It makes it feel like youre tough enough for the fight, all the way down to your bones. And I was trying to sing that song A Little Walk With You (ph). The next time Jason Isbell told Amanda Shires he wanted to quit, she began talking with his manager about facilitating a trip to rehab. However, the "night-before bender" nearly broke them. Shires told WNYC Studios, "He wanted to do every drug, drink every thing, drink the moonshine, all the late night stuff, it was crazy. My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. Being from Muscle Shoals is kind of like having a cool tattoo or something., After getting sober, writing and recording the new album felt more natural to me, says Isbell, lighting a cigarette as seagulls caw overhead. Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun. feeling fine but well have to cancel the next few shows, He then shared his symptoms and expressed his gratitude for getting vaccinated: Lotta sinus drainage type stuff, scratchy in my throat and some muscle aches but no cough or breathing issues fyi. If writing came easier sober, playing live was terrifying at first, he says. 99.99%. It made me think, You know, I bet our grandmothers are more pro-choice than everybody leads us to believe.. Trending But I think she probably knew. And even on the charts, theres one spot usually I think 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. It was love at first listen. And I was really into that. I also received responses from trolls. Its a great song, so I thought wed play some of it. 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. Because thats not how I go into songwriting. Shed been learning to play classical music on In the past, white men have said otherwise. I was lucky. Me and @JasonIsbell RCA studio B making a musical recording. The song is called Hawk For The Dove.. Having recently moved to Nashville with Shires whose own fourth solo album, Down Fell the Doves, comes out next week the newlyweds will sequester themselves in different corners of the house to write new songs, then play them for each other. And my hands are two empty cups. We would sleep on the floor in the closet there because she would do the night shift, because she would was going to school in the daytime for being a nurse. Teaching himself to hear his own songs objectively has been one of the harder lessons to learn, he says: Its impossible to get that distance for me. Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. I like the way these lines kind of happened in our lives and like tributaries in a way that we dont realize are happening. Chris Tompkins, a high school friend who has co-written mainstream country hits including Carrie Underwoods Before He Cheats and Florida Georgia Lines Get Your Shine On, says Isbell seemed on a different level even back when they were covering Stairway to Heaven together. When I would write the songs, I dont know whats going to come out, but sometimes I was just so down that the only way I could get better was to take it out on writing a song., Shires sings and plays fiddle throughout this interview. The Truth About Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell - TheList.com 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. And these guys are in their 70s and 80s, and it was very much like hanging out with lots of granddads. If you want a boxer, Ill step in the ring for you. FRESH AIRs executive producer is Danny Miller. They might not have had a voice before or might have been cast out into the streets without any place to sleep had they mentioned it earlier in their lives. And in this certain period of time, there was a lot. Victoria is scheduled to open for Isbell on this tour. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) Three months after an emergency heart transplant, Grammy-nominated keyboardist, producer, songwriter and artist Peter Levin 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. 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. Im on your side. SHIRES: Theres a medication that you cant take right now after, you know, about two weeks after this happened to me. 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. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. I mean, only just now nine months later, interestingly enough have I returned to having normal periods. And my stuff worked. The sound of silence rings in every room. I know everyone is scared of losing their rung on the ladder, but there are more important things, I think, than your fame. I tried so hard to make myself clear. After trailing off there, she draws a thorny conclusion about the web of intimate, familial dependency: "Maybe being human is an orphaned condition and what's missing isn't what should be found. Fellow singer/songwriter Aimee Mann tweeted well wishes to Isbell: Im so sorry. Where are our Nashville folks? Why was that the verse that you wrote or sang for yourself? And I told my mom to come over because I had something to show her. Wills was the father of western swing. And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. And usually that works. In 2020, she penned an op-ed for Rolling Stone about why abortion rights matter. 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). The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. And I know that he feels the same way I do. Also, during this time when I was leaving, I was thinking about how [my daughter] Mercy picked up a kazoo and she could play a kazoo. Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem.. Or is this through listening to his records that you feel like youre his disciple? SHIRES: She did. The spurs of hip bones Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? GROSS: That your Father had spent 25 years in Alcatraz? GROSS: So how seriously were you taken by the musicians in the band? Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. 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. But and after you did the main melody part, you get to improvise. Will you look at me the same? SHIRES: Yes. 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. And I said, thats all you have to say? But for me, I was just happy to be up there playing music I loved. Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, well talk about the power, promise and potential harm of YouTube. She sings of the excruciating awareness of both mirroring and superseding her own mother. Shires told her producer Dave Cobb, who also served as bassist in the album's indie rock-leaning band (with Isbell on lead guitar), "My violin needs to sound like it's in an aquarium, but more bright. And then coupled with the pandemic and all that, he was on self-preservation mode, and I was too. When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn He could still leave it dish in the sink, you know? And all I could think to say/Was everythings going to be OK/Its gonna be all right/Im on your side, he sings. 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. Then I tried recording it in a couple of other situations, and I just didnt have it right yet. 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. I want Garth Brooks out there telling people that womens health is a priority. Since starting I So Lounging, Shires YouTube following has grown 300 percent. Along JASON ISBELL: (Singing) What do you want to do? 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. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. I am your man. 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. Moon, in all your splendor. And I hadnt heard the fiddle being played at all. photos by @alyssegafkjen In 2020, The Highwomen won Album of the Year at the Americana Music Honors and Awards ceremony. SHIRES: I just I have never been a fan of the way my voice sounds. You know, like, how does that go? As they talked, And if you want a doctor, Ill examine every inch of you. credit: John Shearer. Amanda Shires is a singing, songwriting. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. 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. And I know that Jasons platform is bigger than mine. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. I hope you get well soon. Isbell responded, Thank you Aimee. Im going to play fiddle and Im going to sing in. GROSS: Lawrence Rothman produced your new album. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. Lets get back to the interview I recorded last week with singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires. 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. GROSS: Good. I know what the cost is in the octaves of consequence. SHIRES: I forced myself in that position. Its pretty obvious.. After recording and touring for several years with the Drive-By Truckers, for whom he wrote standouts including Decoration Day, Outfit and Danko/Manuel, Isbell launched his solo career in 2007. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. And that song, its part my story and part, you know, stories I know from friends. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. 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 I got awarded a scholarship to be able to go to those. GROSS: Oh, I wish he could have heard you do it. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. Amanda Shires' To the Sunset comes out Aug. 3. 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. Learn more about his tour. 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. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. I was snared by your wrist. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Interracial marriages cant happen. Privacy rights are going to be gone. Ive found and scrounged and continue to for every interview that hes done in any form, in any language. "I did a parking lot pirouette / I said, 'You're right I'm not done with you yet.'" But they took me seriously, but they also knew the seriousness and the impact of the help that they were giving me. And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? And I was like, thats what I want to do, because you play this song. Why didnt more people show up and speak up? 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. Its just like you would expect, but theres real, scientific proof for it now. What does he have to lose? She was going to school. My guest, Amanda Shires, is a singer, songwriter and fiddle player. I just feel like that invites a lot of conversation and questions, you know, into our marriage and our relationship. On your Twitter, you describe yourself as a disciple of Leonard Cohen. SHIRES: On August 9, yes, I was in Texas at Austin City Limits. 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. SHIRES: I began writing that song when I did the record My Piece Of Land a long while back. And from there, he introduced me to Frankie McWhorter. The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. 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. It took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi and then it took Natalie [Hemby] and Maren Morris. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. When Roe is overturned, some healthcare workers may feel afraid to help people. Im Terry Gross. 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