As well as Justin Townes Earle, she hooked up with former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell and the experienced singer-songwriter-guitarist Rod Picott, with whom she co-wrote and recorded the 2008 album Sew Your Heart with Wires and who joins her and lap steel guitarist Todd Pertil on her upcoming Scottish dates.
Where does Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires live?
He and his wife, Amanda Shires—a fiddle player and singer-songwriter who also plays in his band the 400 Unit—have moved to an eight-acre spread outside Nashville, where their toddler daughter, Mercy, can pedal around on her toy John Deere tractor.
Are Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell still married?
Amanda Shires is a violinist and folk singer/songwriter from Lubbock, Texas. One of Shires' friends told her that Isbell was famous. To mock him, she made him autograph a Polaroid picture of them, which they still have today. The couple has been married for almost as long as Isbell has been sober, about 10 years.
Did Amanda Shires date Neal Casal?
Peter's Autograph.” The song addresses his artist-wife Amanda Shires' (The Highwomen) relationship with guitarist Neal Casal, and her subsequent grieving following his unexpected suicide in 2019.
What happened to Amanda Shires?
Shires has released six solo albums, her most recent To the Sunset on the Silver Knife label in 2018. In 2019, she founded a country music supergroup called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby.