Amanda Shires says the Highwomen will ride again. According to the Americana singer-songwriter, the all-star group will reconvene in the coming months to being working on new songs. Shires was a founding member of the band along with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby. Members of the group also …
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On her new album Nobody’s Girl, out now, Amanda Shires writes in candid detail about her marriage and divorce, never more so than in the song “The Details.” It’s an elegiac ballad with brooding strings and piano, and devastating lyrics. “You erased the details in our history,” she sings in …
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Amanda Shires arrived a little late for her interview with Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast: The Americana singer-songwriter got pulled over by the police. When she couldn’t find her registration, Shires began rooting through her glove compartment with the officer as the contents of her life spilled out. “I got …
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Four months after news broke that she and Jason Isbell were divorcing, Amanda Shires opened a pair of concerts for Isbell in Colorado. The singer-songwriter, who addresses the end of her marriage and the reclamation of her independence on her new album, Nobody’s Girl, says she played the gigs simply …
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After a long couple of years, Amanda Shires is ready to reemerge. Her grandmother and, more recently, her father, died. There have been moments of crying at the gym (“like the Taylor Swift song,” Shires says), and moments of feeling so numb she could no longer feel her body. There’s …
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Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have finalized their divorce, officially ending their marriage after nearly 11 years together. Earlier this month, Isbell — who initiated the divorce in December 2023 — ruminated on new romance and a former marriage on his new album, Foxes in the Snow. On one song, …
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Jason Isbell released his new solo album, Foxes in the Snow, on Friday, a record that finds the Americana songwriter jettisoning his band, the 400 Unit, for just his voice and acoustic guitar. It’s a vulnerable record, full of candid, diaristic lyrics that nod to a new romance and a …
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