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. And after we recorded it, he said, thats a really good song. This is FRESH AIR. And I was still dealing with all of it two and a half weeks later. It makes it feel like youre tough enough for the fight, all the way down to your bones. 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. Thank you for performing for us. I was lucky. Soon after a Supreme Court draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. And so I felt in my mind, I felt those things. Thats, like, part of your identity on Twitter. And then you also get to play you get to improvise, which is when you go off the page, as they say, or you just play what you feel within the chords. GROSS: Oh, thats great. And Lanny Fiel, he would say, youre really, really great at the parts you love. Her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. Well be right back. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. 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. Im a big, big fan. Demographer Diana Greene Foster conducted a 10-year study tracking both people who had abortions and people who were denied abortions. And in this case, I wanted Jason to also come in and sing it, too. What happened between now and then? fiddle-playing damn Texan. 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 It doesnt have to be Im Your Man. I just know that youve done that. The attention hes getting for Southeastern, from the opening recovery track Cover Me Up and the brutally stark Elephant to the full-throttle raver Super 8, feels like its coming at the right time, after hed had ample opportunity to get good at what he does. You had an abortion. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem.. And my hands are two empty cups. Another is a freedom rider who died during the Freedom Rides. I hope that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it causes such a fucking uproar that we end up with more rights than we had before. You can call it serious trouble cause thats what I want. And I also want to thank Zack Sedgefield for playing guitar and also Diana Walsh, who engineered your end of the music and the conversation from your home studio in well, outside of Nashville. So did you ever visit her at work? On your Twitter, you describe yourself as a disciple of Leonard Cohen. That last talk left me a makeup rainbow of tears, turned everything blurry. It seems like a simple thing to say, but its really true. ISBELL: (Singing) And all I could think to say was. SHIRES: Yep, yep on his songs without asking him. But this part of my life in our marriage was difficult. Michael Schmelling. Life cant help but interfere. There were probably 2,500 people, and Im just standing there with a guitar, elevated and facing everyone. 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. And hes saying, you know, basically that hes going to support her and hes there for her. What does that phrase mean to you? You may opt-out by, U.S. And Zachs going to play guitar. And I was thinking about how much the stories matter. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? You can say its all my fault. Whereas before, I would just, in my mind, wish it was something different like Etta James or something. GROSS: Amanda Shires, its been such a pleasure to talk with you. I didnt start learning how to accept my voice until recently. 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Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. 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. Ive found and scrounged and continued to for every interview that hes done in any form and any language. It sounds like you were about to leave the marriage. But they took me seriously, but they also knew the seriousness and the impact of the help that they were giving me. GROSS: Oh, thats so funny. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 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. Dont support artists who dont support your rights. Is that right? 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. And in this certain period of time, there was a lot. So heres my guest, Amanda Shires, and Jason Isbell singing her song, The Problem.. We have Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers speaking up, and Ariana Grande. Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. I am your man. Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires to Serve as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors. Im all for freedom, but I think if youre dead, you dont have any freedoms at all, Isbell said. SHIRES: Well, that was that parts a secret, Terry. Too caught up in the way I want you rolling over me. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires perform at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. 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. Then I get to the end of the recording process and try to decide what makes the best collection of songs. To see more, visit. And I hadnt heard the fiddle being played at all. And you got your start professionally at age 15 playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys. And I was trying to sing that song A Little Walk With You (ph). 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 nobody would let me in, but I sat there anyway. Im Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. And Milk Cow Blues goes like this. SHIRES: Ive listened to all of his records. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Where are our Nashville folks? 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. And usually that works. Lets get back to my interview with Amanda Shires, a great singer and songwriter who also co-founded the band The Highwomen, which is a kind of all-star country music band. And the reason I think that my grandmother knew is because also lately, we found out that my moms oldest sister isnt doesnt have the same dad as her, as my granddad. And we would be quiet so that she wouldnt get in trouble because it was a lot then to be a single mom and deal with the difference in pay for men versus women. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Sam Briger, Lauren Krenzel, Heidi Saman, Therese Madden, Ann Marie Baldonado, Thea Chaloner, Seth Kelley and Susan Nyakundi. SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. No more? "Maybe it was circumstance, but I saw my chance and I took it," she boasts, her tone fuzzed-out by distortion. Amid the rise in infections, it was reported last week that one of the worlds most prominent concert promoters, Live Nation, will allow artists performing at its venues to require guests in the U.S. to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test. SHIRES: Yeah. SHIRES: Theres this song called Milk Cow Blues. Its blues, you know? I tried so hard to make myself clear. And while I I know the voice that I have is what I have. Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. How are we going to police that? Or is this through listening to his records that you feel like youre his disciple? And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. SHIRES: Oh, yeah. 2023 WNET. Lawrence Rothman has been a model of self accepting themselves. Why didnt more people show up and speak up? Shes also one of the founders of the group the Highwomen. A few hours later, his band is peeling the wallpaper with their customary encore cover tune. 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.. SHIRES: I mean OK Im going to call her up after this, too. Thats abundantly clear on his breakout new album, Southeastern, one of the years best in any genre. People dont have to come to a concert, Isbell said. And then and the words are amazing and always brought me a smile. It rings out like its supposed to. 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. 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. I just feel like that invites a lot of conversation and questions, you know, into our marriage and our relationship. Isbell took a stand, even facing backlash from his fellow artists. The majority of people are in favor of womens reproductive rights and health; its others were trying to get to. Interracial marriages cant happen. Privacy rights are going to be gone. So I started just taking notes on the radio because I heard it. So either you have surgery or I think you die. I am Terry Gross. 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. GROSS: Good. It was love at first listen, Shires says of the fiddle songs. 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. GROSS: Yeah. 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. SHIRES: Thank you so much. Amanda Shires. I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew my time had come. SHIRES: Sure. And healer seemed fitting for me not only because it happened that way, but my moms a nurse. 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 so glad you wrote it. He asserted that the band would cancel the concert if any venue refused to agree to their requirements. GROSS: Well, thank you for doing that. 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. You can have as much fun. 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. SHIRES: Oh, yes, Mercy is my daughter. Which brings up the question, why were Jason and I, and Margo Price, the biggest celebrities quasi-celebrities at the march in Nashville? 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? Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. 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 your verse, you are somebody who thinks of herself as a healer but was hung in the gallows during the Salem witch trials. And she came over and I showed her. And I said, yeah, I feel like theres not a lot happening there emotionally for me. And I know that he feels the same way I do. But I just got up on a stage and took the fiddle and started playing it. You know, like, how does that go? SHIRES: (Singing) Im well aware of what the nights made of. This is FRESH AIR. Some of the reason [The Problem] is only coming out now is fear on my part, and Ill admit that. SHIRES: Oh, I would have had to find somebody to drive me to Mexico or somewhere else. SHIRES: On August 9, yes, I was in Texas at Austin City Limits. He still cant seem to notice when the dishwashers unloaded and all the dishes are put away. 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. Theres nothing left to fix. GROSS: The bail bondsmen are often their offices are often located in a very low-rent part of town. SHIRES: No, not until a couple of years ago. SHIRES: Thats well, see, Im accepting that it sounds like its supposed to now. How Trump's Team Conned Susan Collins Into Dooming Roe v. Wade, Add Abortion to the List of Things Republicans Are Blaming for Uvalde, Want to Know What Politics Looks Like After Roe? The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. And that, to me, was incredible, because they had abortions in what was a pre-Roe v. Wade environment and theyre only now sharing their stories for the first time. 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GROSS: One of the things I love about his music is the way he combined the spiritual and the profane in his songs and the spiritual and, like, anger and resentment and despair. GROSS: That your Father had spent 25 years in Alcatraz? (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. I dont feel like it matches whats going on inside my brain. And I was really into that. Me and @JasonIsbell RCA studio B making a musical recording. GROSS: Were you nervous about being on stage or just about singing? 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. And then I thought about Waylon and Kris and them of The Highwaymen, and I was like, they were kind of speaking about ageism. No way. How did you come up with the image of my hands are two empty cups? And then my orchestra teacher recommended me to a private violin teacher. SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. The tracks release 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. It took me a minute to really learn how to improvise, Shires says of those early years. Isbell said everyone attending the bands shows would also be required to wear a mask. Then I tried recording it in a couple of other situations, and I just didnt have it right yet. As they talked, And I remember the first time I sang ever, Leon Rausch had to hold my hand. Why not? When it reopened, he was in the first 200. Im glad to hear it. And I said, Id love to. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. SHIRES: (Singing) Im scared to even say the truth. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. Her study essentially proves that when folks cant have an abortion, it affects their mental health, their economic standing, their overall well-being. For those who are unfamiliar, it is impossible for an ectopic pregnancy to go to term. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? Its a lot like writing a song about it. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? And when I would write these songs, it was never in my mind, oh, I have to record them. The spurs of hip bones Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? And thank you for putting up with me. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. I like the way these lines kind of happened in our lives and like tributaries in a way that we dont realize are happening. 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. And it was a picture of hands holding on to nothing. OK. And we met. And I guess when we got to the third album sequence that I had, Jason was like, why isnt Fault Lines on there? Were proud to be from that area. And if you want a doctor, Ill examine every inch of you. Girls high school basketball team forfeits a game because it refused to play against a team with a transgender player, Fox Leaders Wanted to Break From Trump but Struggled to Make It Happen, Not Going to Read That: White House Press Secretary Brushes Off DeSantis Op-Ed, Sunshine returns to SoCal on Thursday but cold temps stick around, AccuWeather: AM showers before a mild afternoon, Opening arguments heard in court for 2020 Conway fatal shooting that killed a 19-year-old. GROSS: What I hear in your voice is that it rings out. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. But anyway so I went and I sat down in my barn of internal wandering. Since starting I So Lounging, Shires YouTube following has grown 300 percent. SHIRES: But some of the words are funny. On Shires' latest record, her songwriting is more fearless and vulnerable than ever but as always, it's a reflection of an artist focused intently on community, equality 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. We both know that none of that was keeping, keeping me anyhow. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. 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. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. And there was a guy that also played the guitar, like a multi-instrumentalist side person. 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. Here was my life five years ago, and heres my life now. I heard in 22 songs, one womans voice I heard. I mean, many songwriters would say, oh, theyre not about me. Were you just, like, the cute kid who could play but, you know that audiences would go wild over because you were a girl in the band and there wasnt much of that? Well definitely get to your verse, which is the second one. 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. 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 occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasnt an adventure, he says. Also, during this time when I was leaving, I was thinking about how Mercy was you know, picked up a kazoo, and she could play a kazoo. And she was also holding down a day job as a single mom. The way she relaxes into low notes on that last line makes it sound far more like an unembarrassed confession than a complaint. I would like to think that fans can hold their role models and their favorite musicians accountable. Cancelling shows feels awful, I know. And then, we did it, sing the song. SHIRES: (Singing) If you want a lover, Ill do anything you ask me to. 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. Other than that, I think were all right. And how come you didnt know before? And couple of lessons like that, he pulled out some fiddle tunes that he had been transcribing aurally from Frankie McWhorter. In Portland, he led the band (including his wife on fiddle) through charging, heartfelt songs that often sounded like the cavalry was coming. How did you manage to do that? 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. Im glad to be a listener and also glad to see folks from those generations supporting the right to choose. He has since learned to tell the story of his recovery. And she was doing the bail bonding on the night. Amanda Shires is a singing, songwriting. And sometimes, you know, you can, like, cup your hands and drink water from them or you could cup your hands and I dont know. And Bob Wills was, like, the father of Western Swing, which combined country music and jazz. And he was there for 25 years. If you see my milk cow, please drive her on home cause I had no milk and butter no since my cows been gone. It goes, (singing) I woke up this morning, and I looked out my door. Editors picks 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. When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Celebrate Vinyl and Indie Retail as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors: Were Building the Embassy as We Speak. 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'. Shires wrote the song a few years ago and originally imagined it as a conversation between several women, but revamped it to feature her collaborator and husband. Where does that get us with our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights? I know they enjoy it. SHIRES: (Singing) Trying not to think of names. We want to hear it. We just couldnt get along. 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. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. Amanda Rose Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. And any policing will disproportionately affect people of color, low-income folks and other marginalized groups. In 2017, for her solo work, she was named emerging artist of the year at the Americana Music & Honors Awards ceremony. So lets do that. And then, really, while the idea was mine, it wasnt only me that made The Highwomen be a thing. It took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi and then it took Natalie [Hemby] and Maren Morris. (SOUNDBITE OF AMANDA SHIRES SONG, SWIMMER), GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. One is a Honduran asylum-seeker who died while trying to cross the border. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. They arent helping. GROSS: You grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and Mineral Wells, Texas. I dont understand why its such a big issue, as big of an issue as it is. She has a big conscience, a big heart. But if you dont, youre going to be wondering, What didnt I do? Her new album is Take It Like a Man. 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. The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn I know the cost of flight is landing. With artists and concert promoters nationwide forced to confront a surging spike in infections and hospitalizations attributed to the spread of the delta variant, Grammy award-winning musician, Jason Isbell, announced Monday that he and his band, the 400 Unit, will require concertgoers to provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to attend all their future shows, whether they are held indoors or outdoors. And then coupled with the pandemic and all that, he was on self-preservation mode, and I was too. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. People forget, Shires says. 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. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. And why did you want to work it into a song? And Tommy said, if you can hold down that lower third harmony and Id love to, you know, have that spot filled. We just couldnt get along. SHIRES: But I like it because I like to imagine like, if he was alive and I got to play this for him, I would be singing Im your Amanda. I like to play pool, he says. And Frankie and Lanny, my teachers we were at Lannys house the first time Tommy came over, and then, I met him. 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. This is FRESH AIR. I would she would set us up in the in the closet of the bail bonds office. You have your fiddle with you. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time You dont see a lot of men speaking up, and every voice is helpful. So lets hear a little bit of that song. And after we recorded it, he said, Thats a really good song. And I said, Thats all you have to say. 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. "I did a parking lot pirouette / I said, 'You're right I'm not done with you yet.'" I said, itd be cool if I was The Highwomen or maybe had a band The Highwomen. Elizaveta Porodina/Courtesy of the artist Sign up for Rolling Stones Newsletter. Its as opposed to being in the uterus, where it belongs. ISBELL: (Singing) Im on your side. And tell us how. 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