In my case, I blame the education system, but I didnt even know what an ectopic pregnancy was. You can just say Im crazy. And there was a guy that also played the guitar, like a multi-instrumentalist side person. Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat, shook and quivering. Im a big, big fan. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. The song is named "Parking Lot Pirouette" for its protagonist's graceful forwardness, her decisive movement to prolong a pleasurable dalliance. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. My daughter was about a year old, and I was getting into my touring van because I hadnt worked my way into a bus yet. 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. 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. As they talked, Isbell was struck with a realization. And then I thought about Waylon and Kris and them of The Highwaymen, and I was like, they were kind of speaking about ageism. 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. 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 While Shires might not have set out to make an album that reminds us of the power of women pursuing their own impulses, desires and ambitions with abandon, that perspective enlivens this bracing 10-song set. Lets get back to the interview I recorded last week with singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires. On top of that, Shires notes, the pro-life stance doesnt typically extend past birth. Her study essentially proves that when folks cant have an abortion, it affects their mental health, their economic standing, their overall well-being. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1lq9aEQTour the Ryman: http://bit.ly/tourtherymanVisit the Ryman Calendar: http://bit.ly/rymanconcertsAbout the Ryman Auditorium:Established in 1982 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed for the visionary who constructed it, Captain Tom G. Ryman, the Ryman Auditorium is a National Historic Landmark and cultural epicenter of Nashville, TN. But finding a voice now and sharing their stories now is as good as any time. I could tell my milk cow I could tell by the way she lows. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Not saying something is not helping. SHIRES: Oh, I would have had to find somebody to drive me to Mexico or somewhere else. Well, why dont you sing some of it for us? Then I get to the end of the recording process and try to decide what makes the best collection of songs. And couple of lessons like that, he pulled out some fiddle tunes that he had been transcribing aurally from Frankie McWhorter. 99.99%. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer, musician Amanda Shires. You may opt-out by, U.S. Michael Schmelling. 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. You can say I lost my grip. Im not a big AA guy, but Ill go every once in a while. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer and musician Amanda Shires. I mean, is it fatal for a woman if nothing is done? A person having a miscarriage may have to fly to another state, just so they or their doctor doesnt get into legal trouble. So theres thinking my thinking is that my granddad married my grandmother knowing that she was pregnant with somebody elses child. A lark in the shower from the night to the morning after. SHIRES: Theres this song called Milk Cow Blues. Its blues, you know? And so you know Ill say, I dont know, but no ones going to be asking me. And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. SHIRES: We were writing that, and Brandi was like, Im going to take the first one. 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 Here was my life five years ago, and heres my life now. SHIRES: Thats all you have to say? But it was true. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. I know everyone is scared of losing their rung on the ladder, but there are more important things, I think, than your fame. 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. Another is a freedom rider who died during the Freedom Rides. It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasnt an adventure, he says. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. And it was a picture of hands holding on to nothing. We have to work hard now to mobilize and help people vote. And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Elizaveta Porodina/Courtesy of the artist, Naming The Beast: Jason Isbell And Amanda Shires On Speaking Up In 2017. And Im coming for you like a hawk for the dove. And this is after some kind of nebulous argument. GROSS: You know, youve said that a lot of the songs on this album come from a troubled period of your marriage to songwriter and singer Jason Isbell, who you perform with and who plays on this album. GROSS: OK. requiring proof of vaccination or proof of a recent negative COVID test, even facing backlash from his fellow artists, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. 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. 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. FRESH AIRs executive producer is Danny Miller. My daughter was about a year old, and I was getting into my touring van because I hadnt worked my way into a bus yet. GROSS: Oh, yeah. What made you think of yourself as his disciple? SHIRES: The audience really never went wild over me because it took me a minute to really learn how to improvise. Her new album of original songs is called Take It Like A Man. She also co-founded the country supergroup the Highwomen, which includes Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. So Im going to ask you to play one more song from your new album, to perform it for us. How did you manage to do that? 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. 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. I remember I used to think the force was strong with him, says Tompkins, who signed his first publishing deal when he moved to Nashville at 22. 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. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. So I started just taking notes on the radio because I heard it. I know the cost of flight is landing. Its a lot like writing a song about it. GROSS: What I hear in your voice is that it rings out. SHIRES: Yep, yep on his songs without asking him. 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. Amanda Shires is in Serious Trouble in Hawk for the Dove Fallon Performance When her distinctive vibrato appears on To the Sunset, as a subtle emotive tool or punctuation in her storytelling, it feels like an electrical charge shuddering through the live wire of her voice. But if you dont, youre going to be wondering, What didnt I do? I see you talking, but I cant hear a thing. And while I I know the voice that I have is what I have. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Life cant help but interfere. Too caught up in the way I want you rolling over me. Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. SHIRES: On August 9, yes, I was in Texas at Austin City Limits. 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. Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. Opening with solemn piano chords, The Problem features Isbells voice first, then Shires joins, and the pair trade lines as they move the story along. The majority of people are in favor of womens reproductive rights and health; its others were trying to get to. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) Three months after an emergency heart transplant, Grammy-nominated keyboardist, producer, songwriter and artist Peter Levin (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, SWIMMER), GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. And after we recorded it, he said, thats a really good song. BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) I was a Highwoman and a mother from my youth. It could be something you played. And I said, thats all you have to say? WebAmanda Shires - The Problem (feat. I want Garth Brooks out there telling people that womens health is a priority. And we had a TV that wed watch, you know, Saturday Night Live on Saturdays. I just feel like that invites a lot of conversation and questions, you know, into our marriage and our relationship. The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. I know I can take it like a man. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. One is a Honduran asylum-seeker who died while trying to cross the border. And then I asked Chance, and Chance was like, no, those are real documents. I cant see a thing from here. Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Well be right back. SHIRES: I mean OK Im going to call her up after this, too. Thats, like, part of your identity on Twitter. Its a great song, so I thought wed play some of it. I would like to think that fans can hold their role models and their favorite musicians accountable. Where would that leave my own daughter? When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. photos by @alyssegafkjen SHIRES: And I think Sheryl Crow plays bass on that one. You used to lean in like I was whispering, any excuse to get near again. A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love. And, you know, I didnt know that this was a thing you should normally ask to do cause I was young. 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.. We have Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers speaking up, and Ariana Grande. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. Hearing these stories, I think that it makes your backbone stronger. But I thought, what am I going to do about that in the event that she does go into country music? I like to play pool, he says. Theyre just songs because everybody goes through troubles in their relationship. GROSS: Good. Isbell took a stand, even facing backlash from his fellow artists. GROSS: Thats the title song from the new album. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. No more? GROSS: Well, I want to take a short break here. 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). Trending Since starting I So Lounging, Shires YouTube following has grown 300 percent. 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. Ninety-five percent of study participants who did have an abortion still stood by their decision. Look at Texas' Primary. Then her character takes control of the exchange in a teasing tone. So I dont have to go trying to learn all these other things. So lets hear a little bit of that song. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. So she did daytime job. All the time, the want, the overwhelming volume of breathing. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. Since publishing my op-ed, Ive heard from some folks who are in their eighties. What does that phrase mean to you? 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. SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. Its just like you would expect, but theres real, scientific proof for it now. And I was like, thats what I want to do, because you play this song. Some of the reason [The Problem] is only coming out now is fear on my part, and Ill admit that. Not standing up for folks is not helping and its not right. I would she would set us up in the in the closet of the bail bonds office. I was doing fine, and then, I was just like no sound would come out of my mouth. 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: I think its so interesting that your mother worked as a bail bondsman, not knowing that her own father had spent so much time in prison. I had people threatening me. And why did you want to work it into a song? And I followed a dress code. And I thought if Im going to get any rest, Im going to have to do something about this. Because once you have a baby, theres no social programming to help. For my children, I did what I had to do. The way she relaxes into low notes on that last line makes it sound far more like an unembarrassed confession than a complaint. I laid hands upon the world. Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. Ive listened to all of his records. 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. 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). And Empty Cups wasnt even the hardest one for me to put on there. And I was like, my granddad was in Alcatraz? Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Lets start with a track from the new album. And then, really, while the idea was mine, it wasnt only me that made The Highwomen be a thing. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. During the #MeToo moment, much emphasis has been rightly placed on the need for women to guard themselves against the unrestrained appetites of male perpetrators. I want to talk with you about The Highwomen. SHIRES: Ive listened to all of his records. She has a big conscience, a big heart. Wills was the father of western swing. The most-watched episode was from April 8th, filmed the day after John Prine hide caption. So either you have surgery or I think you die. You have your fiddle with you. Its not competition, Isbell makes clear with a chuckle. And one day we wound up in the studio and we cut the song. 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.. Its yet another thing that, when policing does happen, is going to happen haphazardly and ruin lives. And Zachs going to play guitar. Here Are The Republicans Who Want Him Kicked Out, Rupert Murdoch Must Tell Fox News Hosts To Stop Spreading Election Lies, Congressional Democrats Demand, Trump Attacks Rupert Murdoch And Fox NewsAgainClaiming Destruction Of America Amid Defamation Lawsuit, These U.S.-Listed Stocks SurgeAlibaba, Baidu And MoreAfter Chinas Economic Rebound, Top NFL Prospect Jalen Carter Charged For Alleged Role In Fatal Street Race, Bite-Sized TikTok Poetry Blows UpAlong With Growing Claims Of Plagiarism, As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe, Live Nation Allows Artists to Require Vaccination or Proof of Negative Test Result for U.S. Concerts. 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