Having recently performed at the C2C Country2Country Festival in London, singer-songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires has announced a UK/European tour in June. The tour will also include performances at Black Deer Festival and Azkena Rock in Spain. You can watch Shires performing ‘Hawk Like a Dove’ on Jimmy Fallon and also her official ‘Take it Like a Man’ live session below. Here are all the dates:
Amanda Shires joins Bobbie Nelson and her brother Willie on Gershwin’s classic ‘Summertime’. The video was shot as Nelson and Shires recorded the song at Arlyn Studios in Austin Texas before Bobbie’s passing in 2022. A long-standing member of Willie’s band , Bobbie’s distinctive piano has been a large part of…
RS Country are running a nice little (not so little actually) interview today with Americana royalty (in a Republican way) (that's Republican in the UK sense) (why did I start this?) Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires who talk to them about their new albums, how they both met and speaking out…
And you can have a listen. Rolling Stone Country reports: "One year after popping up in the end credits of British documentary The Fear of 13, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires' "The Color of a Cloudy Day" is receiving a proper release. The song joins Amazon's ever-growing "Amazon Acoustics" playlist…
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