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. Her latest single “Empty Cups,” a piano ballad featuring her Highwomen collaborator Maren Morris on harmony vocals, is perhaps her …
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Just days after the Highwomen played their first full show at the Newport Folk Festival late last month, the country supergroup of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires were guests on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, where they performed a commanding rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s Seventies classic, …
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Jason Isbell has announced ShoalsFest, his first-ever music festival in his hometown of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Slated for October 5th, the one-day festival will feature main stage sets from Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow and Amanda Shires, in addition to a slew of yet-to-be announced …
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