All rights reserved (About Us). 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 theres a medication you can take that aborts the fertilized egg from your fallopian tube. SHIRES: Well, myself and Brandi wrote the song. So I think she did a good job. 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.. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. We found all this out afterwards. Im glad to hear it. While the idea was mine, it wasnt only me that made this Highwomen be a thing. 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. And if you want another kind of love, Ill wear a mask for you. And she was also holding down a day job as a single mom. She sings of the excruciating awareness of both mirroring and superseding her own mother. And I said, I dont know. It sounds like you were about to leave the marriage. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start And after he did his time, he didnt say anything about it. 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. 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. It de-stigmatizes the conversation. And I was like, my granddad was in Alcatraz? Never one to shy away from his beliefs, Isbell implored his fellow man, in Alabama or otherwise, to get vaccinated, that is, if they wanted to see him perform in person, hoping to make a difference. Im a big, big fan. 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. It was Fault Lines.. SHIRES: (Singing) Im well aware of what the nights made of. Look at Texas' Primary. Become a member of WLIW ($5 monthly or $60 annually) and get access to WLIW Passport as our thanks for your support. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. 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? I got to a certain age and realized I couldnt be Indiana Jones.. And I really liked it. Which would I rather have? It was keeping me up at night. And then, really, while the idea was mine, it wasnt only me that made The Highwomen be a thing. I would have died; my daughter, Mercy, would have lost her mother; my husband, Jason, would be a widower. hide caption. Thank you for your songs. Im so glad you wrote it. It was it took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi, and then it took Natalie and Maren Morris. But finding a voice now and sharing their stories now is as good as any time. 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. But, yeah, after a while thinking about it, I got more comfortable with it. 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. GROSS: Oh, I wish he could have heard you do it. Like, I know that in all of the searching that he did still believe that there was something bigger out there. GROSS: Yeah. GROSS: You forced yourself in the position of having him hear you play? People forget, Shires says. We just couldnt get along. The tracks release Since publishing my op-ed, Ive heard from some folks who are in their eighties. This is FRESH AIR. SHIRES: I dont know that well, I dont know that I was going to leave or that Jason was going to leave. Whereas before, I would just, in my mind, wish it was something different like Etta James or something. When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. Demographer Diana Greene Foster conducted a 10-year study tracking both people who had abortions and people who were denied abortions. GROSS: What I hear in your voice is that it rings out. And then, we did it, sing the song. So theres thinking my thinking is that my granddad married my grandmother knowing that she was pregnant with somebody elses child. Amanda Rose Shires (born March 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. I dont understand why its such a big issue, as big of an issue as it is. But I think folks forget that access to abortion and reproductive healthcare is not just about terminating unwanted pregnancy. 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. SHIRES: In 2016, I was going on the road. A lark in the shower from the night to the morning after. It goes, (singing) I woke up this morning, and I looked out my door. Yeah without you asking. AMANDA SHIRES: (Singing) Youre leaving now through the hole of an argument. I would like to think that fans can hold their role models and their favorite musicians accountable. For my children, I did what I had to do. Bergen is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. 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. You could say its all my fault. The Truth About Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell - TheList.com And so I felt in my mind, I felt those things. It took me a minute to really learn how to improvise, Shires says of those early years. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in the new song The Problem.. I know what the cost is in the octaves of consequence. She was going to school. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). The majority of people are in favor of womens reproductive rights and health; its others were trying to get to. People will have to prove that they have been raped. (Playing guitar, singing) Like a common loon, I started hearing birds, birdsong everywhere. SHIRES: Sure. SHIRES: Thank you so much. On forming the all-female country super-group The Highwomen. And I hadnt heard the fiddle being played at all. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. How are we going to police that? During "Break Out the Champagne," Shires wryly relates an account of a female friend who was dumped by a dullard, only to realize that he'd never really satisfied her anyway: "I'm rock and rock and roll, and you're golf." Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Say whatever feels better or whatever. GROSS: Were you nervous about being on stage or just about singing? SHIRES: Well, that was that parts a secret, Terry. When we left off, we were talking about when Shires was 15 and started playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys, which used to be Bob Wills band. If we tell our stories, it helps other people feel empowered. And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? You can say I lost my grip. Is there a song that youd like to do? And from there, he introduced me to Frankie McWhorter. I mean, only just now nine months later, interestingly enough have I returned to having normal periods. It felt like maybe wed both leave at the same time. And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. On August 10, my life was savedthese are some dark days.. Isbell took a stand, even facing backlash from his fellow artists. 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. Where are our Nashville folks? SHIRES: Yeah. My guest, Amanda Shires, is a singer, songwriter and fiddle player. And I save them all. SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. Shires new album, Take It Like A Man, includes several songs she wrote that came out of a difficult period in her marriage to Jason Isbell. Wade was leaked last month, Amanda Shires shared some personal news on social media. And the fallopian tube just cant it it cant expand enough to accommodate a growing fetus. SHIRES: It was because Tommy Allsup was living in Snyder, Texas, at that time, and he was running the Bob Wills band. 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