They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. Why didnt more people show up and speak up? SHIRES: On August 9, yes, I was in Texas at Austin City Limits. BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) I was a Highwoman and a mother from my youth. Members get extended access to PBS video on demand and more. Not saying something is not helping. He still cant seem to notice when the dishwashers unloaded and all the dishes are put away. SHIRES: Well, that was that parts a secret, Terry. The most-watched episode was from April 8th, filmed the day after John Prine When we overturn Roe, we risk going back to, Oh, now same-sex marriages cant happen. 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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. And it was a picture of hands holding on to nothing. Some people are upset at the way iPhones charge. Demographer Diana Greene Foster conducted a 10-year study tracking both people who had abortions and people who were denied abortions. How did you manage to do that? Shes also one of the founders of the group The Highwomen. I got up to sing, and I was like, oh, crap. And Id sit on his porch. Theres a lot of things you do with your hands, but it struck me the most is matching the feeling of desperation or even begging. I think thats what people keep forgetting. In "Leave It Alone," a song introduced by a brittle, programmed loop and a jangly, arpeggiated guitar figure, she elegantly describes exploring a new lover's body: "Hands find the places where they've never been, to know for themselves new surfaces / And mine, they've got a mind of their own / I can't leave it alone." Well definitely get to your verse, which is the second one. However, Rapinos memo notes that Live Nation and artists can only make vaccines a requirement where permitted by law. Artists performing at government-operated venues in states where lawmakers have prohibited vaccine mandates will be prohibited from enforcing such measures. Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid, the Alabama-born artist tweeted Tuesday. Or is this through listening to his records that you feel like youre his disciple? It seems like a simple thing to say, but its really true. That way, there could be a more kind of a wider effort to try and have the conversation with folks and realize that youre not alone. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. And I was like, thats what I want to do, because you play this song. There were probably 2,500 people, and Im just standing there with a guitar, elevated and facing everyone. And I said, yes, Id love to. And I really liked it. Do you think you would have been able to have the surgery if abortion had already been banned in Texas? SHIRES: I feel like its a little nasally, and I wish it was, like, a little bit lower. Do you think God still sees me, coming out of this twilight sleep? she asks, before the band carries the song out with a powerful extended coda. And he said, well, you can always put it on there and just choose not to answer questions about it and, you know or you can he was pushing for me to leave Fault Lines on there because it is a good song, as he said. I know the cost of flight is landing. My daughter was about a year old, and I was getting into my touring van because I hadnt worked my way into a bus yet. And I dont know how I feel about that. I am Terry Gross. I was lucky. GROSS: Was this your mothers father or your fathers father? Because thats not how I go into songwriting. When I wrote my first piece for Rolling Stone, Id had an abortion before. How did you come up with the image of my hands are two empty cups? I know I can take it like a man. 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. 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. But this part of my life in our marriage was difficult. I own one of his guitars and. When I would write the songs, I dont know whats going to come out, but sometimes I was just so down that the only way I could get better was to take it out on writing a song., Shires sings and plays fiddle throughout this interview. Thats the trick.. But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? The subject isnt talked about enough, Shires says. GROSS: With the Texas Playboys when youre performing with them or something that you learned from one of your teachers but that really made you fall in love with the style and that epitomizes what that style is. The majority of people are in favor of womens reproductive rights and health; its others were trying to get to. And why did you want to work it into a song? And I was thinking about how much the stories matter. GROSS: Amanda Shires, how did you decide you wanted to write a song about abortion? When Roe is overturned, some healthcare workers may feel afraid to help people. GROSS: Well, in 2020, you and your husband, Jason Isbell, recorded a duet of a song you wrote called The Problem. And the song is from the perspective of a teenage couple. 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. And I had been internally bleeding for a whole lot of hours. SHIRES: She did. So one of the things you learned, like, I think in the past few years is that your grandfather had spent years in prison. And if you want a doctor, Ill examine every inch of you. Also, during this time when I was leaving, I was thinking about how [my daughter] Mercy picked up a kazoo and she could play a kazoo. GROSS: Oh, thats great. Are they just going to sit around and drink beer? Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, well talk about the power, promise and potential harm of YouTube. Amanda Shires. Which would I rather have? SHIRES: Oh, I would have had to find somebody to drive me to Mexico or somewhere else. Its a great song, so I thought wed play some of it. Its all control.. Its no fun but well be alright.. Having recently moved to Nashville with Shires whose own fourth solo album, Down Fell the Doves, comes out next week the newlyweds will sequester themselves in different corners of the house to write new songs, then play them for each other. GROSS: Oh, I wish he could have heard you do it. Amanda Shires is a singing, songwriting. Like, dont cry; dont show your emotions; be stoic; be strong; everything else is weakness. The next year, she won a Grammy for best americana album as part of her husbands group, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. And so I just had to get emergency surgery to remove the tube and clean the blood from inside of my body. And she was like, I had no idea. 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. Her new album is called Take It Like A Man.. Then Im like, This is coming out now., Jason Isbell on the Art of the Livestream, Supporting Indie Record Stores, and That Feral Hogs Meme, Devon Gilfillian to Cover Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' With Jason Isbell, Grace Potter, Jason Isbell Blasts Van Morrison, Covers 'Into the Mystic'. Wherever you get that support whether in a relationship or friends no matter what you believe, you can believe to support somebody through something hard.. People dont have to come to a concert, Isbell said. It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment, strange as the blue up above. Its not competition, Isbell makes clear with a chuckle. And then and neither of them told us that stuff. And even on the charts, theres one spot usually I think in 2016, there was 13% representation of women to men on country radio, and now it still sits pleasantly at 16% on a good week. In 2020, The Highwomen won album of the year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. 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. But theres a medication you can take that aborts the fertilized egg from your fallopian tube. On forming the all-female country super-group The Highwomen. The song is named "Parking Lot Pirouette" for its protagonist's graceful forwardness, her decisive movement to prolong a pleasurable dalliance. I cried, I asked and I balled. 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