Thank you for your songs. We both know that none of that was keeping, keeping me anyhow. On August 10, my life was savedthese are some dark days.. And we met. Elizaveta Porodina/Courtesy of the artist, Naming The Beast: Jason Isbell And Amanda Shires On Speaking Up In 2017. And as it happened, eventually the auxiliary cable quit working in the van so I was left to the radio choices of sports ball and Top 40 country music. Video Playlist: Drive-By Truckers Play Pared-Down Southern Rock, You can still find those adventures if you surround yourself with the right people, Isbell tells Rolling Stone, sitting at a picnic table on the roof of the Port City Music Hall in Portland, Maine, where hell perform in a couple of hours, a few days after his Newport set. All Rights reserved. When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. I just fell in love with the music, is what happened. 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 She was in her home recording studio with her fiddle and with guitarist Zach Setchfield, and they played a few songs. And thank you for putting up with me. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? And the other parts, youre just kind of asleep. (Playing fiddle). These really arent personal. She was going to school. Isbell said everyone attending the bands shows would also be required to wear a mask. And I followed a dress code. Life cant help but interfere. But I think she probably knew. 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. What didnt I say that could have helped change one mind? I cant live with the idea of not speaking up. SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. Its yet another thing that, when policing does happen, is going to happen haphazardly and ruin lives. The Truth About Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell - TheList.com Refunds at point of purchase but were working on rescheduling. And Id sit on his porch. GROSS: Good. As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe (Rolling Stone), Live Nation Allows Artists to Require Vaccination or Proof of Negative Test Result for U.S. Concerts (Variety), This is a BETA experience. I hope youll join us. SHIRES: Theres a medication that you cant take right now after, you know, about two weeks after this happened to me. See where your favorite artists and songs rank on the Rolling Stone Charts. Since starting I So Lounging, Shires YouTube following has grown 300 percent. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. Moon, in all your splendor. SHIRES: Oh, I would have had to find somebody to drive me to Mexico or somewhere else. Trending No more? Every one of them except for me survived. And then and neither of them told us that stuff. SHIRES: We were writing that, and Brandi was like, Im going to take the first one. SHIRES: (Singing) I was a healer. GROSS: Without him asking? 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. We just couldnt get along. And I wrote Fault Lines and then I texted it to him, just like youd imagine. GROSS: Oh, thats so funny. It sounds like you were about to leave the marriage. And I said, yeah, I feel like theres not a lot happening there emotionally for me. And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. 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. And I was trying to sing that song A Little Walk With You (ph). And but I think for the players in the band, they took me seriously as a player. So Im going to ask you to play one more song from your new album, to perform it for us. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill. 'Mandalorian' star Pedro Pascal, creators on new Grogu revelations and 'Last of Us' comparisons, Saved by the bell: Contestant ordered to keep mask on, in historic 'Masked Singer' first, Chris Pine admits 'it does look' like Harry Styles spit on him but this is what actually happened, Rebel Wilson 'collapsed' after Ramona Agruma proposal: 'I was so overwhelmed', Amy Grant recalls being 'so scared' to return to touring following serious bike accident. Since publishing my op-ed, Ive heard from some folks who are in their eighties. 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. Or is this through listening to his records that you feel like youre his disciple? On forming the all-female country super-group The Highwomen. Editors picks GROSS: Your mother earlier in her life worked as a bail bondsman, right? 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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. This happened to me two and a half weeks before Texas abortion ban went into effect. If you want a boxer, Ill step in the ring for you. And then and the words are amazing and always brought me a smile. 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. Isbell took a stand, even facing backlash from his fellow artists. GROSS: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. GROSS: Oh, I wish he could have heard you do it. And if anyone asks me, Ill say whats true I dont know. SHIRES: She did. On top of that, Shires notes, the pro-life stance doesnt typically extend past birth. 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. So either you have surgery or I think you die. Its you, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris. Amanda Shires is in Serious Trouble in Hawk for the Dove Fallon Performance In the first half of the 20th century citizens from every walk of life gathered at the Ryman to enjoy the greatest preachers, entertainers, speakers and politicians of the day. But his voice is much stronger and clearer than it was in the Truckers. GROSS: Were you nervous about being on stage or just about singing? The way she relaxes into low notes on that last line makes it sound far more like an unembarrassed confession than a complaint. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win. Writing songs isnt so cut and dried, he says. 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. 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. And then I asked Chance, and Chance was like, no, those are real documents. It de-stigmatizes the conversation. I was snared by your wrist. 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. If you see my milk cow, please drive her on home cause I had no milk and butter no since my cows been gone. Lets get back to my interview with singer-songwriter and musician Amanda Shires. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Were proud to be from that area. And if you want a doctor, Ill examine every inch of you. 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. You can call it serious trouble cause thats what I want. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires perform at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. So lets hear a little bit of that song. Well be right back. A lark in the shower from the night to the morning after. Other than that, I think were all right. Amanda Shires opens her new album To the Sunset with a strikingly different scenario. SHIRES: Thank you so much. Likewise, the changes underway to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg could also mean that abortion rights will come under fire nationally. ", Shires and Isbell have a toddler daughter together, and thanks to gendered assumptions about the distribution of their parenting duties, Shires has fielded more than her share of questions about how she balances motherhood and music-making. 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