Youd think that that sort of industry stature would go a long way toward securing Shires musical future but there was a time, a couple of years back, when she wasnt at all certain that shed ever want to make another album. 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. 09-06 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle 09-07 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre 09-09 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club 09-10 Charlottesville, VA . In 2019 she co-founded the country supergroup the Highwomen alongside Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby as a direct response to their frustrations with country rock radio sidelining women. Sign UpYes, I would like to receive Paste's newsletter, 2023 Paste Media Group. 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. Amanda Rose Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. Durch Klicken auf Alle akzeptieren erklren Sie sich damit einverstanden, dass Yahoo und unsere Partner Ihre personenbezogenen Daten verarbeiten und Technologien wie Cookies nutzen, um personalisierte Anzeigen und Inhalte zu zeigen, zur Messung von Anzeigen und Inhalten, um mehr ber die Zielgruppe zu erfahren sowie fr die Entwicklung von Produkten. Is it hard to be pescatarian on the road? AS: I love to make saffron risotto when its cold outside. Musician Amanda Shires (The Highwomen, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) is 41. Shires' new album, Take it Like a Man, includes several songs she wrote during a rough period in her marriage to musician Jason Isbell. 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. You might be my ruining, she sings on Stupid Love. 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. Reproductive health (care) and womens health care is beyond just abortion. 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.". 1.1M monthly listeners. She was discussing her electrifying new album Take It Like a Man, which, if theres any justice in the world or maybe just in Nashville, ought to make this wildly underrated country-music Zelig into a household name. That didnt mean that she had stopped writing songs. Amanda Shires: String cheese, a chocolate peanut butter Power Bar, and a coffee or bottle of water. Joined by frequent collaborator and husband Jason Isbell and her band,. But what really matters when it comes to a major is whether or not you can do something with it when all is said and done. She wasnt convinced. Its become a beautiful thing again.. So, she added with a fiery laugh, pointing a finger at an imaginary enemy, how bout you take that like a man?, Amanda Shires Isnt Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/arts/music/amanda-shires-take-it-like-a-man.html. 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. You can say I lost my grip. Theres a lot of dancing now in the studio, Shires said. Eli Lilly cuts some older insulin prices and caps out-of-pocket costs. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. 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. Paste: There is sort of an idea that if you're a married person, you're not supposed to do all these things, or if you have kids, you're not supposed to have these feelings, she said. Acknowledging your past, and at sunset, your hope for a new day. And I said, "That's all you have to say. Amanda Shires wasnt trying to name-drop, honest. A violinist since childhood, Shires began her career as a sidewoman. I also made two cakes for my friend Cory Branans 40th birthday. Singer/songwriter/producer Lawrence Rothman cold-emailed Shires and sent her a song, hoping that she would sing harmony on it. Amanda Shires wasn't trying to name-drop, honest. Get the latest concert news and more from the St. Louis music scene from Kevin C. Johnson. I'll say what's true I don't know. The job of the songwriter is to give language to hard feeling and hard times as well as joyful times, and thats what I think I do. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. When Amanda Shires' daughter Mercy, who turned 4 on Sunday, began to show interest in music, the singer-songwriter started worrying. Rothman, who was born in St. Louis and lives in Los Angeles, identifies as gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. 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. Bucknor for rejecting handshake: Zero class, Suspect charged in fatal shooting in downtown St. Louis, Man shot and killed after fight in downtown St. Louis, Is Kim Gardner right? (She is also a member of Isbells band, the 400 Unit. That certainly includes the tough stuff. She listened and agreed to do it, thus beginning a string of emails and texts and phone conversations that pulled her back from the precipice. 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. I was on the microphone about to sing, she recalled, and [the producer] was like, Less goat, more note., He apparently disapproved of the vigor of her vibrato, and the struggle to deliver what the producer wanted left Shires acutely self-conscious about her voice. 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. I think thats the job, she says. During Shires Texas childhood, she was focused on musical, not culinary, skill, and persuaded her dad to spring for a cheap pawn-shop fiddle. Her latest single Empty Cups, a piano ballad featuring her Highwomen collaborator Maren Morris on harmony vocals, is perhaps her most affecting addition to this growing canon of songs, which includes standouts like 2013s If I and 2016s Harmless.. You'd just about have to have some of the cockiness that Shires' friends and fans know she has to sing this nakedly about about the uncertain moments. You have permission to edit this article. It was a source of fascination among Americana observers when she found a romantic partner and intellectual equal in Isbell, who let the world know that she was the inspiration for his 2013 ballad of ardent, indebted devotion, Cover Me Up. From then on, as they ascended to power couple status, listeners would parse their lyrics for anything that could be taken as a depiction of their relationship. Shires met Maren Morris, her friend and bandmate in the supergroup the Highwomen, when Morris was a precocious kid of just 10 or 12 singing Blue Moon of Kentucky around a campfire when the two of them happened to be playing the same local festival. Mixed metaphors make her skin crawl; basically anyone who appreciates the infinite power of a well-chosen word, she said, is all right by her. Amanda was about 10 years old when she obtained her first violin and as you can guess she kept at it for as long as she possibly could and is still one of the best in the business today. 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. In her extended bid to prove that the roles of wife, woman and mother need not be prescriptive, Shires does occasionally over-egg her point. Its a modified version of the recipe found on the back of the Hersheys Cocoa box. I know the cost of flight is landing, she declared during a song she created with Rothman and initially dubbed Common Loon, And I know I can take it like a man. It was in that stout statement that she ultimately found her song and album title. Thats the animating spirit, too, she said, behind the provocative album title Take It Like a Man.. 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 Paste: This is an amazing accomplishment for someone that is obviously known by a lot of people but is still kind of on the fringes. Spotting a Subaru parked on the street in front of her mothers house in a new Franklin, Tenn., subdivision, Amanda Shires couldnt resist referencing the cars Consumer Reports rating. This is like one of the best songs Ive ever heard., Take It Like a Man is a haunting torch song that showcases both Shiress voice a little bit Parton, a little bit punk and one of her strengths as a writer, the way her lines can be abstract and concrete at once. 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 . Dang, girl. Right now shes on the road performing her own material, gearing up for a long string of shows in her home state of Texas. 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. "It was love at first listen," Shires says of the fiddle songs. Whats the best meal youve had lately? The strawberry one was new to me. :). Amy Salit and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. So I sent it to Lawrence and they listened to it and said, Well, thats heartbreaking, but its beautiful. 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. These acts don't have plans to visit St. Louis anytime soon, but we tell you where to find them nearby. In 2016 I was going on the road. Please describe that meal, and how you feel about it. Actor Jill Ritchie is 49. I just needed more tools in the toolbox, Shires said. We want to hear it. Actor Karolina Wydra is 42. [3] Production was handled by Lawrence Rothman . Amanda Shires is on the phone from her home in Nashville, wrapping up a 45-minute interview by coming back around to the matter that was foremost on her mind at the start of the conversation: planning for her daughter Mercy's very first birthday later that week. 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. 2. She also hit the road with Billy Joe Shaver, a grizzled outlaw storyteller who couldve been her granddad. You can just say I'm crazy. To see more, visit Fresh Air. When they first met, Isbell said in a phone interview, She was a great songwriter and singer, but she was terrified after some bad experiences. But her first experience in a big-budget Music Row studio was profoundly demoralizing. AS: After a long drive, I try and hunt down a hard cider as soon as I get out of the van. 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. So I started just taking notes on the radio because in 22 songs, [I heard] one woman's voice and it was a Carrie Underwood song from six years before that or something. Fresh Air interviews, though, are in a category by themselves, distinguished by the unique approach of host and executive producer Terry Gross. Both musicians have written about challenging moments in their marriage. Singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is 41. Model Niki Taylor is 48. "That's scary enough as a mom, or as anybody in music it's. Completing her seventh, Take It Like a Man, proved monumental. I recorded Empty Cups after everyone left because I didnt want to accidentally cry or get a shaky voice in front of my friends, Shires says in a statement. Although fans have heralded her as a punk kind of country artist, for Shires, her progressive stance comes as a matter of fact, as, Amanda Shires: Take It Like a Man album cover. 0:00 / 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. 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 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 anthemic track. The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter has spent most of the pandemic shaping her seventh studio album,. Rule No. During Bad Behavior, she relished both toying with and shrugging off the possibility of a casual hookup. 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. 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. That was the best meal I have had in forever. Jason picked it out. Are they just going to sit around and drink beer? Say whatever feels better or whatever. In fact shes almost won as many times as shes been nominated for an award. A lot of joy, occasional tears. Anyone can read what you share. It's something you can't change about yourself.. And then shes like, All right, what do you think? Rothman recalled with an awed chuckle. 'Take It Like A. No more?" A lover of great stories and epic tales, Tom is a fan of old and new-school ideas. I learned over the years to try and eat as cleanly as possible . To be successful as a woman working in an industry, were taught youre not supposed to get emotional, Shires said. In September 2020, Shires and Isbell released a duet called The Problem, a stirring story song about a young couple considering an abortion; all proceeds from the song went to Alabamas Yellowhammer Fund. All of our family besides me pretty much eats turkey, and they said it turned out great, so I was happy about that. Shed come to experience the studio as like being under 2,000 magnifying glasses where youre hearing everything youve ever done wrong really loud.. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Over two or three months, all of a sudden the bathrooms in restaurants and the recording studios were changing to gender-neutral, Rothman said. Freda Love Smith is a drummer and writer whose food memoir, Red Velvet Underground, is forthcoming on Agate. Now that thats happened, the threat to womens health care is even more dire. Amanda Shires is not holding anything back with her latest collection of music. All three talents are showcased on her 2013 release, the Faulknerian Down Fell the Doves. I ended up splitting my pants during a gig. Or anything you definitely do not like to eat before you play? And we met. AS: I dont like to eat a full meal right before I play. Actor Jolene Blalock is 48. Rothman wound up producing her latest album, Take It Like a Man, which was released in July. Townes Van Zandt once said (shes paraphrasing), You can write the blues or zippity doo dah. I tend to go in a sadder direction while doing it joyfully.. 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