Say whatever feels better or whatever. Probably nobody enjoys it as much as I do, but its not a necessity for survival. And it took me back to the reason I came to writing and doing music in the first place, which is expression and trying to do something for me that could make me make sense, I guess. I didnt want to do more damage. Because thats not how I go into songwriting. 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. Is a chrysalis a butterfly? Her study essentially proves that when folks cant have an abortion, it affects their mental health, their economic standing, their overall well-being. I dont care if somebody wants to put a target on me. You can call it serious trouble cause thats what I want. The song is called Empty Cups.. 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. 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. But a lot of times when youre growing up and taught what how to be successful and how to be to survive in the world as a woman with a career and all this stuff and probably young many young kids are taught this. Home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943-1974, the Ryman earned the moniker \"Mother Church of Country Music\" as the genres of country and bluegrass developed on its stage and found a national audience on radio and television. I was playing a music festival, and I noticed that there was a fiddle on stage with Billy Joe. Upcoming Dates Past 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. What made you think of yourself as his disciple? I didnt start learning how to accept my voice until recently. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Celebrate Vinyl and Indie Retail as Record Store Days 2023 Ambassadors: Were Building the Embassy as We Speak. And a lot of its multilayered, the meaning take it like a man. 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Im all for freedom, but I think if youre dead, you dont have any freedoms at all, Isbell said. 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. Or did you keep the songs, like, kind of secret for a while? Just admit Im what you want. Theyre just, you know, scans of them. I believe thats when that that became not an option. As if to match it, she experimented for the first time with filtering the sound of her fiddle through effects pedals, which lends her playing a fierce luminescence. I tried so hard to make myself clear. And it also made me stronger in the fact that I could feel comfortable singing about it and talking about it. FRESH AIRs executive producer is Danny Miller. And thats when the fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube. So when you started taking lessons with Frankie McWhorter and then became part of the band, how much did you know about Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys? So what didnt you like about your voice? And then she wanted to know if it was real, so she hired a private investigator and all this. And after we recorded it, he said, Thats a really good song. And I said, Thats all you have to say. So hold on to your thoughts. What didnt I say that could have helped change one mind? I cant live with the idea of not speaking up. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. And she was like, I had no idea. I am your man. Rock & roll kids just let decisions make themselves. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? SHIRES: In 2016, I was going on the road. And I save them all. Her latest album is called Take It Like A Man. Well be right back. And I thought if Im going to get any rest, Im going to have to do something about this. I dont understand why its such a big issue, as big of an issue as it is. A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love. Shes not really a rock & roll kid, for lack of a better term. Where does that get us with our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights? 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. Our guest will be Mark Bergen, author of the new book Like, Comment, Subscribe in which he reports on how YouTube ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity of influencers and online hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars. GROSS: Good. BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) I was a Highwoman and a mother from my youth. Theres not a lot of filler, not a lot of songs I would skip through, he says. GROSS: Well, I want to play a song performed by The Highwomen, and the song is actually called The Highwomen, and its a song sung from the point of view of different women. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? Abortion Bans Are A Human Rights Crisis That Violate International Law, Groups Tell UN, Fallout As FIFA Appoints Supermodel Adriana Lima As Fan Ambassador Of Womens World Cup, SpaceX Rocket Launches Astronauts From U.S., Russia And UAE To International Space Station, Teslas Investor Day Is Long On Time, Short On Useful New Details, Biden Not Confident Supreme Court Will Uphold Student Debt Cancellation, RFK Killer Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole For 16th TimeReversing 2021 Decision, Scott Adams Undoing: A Timeline Of The Dilbert Cartoonists Fall From Grace, New Warning About Zero-Calorie Sugar Substitute: What Experts Are Saying About Erythritol, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Could Face Subpoena To Testify Before Congress, Bernie Sanders Says, Republican Sen. 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I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. But anyway so I went and I sat down in my barn of internal wandering. I just fell in love with the music, is what happened. As it turns out, it did start some conversations within our own families. SHIRES: Yep, yep on his songs without asking him. It took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi and then it took Natalie [Hemby] and Maren Morris. 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. Weve had legal abortions for 50 years and now, suddenly, a long-held right will be illegal. It was Fault Lines.. If youre just joining us, my guest is songwriter, singer and musician Amanda Shires. SHIRES: My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen. 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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 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? Where the fuck are the rest of them? SHIRES: I forced myself in that position. The timing of The Problem and the fact that its benefiting the Yellowhammer Fund are both important, as draconian, punitive abortion laws have been enacted in Alabama and neighboring states in the last year. But I am living still. 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. Live Nation also announced a vaccination requirement for employees entering events, venues or offices, which will take effect October 4. Our business and our industry is about uniting people, and vaccines are one of the greatest tools for making sure that everyone can continue to enjoy live music together, CEO Michael Rapino wrote to the companys employees. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. Its all control.. GROSS: That sounds really, really awful. Lets get back to the interview I recorded last week with singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires. GROSS: Yeah. You can say its all my fault. I could tell my milk cow I could tell by the way she lows. Tommy Duncan was the singer. Its yet another thing that, when policing does happen, is going to happen haphazardly and ruin lives. The most-watched episode was from April 8th, filmed the day after John Prine When youre trying to make a tough decision, you need a lot of support. 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. SHIRES: So I thought if I could write a song with my feelings in it, that it might bring him around to the walls that arent really walls that we put ourselves behind sometimes. Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amanda Shires and bestselling author George Saunders discuss inspiration, songwriting, and Amanda's new song, "You Don't Get to Go." And this is can I ask you to perform Fault Lines, to do an excerpt of it? SHIRES: I mean, I think theyre pretty good. Become a member of WLIW ($5 monthly or $60 annually) and get access to WLIW Passport as our thanks for your support. SHIRES: It was because Tommy Allsup was living in Snyder, Texas, at that time, and he was running the Bob Wills band. On your Twitter, you describe yourself as a disciple of Leonard Cohen. As they talked, GROSS: So this track features you, Natalie Hemby and Yola as a guest artist on it. He could still leave it dish in the sink, you know? Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. You can say I lost my grip. Im glad to hear it. Isbell took a stand, even facing backlash from his fellow artists. SHIRES: Oh, yeah. Yeah without you asking. SHIRES: Thank you so much. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. And I dont know. And I also went to Greece and hung out at his house. 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. Is there a song that youd like to do? And Bob Wills was, like, the father of Western Swing, which combined country music and jazz. And how did you figure out what you wanted your point of view to be, you know, like, who the song would be about? It made me think, You know, I bet our grandmothers are more pro-choice than everybody leads us to believe.. With artists and concert promoters nationwide forced to confront a surging spike in infections and hospitalizations attributed to the spread of the delta variant, JASON ISBELL: (Singing) What do you want to do? 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. All Rights reserved. SHIRES: Oh, yes, Mercy is my daughter. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. Cancelling shows feels awful, I know. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. Theyre just songs because everybody goes through troubles in their relationship. What does he have to lose? 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. Is that right? 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). SHIRES: She did. So its probably important to stay alive before you start questioning your liberty.. Lets start with a track from the new album. The sound of silence rings in every room. Life cant help but interfere. Refunds at point of purchase but were working on rescheduling. The subject isnt talked about enough, Shires says. AMANDA SHIRES AND JASON ISBELL: (Singing) Everythings going to be OK. Its going to be all right. And one day, we wound up in the studio, and we cut the song. Recognition has been building steadily; he won Song of the Year at the 2012 Americana Honors and Awards at the Ryman Auditorium last September for Alabama Pines. He calls his superb backing band the 400 Unit, after the psychiatric ward of a hospital near Muscle Shoals, the part of the state where he grew up. You can have as much fun. Im so glad you wrote it. Im not joking. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. I would like to think that fans can hold their role models and their favorite musicians accountable. 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. Elizaveta Porodina/Courtesy of the artist, Naming The Beast: Jason Isbell And Amanda Shires On Speaking Up In 2017. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. And I said, yeah, I feel like theres not a lot happening there emotionally for me. Shed been learning to play classical music on It was keeping me up at night. 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 GROSS: Amanda Shires, its been such a pleasure to talk with you. And because of that, I felt like we should make it something thats as safe as it can possibly be. I like to play pool, he says. A few hours later, his band is peeling the wallpaper with their customary encore cover tune. GROSS: Your mother earlier in her life worked as a bail bondsman, right? I cant see a thing from here. How are we going to police that? And this is after some kind of nebulous argument. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. I know everyone is scared of losing their rung on the ladder, but there are more important things, I think, than your fame. Im going to play fiddle and Im going to sing in. So I started just taking notes on the radio because I heard it. I think she probably knew 100%, but.. All Rights Reserved. GROSS: So how seriously were you taken by the musicians in the band? I also received responses from trolls. Because once you have a baby, theres no social programming to help. SHIRES: I dont know that well, I dont know that I was going to leave or that Jason was going to leave. SHIRES: You want to come to the play the show tomorrow night, too? They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. We want to hear it. SHIRES: Honestly, a lot of times, my thoughts come to me just in pictures. SHIRES: I didnt know I was going to work it into a song until I got to the to writing it. 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