The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 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. 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. 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. I want to talk with you about The Highwomen. What does he have to lose? And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. GROSS: So you ended up, like, accompanying him. Since starting I So Lounging, Shires YouTube following has grown 300 percent. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. She makes the decision before it gets to the point where she makes a mistake, and I like that. Yeah without you asking. Weve had legal abortions for 50 years and now, suddenly, a long-held right will be illegal. Im a big, big fan. And I said, yeah, I feel like theres not a lot happening there emotionally for me. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. 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. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. Despite the many questions as to why she was undergoing the procedure which she described as having "cells removed" despite trolls labeling her a "baby killer" Shires wrote at the time, "The reasons that I chose to have an abortion are personal, and they are mine." It's a sentiment that Shires has echoed many times since. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer, musician Amanda Shires. Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem.. Its just like you would expect, but theres real, scientific proof for it now. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. SHIRES: (Singing) Im scared to even say the truth. That one speaks to me. 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. GROSS: You grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and Mineral Wells, Texas. The tracks release I could tell my milk cow I could tell by the way she lows. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. So heres my guest, Amanda Shires, and Jason Isbell singing her song, The Problem.. Tommy Duncan was the singer. But they also understood that I was a kid. SHIRES: The audience really never went wild over me because it took me a minute to really learn how to improvise. No more? The subject isnt talked about enough, Shires says. And then you also youve got guys thatll back you up. SHIRES: Oh, yes, Mercy is my daughter. Where would that leave my own daughter? GROSS: Well, thank you for doing that. SHIRES: My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. ", 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. If you want a driver, climb inside or only want to take me for a ride, you know you can. GROSS: So that was Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys from 1940, their song, New San Antonio Rose, with Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar. Like, I know that in all of the searching that he did still believe that there was something bigger out there. Amanda Shires, performing during the Americana Awards at Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 22, 2021 in Nashville. And Lanny Fiel, he would say, youre really, really great at the parts you love. Its as opposed to being in the uterus, where it belongs. He could still leave it dish in the sink, you know? Lets get back to my interview with singer, songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. 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. 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.. And Tommy said, if you can hold down that lower third harmony and Id love to, you know, have that spot filled. I didnt want to do more damage. And I got awarded a scholarship to be able to go to those. All the time, the want, the overwhelming volume of breathing. 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. SHIRES: I just I have never been a fan of the way my voice sounds. 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. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. GROSS: Oh, yeah. Every one of them except for me survived. These really arent personal. She has a big conscience, a big heart. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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 Thats what I want. Become a member of WLIW ($5 monthly or $60 annually) and get access to WLIW Passport as our thanks for your support. I said, itd be cool if I was The Highwomen or maybe had a band The Highwomen. But, yeah, after a while thinking about it, I got more comfortable with it. When it reopened, he was in the first 200. In 2016 there was 13% representation of women to men on country radio, and now it still sits pleasantly at 16% on a good week. I hope youll join us. They all feel good, he says of making records, and they all feel really bad when youre working, simultaneously.. And these guys are in their 70s and 80s, and it was very much like hanging out with lots of granddads. People dont have to come to a concert, Isbell said. This is FRESH AIR. Amanda Shires was named emerging artist of the year at the 2017 Americana Music and Honors Awards Ceremony. 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. Its not more threatening than the idea of taking away the services and the work that doctors and nurses do. After Isbell announced last week that he would require enhanced Covid countermeasures at his show in Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Marc Broussard took to Twitter to lash out at Isbell, calling him bourgeois and elitist. Broussard asserted, Some working-class fans cant afford the risks associated with either the vaccines or even getting a test, adding, Id rather quit music than become a pawn in the pressure campaign. He did not provide any evidence of the risks he claimed were associated with getting the jab or receiving a test. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. A woman threw a house party with 65 men she matched with on Tinder and Hinge and connected with the man she's been dating for a year. Why werent you accepting it? 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. GROSS: Lawrence Rothman produced your new album. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And this is after some kind of nebulous argument. But if you dont, youre going to be wondering, What didnt I do? I was like, Thats 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. And then it was never like, oh, they have to be on a record once I do record them. When she paints a picture of motherhood in the subdued jangle-pop number "Charms," she doesn't dwell on its oft-idealized and sentimentalized facets. GROSS: You know, your husband plays on this album, but the songs are about a bad period in your marriage. 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 And I really liked it. BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) I was a Highwoman and a mother from my youth. Is a chrysalis a butterfly? GROSS: Oh, thats so funny. 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. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. In Portland, he led the band (including his wife on fiddle) through charging, heartfelt songs that often sounded like the cavalry was coming. (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, SWIMMER), GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. When Roe is overturned, some healthcare workers may feel afraid to help people. But a lot of times when youre growing up and taught what how to be successful and how to be to survive in the world as a woman with a career and all this stuff and probably young many young kids are taught this. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Isbell said he had to cancel his Asheville shows scheduled for Jan. 11-12, but he and his team are working to reschedule shows in Louisville, Columbus, Wilkes-Barre and Wilmington. For my children, I did what I had to do. Tax ID: 26-2810489, Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. So I couldnt really get into it. (Singing) Time was all Id want. 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 next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. As they talked, Isbell was struck with a realization. And while I I know the voice that I have is what I have. GROSS: Without him asking? People will have to prove that they have been raped. Im glad to hear it. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. And how come you didnt know before? You have your fiddle with you. SHIRES: We were writing that, and Brandi was like, Im going to take the first one. Why did you want to form this group? SHIRES: No, not until a couple of years ago. And then I asked Chance, and Chance was like, no, those are real documents. Bergen is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. GROSS: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, HAWK FOR THE DOVE), GROSS: Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. When it came down to it, when I finally got it done and recorded, Amy Coney Barrett had gotten sworn in. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. But anyway, he just grabbed my hand and held it. JASON ISBELL: (Singing) What do you want to do? Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. SHIRES: Theres this song called Milk Cow Blues. Its blues, you know? I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew my time had come. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. I know I can take it like a man. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. Jason Isbell and his wife, Amanda Shires, were walking around last weekend in Newport, Rhode Island, where they played the Newport Folk Festival. 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. SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. Yet, Isbell noted, the problem is that many of the venue owners are getting so much pushback from some of the governors of certain states who want to kowtow to their political base.. Im so glad you wrote it. See where your favorite artists and songs rank on the Rolling Stone Charts. When we overturn Roe, we risk going back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen. Thats the trick.. How did you manage to do that? And hes saying, you know, basically that hes going to support her and hes there for her. 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.. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. On August 9, 2021 I never wouldve thought that before, but now I know its true. And it just worked when we did it. She sings of the excruciating awareness of both mirroring and superseding her own mother. And I save them all and I return to them often I own one of his guitars My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen I really do feel like he did a lot of work for me that I dont have to do. So since they are personal songs, you had to decide to say that. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. Upcoming Dates Past "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. Long before weathering the isolating COVID-19 pandemic, Shires had endured years of studio experiences where producers and musicians undermined her I mean, only just now nine months later, interestingly enough have I returned to having normal periods. Its no fun but well be alright.. We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico. I just fell in love with the music, is what happened. SHIRES: I didnt know anything about them. Thank you for your songs. But anyway so I went and I sat down in my barn of internal wandering. SHIRES: Thank you so much. How did you come up with the image of my hands are two empty cups? It goes, (singing) I woke up this morning, and I looked out my door. And Zachs going to play guitar. Oh, I could have crowed. To see more, visit. Sign up for Rolling Stones Newsletter. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And I was thinking about how much the stories matter. 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. Musician Adia Victoria also tweeted at Isbell and praised the artist for continuing to put the health and safety ofhis crew, my band, venue employees and fans first and foremost, to which he replied with three heart emojis. But they took me seriously, but they also knew the seriousness and the impact of the help that they were giving me. 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. 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 And why did you want to work it into a song? Isbells first show after finishing rehab was opening solo for Ryan Adams in Perth, Australia, three days after he got out (two, if you count the international dateline, the day that goes into the vortex). But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? I was playing a music festival, and I noticed that there was a fiddle on stage with Billy Joe. 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. You had an abortion. Im Terry Gross. SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. SHIRES: (Singing) I was a healer. She co-founded the country supergroup The Highwomen, which includes Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. It could be something you played. Theres nothing left to fix. GROSS: Were you nervous about being on stage or just about singing? And Frankie and Lanny, my teachers we were at Lannys house the first time Tommy came over, and then, I met him. Her new album is called Take It Like A Man.. Shires started playing fiddle professionally when she was 15 with the band the Texas Playboys, which used to be led by Bob Wills, the father of Western Swing. But I thought, what am I going to do about that in the event that she does go into country music? Im your Amanda. In "Leave It Alone," a song introduced by a brittle, programmed loop and a jangly, arpeggiated guitar figure, she elegantly describes exploring a new lover's body: "Hands find the places where they've never been, to know for themselves new surfaces / And mine, they've got a mind of their own / I can't leave it alone." Its pretty obvious.. 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. Amanda Shires is in Serious Trouble in Hawk for the Dove Fallon Performance A person having a miscarriage may have to fly to another state, just so they or their doctor doesnt get into legal trouble. Cancelling shows feels awful, I know. And you got your start professionally at age 15 playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys. I was learning orchestra and classical music in school and privately. On August 10, my life was savedthese are some dark days.. Maybe I was asking for a little too much. And any policing will disproportionately affect people of color, low-income folks and other marginalized groups. (In "Wasn't I Paying Attention," a tale of dramatically staged, small-town suicide, for example, the way she sings the word "attention" amplifies the narrator's unsettled state.) But finding a voice now and sharing their stories now is as good as any time. Michael Schmelling. Are they just going to sit around and drink beer? I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. And your verse, you are somebody who thinks of herself as a healer but was hung in the gallows during the Salem witch trials. And Id sit on his porch. Theyre just, you know, scans of them. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. credit: John Shearer. I just feel like that invites a lot of conversation and questions, you know, into our marriage and our relationship. It was keeping me up at night. GROSS: Well, I want to take a short break here. And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. And I kept imagining, like, how I had nothing left to give and nothing I could do or say to make anything feel right, like, within me somehow. And I was still dealing with all of it two and a half weeks later. If you see my milk cow, please drive her on home cause I had no milk and butter no since my cows been gone. This happened to me two and a half weeks before Texas abortion ban went into effect. Well be right back. And after we recorded it, he said, thats a really good song. Im not joking. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. So theres thinking my thinking is that my granddad married my grandmother knowing that she was pregnant with somebody elses child. And (laughter) I, like, played the part. And she was also holding down a day job as a single mom. "Maybe it was circumstance, but I saw my chance and I took it," she boasts, her tone fuzzed-out by distortion. ", 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. 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). But I think she probably knew. You can say I lost my grip. 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. Home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943-1974, the Ryman earned the moniker \"Mother Church of Country Music\" as the genres of country and bluegrass developed on its stage and found a national audience on radio and television. And she was like, I had no idea. SHIRES: (Singing) Im well aware of what the nights made of. Curled up on the floor with it all. 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 A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love. So lets do that. I dont understand why its such a big issue, as big of an issue as it is. Isbell said everyone attending the bands shows would also be required to wear a mask. I cant see a thing from here. In the past, white men have said otherwise. With artists and concert promoters nationwide forced to confront a surging spike in infections and hospitalizations attributed to the spread of the delta variant, Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Life cant help but interfere. 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'. And it was a picture of hands holding on to nothing. "Through a sunset, shifting gears, to the something better shining diamond clear.". The players in the band, they took me seriously as a player, but they also understood that I was a kid.. We just couldnt get along. Ive found and scrounged and continued to for every interview that hes done in any form and any language. 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