 Unit, and managed to assemble a supergroup, the Highwomen, to confront prejudiced country radio programming with womanly solidarity. 4 min read In 2020, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires penned an essay for Rolling Stone in which she revealed that she had an abortion a "10-minute" procedure that came. A staple in Nashvilles country music scene since moving from her native Texas in 2004, she broke through with 2016s intimately observational My Piece of Land, reflecting on her pregnancy and the bittersweet realities of stay-at-home parenting. To The Sunset, says Shires, "is meant to be a positive thing. In the writing and recording of it, she owned the devastating disappointments and unsatisfied but undiminished desires of a grown woman navigating complex public and private lives. Amanda enjoys being who she is and doesnt shy away from being the kind of person who does things her way and doesnt make an apologies for it. 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. Completing her seventh, Take It Like a Man, proved monumental. We highlight the stories of Black Floridians seeking emotional healing and wellness. And what does it say about me if I keep putting myself in situations that are harmful to me?. She refuses to ignore things that she thinks are wrong, Isbell said of Shires, and that is a hard way to go about your day.. I usually feel alright about it. Paste: Shed come to experience the studio as like being under 2,000 magnifying glasses where youre hearing everything youve ever done wrong really loud.. You have permission to edit this article. Say whatever feels better or whatever. We should record it. And I was like, No, I dont want to record it, I just wanted someone to hear it., Despite the danger of reopening wounds that were still healing, Shires did agree to record that song (presumably Fault Lines) and others that were of a similarly melancholy nature, such as Empty Cups, Dont Be Alarmed and Lonely at Night.. One was chocolate and one was strawberry. She refuses to ignore things that she thinks are wrong, and that is a hard way to go about your day., Shiress idea to form the Highwomen was a direct result of realizing, while listening to countless hours of country radio on tour, how few female artists got airplay. I just wanted somebody to hear it. It would seem that shes been drawn to this life since she was very young since not only is she that good, but shes been working on what she wants for a long time and seemed to know her path before she was old enough to really walk it. It's just that she's been working alongside country music legends since she was 15, so most of the characters who populate her anecdotes . Fact-checking the claims on case related to St. Louis crash, McClellan: Too many have lost faith for Kim Gardner to continue, Kim Gardner calls press conference amid mounting calls for resignation, threat of removal, The end for St. Louis top prosecutor? Shires is forthright about her experience-based opinion on the topic. Dont cry, dont have your feelings. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. But she believes that the degree, which she finished in 2017 after taking some time off to have Mercy, helped her become a more precise writer, better able to capture what is vague about emotions and the human experience with as much accuracy as possible, as she put it. I owe a great deal of coming out of that rabbit hole to them, Shires says. Actor Sterling Knight ("Sonny With A Chance") is 34. Give her a listen, you might be presently surprised. Other March shows include Elle King, Queensryche and Buddy Guy, with the opening of City Winery. Amanda Shires is not holding anything back with her latest collection of music. How Amanda Shires, part of a country supergroup and power couple, found her own voice By Jewly Height Oct. 11, 2022 6 AM PT Amanda Shires has become a coveted presence at the intersection. Actor Kevin Connolly is 49. She's won music awards, formed the country supergroup of female musicians, the Highwomen, performs with her husband's band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, all while releasing solo albums. \"Hawk For The Dove is from Amanda Shires new album Take It Like A Man which is available now on limited edition vinyl, CD, and digital formats: https://atorecords-ffm.com/as_tilam CREDITS Recorded live at the Historic Columbia Studio A in Nashville, TN. Klicken Sie auf Einstellungen verwalten um weitere Informationen zu erhalten und Ihre Einstellungen zu verwalten. 3. It made me like, Okay, if you want me to sing like myself, I can do that. Not because it was my song, but just because we were in a really hard spot. Can you describe something you cooked or baked recently? Last month, in the wake of the leak to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the singer spoke with Rolling Stone about the experience of having an ectopic pregnancy in 2021, just weeks before Texas abortion ban went into effect. 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