Were proud to be from that area. GROSS: Oh, yeah. 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. I know I can take it like a man. Cancelling shows feels awful, I know. If you want a driver, climb inside or only want to take me for a ride, you know you can. But if you dont, youre going to be wondering, What didnt I do? You can call me serious trouble. I would like to challenge other folks who have platforms to actually use them. This is FRESH AIR. If you want a partner, take my hand or only you want to strike me down in anger, here I stand. When it came down to it, when I finally got it done and recorded, Amy Coney Barrett had gotten sworn in. And usually that works. 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. GROSS: Well, would you play Take It Like A Man for us? Here was my life five years ago, and heres my life now. This fight is about more than just abortion. It is not trapped in your throat. Im Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. And I was like, thats what I want to do, because you play this song. "Last night you walked me to my car / You said, 'You won't be getting far before you turn around,'" she sings, her phrasing seesawing and scampering. I could just trust based on how Leonard Cohen did all that work for us. I tried so hard to make myself clear. Shires plays fiddle in her husband Jason Isbells band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. And she was also holding down a day job as a single mom. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. SHIRES: Thats all you have to say? I had to spend the night with her at work. So thanks to them as well. Trending Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web. It rings out like its supposed to. Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat, shook and quivering. I would have died had this procedure not been available to me. Thank you for performing for us. Thats the trick.. And I was like, my granddad was in Alcatraz? The way she relaxes into low notes on that last line makes it sound far more like an unembarrassed confession than a complaint. Upcoming Dates Past I didnt want to do more damage. The Problem wraps up by driving home the weight of the decision for her character. Boosted and very grateful for it., When a fan asked how his wife Amanda Shires and their daughter are feeling, Isbell answered, Mercy is negative with no symptoms and Amanda didnt come with me on this run, shes negative at home. A few hours later, his band is peeling the wallpaper with their customary encore cover tune. I am your man. Thats abundantly clear on his breakout new album, Southeastern, one of the years best in any genre. So to give listeners a sense of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, listeners who dont know who they are, this is a classic 1940 recording of New San Antonio Rose., (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, NEW SAN ANTONIO ROSE), BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: (Singing) Deep within my heart lies a melody, a song of old San Antone (ph) San Antone where in dreams I live with a memory beneath the stars, all alone. Since writing that op-ed, I have had reproductive healthcare that some might call an abortion when I was hospitalized in Texas on August 9, 2021, with a ruptured fallopian tube caused by an ectopic pregnancy. And you got your start professionally at age 15 playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys. 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. And but I think for the players in the band, they took me seriously as a player. I know what the cost is in the octaves of consequence. SHIRES: Yeah. And here it sits. SHIRES: My whole left arm is tattoos of Leonard Cohen. "I did a parking lot pirouette / I said, 'You're right I'm not done with you yet.'" And Milk Cow Blues goes like this. He asserted that the band would cancel the concert if any venue refused to agree to their requirements. And she was like, I had no idea. To keep the newness from wearing off, for every start theres gonna be a stop. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. Amanda Shires has become a coveted presence at the intersection of nervy artistry and activism, folk and country acclaim, rock attitude and Nashville influence. Oh, I could have crowed. So what didnt you like about your voice? Roberta Shorrock directs the show. Where are our Nashville folks? GROSS: So one of the ways you ended up becoming a songwriter as well as a singer and musician was that Billy Joe Shaver heard you play. And I know that Jasons platform is bigger than mine. Shires wrote the song a few years ago and originally imagined it as a conversation between several women, but revamped it to feature her collaborator and husband. Amanda Shires was named emerging artist of the year at the 2017 Americana Music and Honors Awards Ceremony. GROSS: Whoa. Well definitely get to your verse, which is the second one. 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. Then I get to the end of the recording process and try to decide what makes the best collection of songs. The majority of people are in favor of womens reproductive rights and health; its others were trying to get to. Well be right back. This has been the hardest year. I like to play pool, he says. Do you have you do a great version of Im Your Man, his song, Im Your Man, on YouTube. And I dont know how I feel about that. SHIRES: Theres a medication that you cant take right now after, you know, about two weeks after this happened to me. Since publishing my op-ed, Ive heard from some folks who are in their eighties. Here's why. Jason Isbell and his wife, Amanda Shires, were walking around last weekend in Newport, Rhode Island, where they played the Newport Folk Festival. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. And any policing will disproportionately affect people of color, low-income folks and other marginalized groups. SHIRES: (Singing) If you want a lover, Ill do anything you ask me to. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? But I think she probably knew. She has performed as a member of the Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys, and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, as well as in a duo with Rod Picott. Yeah, I can do an excerpt. SHIRES: Yes. And I know I can take it like a man. SHIRES: On August 9, yes, I was in Texas at Austin City Limits. On August 9, 2021 my fallopian tube ruptured. Youve been very outspoken about the right to have an abortion. During the #MeToo moment, much emphasis has been rightly placed on the need for women to guard themselves against the unrestrained appetites of male perpetrators. In a new interview, Shires who returns with her latest album Take It Like a Man in July goes deeper into her own experiences and calls on artists, especially those in Nashville, to start using the platforms theyve been given. That last talk left me a makeup rainbow of tears, turned everything blurry. GROSS: Well, thank you for doing that. Recently, I had an ectopic pregnancy, she tweeted. Her new album is called Take It Like A Man.. Where the fuck are the rest of them? FRESH AIRs executive producer is Danny Miller. You know, its Jimmy Webbs song originally, but. He has since learned to tell the story of his recovery. Im not a big AA guy, but Ill go every once in a while. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. But for me, I was just happy to be up there playing music I loved. Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. Why werent you accepting it? So since they are personal songs, you had to decide to say that. Essentially, shes just a good person. Were you just, like, the cute kid who could play but, you know that audiences would go wild over because you were a girl in the band and there wasnt much of that? In my case, I blame the education system, but I didnt even know what an ectopic pregnancy was. 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. So lets do that. Not saying something is not helping. Bergen is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Im Terry Gross. I mean, is it fatal for a woman if nothing is done? 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. I am Terry Gross. I was lucky. In 2020, she penned an op-ed for Rolling Stone about why abortion rights matter. It took me a minute to really learn how to improvise, Shires says of those early years. "Isn't it just like a daughter to make a fool of you? And we had a TV that wed watch, you know, Saturday Night Live on Saturdays. But this part of my life in our marriage was difficult. GROSS: So that was Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys from 1940, their song, New San Antonio Rose, with Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar. Ive listened to all of his records. These really arent personal. (In "Wasn't I Paying Attention," a tale of dramatically staged, small-town suicide, for example, the way she sings the word "attention" amplifies the narrator's unsettled state.) And one day we wound up in the studio and we cut the song. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1lq9aEQTour the Ryman: http://bit.ly/tourtherymanVisit the Ryman Calendar: http://bit.ly/rymanconcertsAbout the Ryman Auditorium:Established in 1982 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed for the visionary who constructed it, Captain Tom G. Ryman, the Ryman Auditorium is a National Historic Landmark and cultural epicenter of Nashville, TN. credit: John Shearer. And I was reading mine. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. And it was a Carrie Underwood song from it was, like, six years before that or something. So did you ever visit her at work? , when I finally got it done and recorded, Amy Coney had! 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