Rock & roll kids just let decisions make themselves. Is there a song that you could play a Leonard Cohen song you could play an excerpt of for us in tribute to him since were both such great fans? The South is in need of a lot of help, Shires tells Rolling Stone. OK. Hearing these stories, I think that it makes your backbone stronger. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. Shires has an MFA in poetry, and she's exacting in her use of imagery to portray sensuality as a force both internal and physical. 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. 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. I didnt want to do more damage. GROSS: Lets take another break here. Victoria is scheduled to open for Isbell on this tour. Fellow singer/songwriter Aimee Mann tweeted well wishes to Isbell: Im so sorry. Its no fun but well be alright.. It was keeping me up at night. Just admit Im what you want. 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. SHIRES: We were writing that, and Brandi was like, Im going to take the first one. Why not? And so you know Ill say, I dont know, but no ones going to be asking me. It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment, strange as the blue up above. 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. SHIRES: But some of the words are funny. GROSS: You know, your husband plays on this album, but the songs are about a bad period in your marriage. And I followed a dress code. Long before weathering the isolating COVID-19 pandemic, Shires had endured years of studio experiences where producers and musicians undermined her You dont see a lot of men speaking up, and every voice is helpful. So I started just taking notes on the radio because I heard it. Shires has released seven solo albums starting in 2005, her most recent being Take It Like a Man in 2022. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. 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. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 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. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer and musician Amanda Shires, and her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. Well be right back. Im glad to be a listener and also glad to see folks from those generations supporting the right to choose. hide caption. Ive listened to all of his records. What didnt I say that could have helped change one mind? I cant live with the idea of not speaking up. 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. 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. It could be something you played. GROSS: So this track features you, Natalie Hemby and Yola as a guest artist on it. Why didnt more people show up and speak up? 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. Theres nothing left to fix. Why did you want to form this group? The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist from Green Hill, Ala., made headlines in 2021 for requiring proof of vaccination or proof of a recent negative COVID test to attend his concerts. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud, If you say those things out loud, it makes a difference. 2023 WNET. If writing came easier sober, playing live was terrifying at first, he says. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. And then I asked Chance, and Chance was like, no, those are real documents. And your verse, you are somebody who thinks of herself as a healer but was hung in the gallows during the Salem witch trials. 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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. And then you also youve got guys thatll back you up. I am Terry Gross. So Im going to ask you to play one more song from your new album, to perform it for us. I didnt believe it. SHIRES: Ive listened to all of his records. We found out that, yes, our grandmothers are pro-choice. Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. SHIRES: Thank you so much. And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. GROSS: So that was Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys from 1940, their song, New San Antonio Rose, with Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar. Learn more about his tour. You can just say Im crazy. But I am living still. But if you dont, youre going to be wondering, What didnt I do? And sometimes Tommy would show me stuff on guitar, like a melody to play, and then see if I could memorize it or retain it or whatever. Web0:00 / 2:57 Amanda Shires - Fault Lines (Official Audio) Amanda Shires 26.8K subscribers Subscribe 23K views 6 months ago "Fault Lines" is on Amanda Shires' new album. As it turns out, it did start some conversations within our own families. Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. Because thats not how I go into songwriting. 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. Where the fuck are the rest of them? 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. 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). Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem. The tracks release coincides with International Safe Abortion Day and proceeds from its sales will go to the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive justice organization based in Alabama. I know I can take it like a man. In the first half of the 20th century citizens from every walk of life gathered at the Ryman to enjoy the greatest preachers, entertainers, speakers and politicians of the day. SHIRES: I didnt know anything about them. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? Jason Isbell will put his tour on hold after announcing he tested positive with for COVID-19. Im your Amanda. I want to talk with you about The Highwomen. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) Three months after an emergency heart transplant, Grammy-nominated keyboardist, producer, songwriter and artist Peter Levin Click the audio link above to get the full experience, On channeling her feelings about her marriage into writing Fault Lines and showing it to Isbell, I went and I sat down in my barn of internal wandering, and this is after some kind of nebulous argument, and I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine, I said, I just wrote this song. 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? Me and @JasonIsbell RCA studio B making a musical recording. I dont have certain kinds of fatigue. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. And this is basically, like, a country supergroup. I like the way these lines kind of happened in our lives and like tributaries in a way that we dont realize are happening. Lawrence Rothman has been a model of self accepting themselves. And this is the iteration of the band Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, which got their start in they were most famous in the 30s and 40s and 50s. 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. SHIRES: (Singing) If you want a lover, Ill do anything you ask me to. 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. A person having a miscarriage may have to fly to another state, just so they or their doctor doesnt get into legal trouble. And I remember the first time I sang ever, Leon Rausch had to hold my hand. 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. GROSS: Whoa. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. 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 GROSS: And me of you, so thank you. Dont support artists who dont support your rights. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. So thanks to them as well. So lets hear a song about when things werent so all right. 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. GROSS: So one of the ways you ended up becoming a songwriter as well as a singer and musician was that Billy Joe Shaver heard you play. And I was really into that. 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." 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. GROSS: I think its time for another break. 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 The tracks release In 2020, she penned an op-ed for Rolling Stone about why abortion rights matter. I think a lot of women are born healers and nurturers. (Singing) Time was all Id want. SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. Amanda Shires. SHIRES: Yes. For my children, I did what I had to do. With artists and concert promoters nationwide forced to confront a surging spike in infections and hospitalizations attributed to the spread of the delta variant, GROSS: Oh, thats great. But finding a voice now and sharing their stories now is as good as any time. fiddle-playing damn Texan. In 2017, for her solo work, she was named emerging artist of the year at the Americana Music & Honors Awards ceremony. As if to match it, she experimented for the first time with filtering the sound of her fiddle through effects pedals, which lends her playing a fierce luminescence. So hold on to your thoughts. A few hours later, his band is peeling the wallpaper with their customary encore cover tune. 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. And while I I know the voice that I have is what I have. My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. Boosted and very grateful for it., When a fan asked how his wife Amanda Shires and their daughter are feeling, Isbell answered, Mercy is negative with no symptoms and Amanda didnt come with me on this run, shes negative at home. 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. 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. 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. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. 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: How did you end up actually playing in the Texas Playboys band? SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. And so I just had to get emergency surgery to remove the tube and clean the blood from inside of my body. Its yet another thing that, when policing does happen, is going to happen haphazardly and ruin lives. 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 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. Thats what I want. And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. SHIRES: No, not until a couple of years ago. Theyre just, you know, scans of them. It rings out like its supposed to. Look at Texas' Primary. 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. The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. When youre trying to make a tough decision, you need a lot of support. I want Garth Brooks out there telling people that womens health is a priority. To keep the newness from wearing off, for every start theres gonna be a stop. In the past, white men have said otherwise. 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