Amanda Shires' new album 'Take It Like a Man' brought the award-winning artist back to making music. "I was working around some people that I shouldn't have...because it made me feel small," she says ...

The Amanda Shires show at the HIFI last Friday was a study in contrasts. The sold-out crowd was exactly as you’d expect. The women looked like they were either coming from a feminist book reading or ...

Amanda Shires says the Highwomen will ride again. According to the Americana singer-songwriter, the all-star group will reconvene in the coming months to being working on new songs. Shires was a ...

One of the true originals in modern roots music, Amanda Shires has been added to the Treeline Music Fest lineup. Shires will be there opening night, Sept. 29, to play the MU Health Care Stage, ...

The Shires have premiered their new music video exclusively on Digital Spy. The British duo will release 'Friday Night' on February 23 as the latest cut to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album ...

The post 10 Albums by Powerhouse Songwriters That Amanda Shires Thinks Every Music Fan Should Own appeared first on Consequence. From her earliest violin lessons, Amanda Shires began mapping out her ...

They’re hoping their upbeat close harmonies and stomp-along tunes will do for the UK country scene what Mumford & Sons did for folk music. The Shires – Crissie Rhodes and Ben Earle, both 25 – have ...

Amanda Shires and Bobbie Nelson united for the duets album "Loving You." When Nelson plays, Shires said, "she doesn’t let any periphery stuff get in her way. It’s like a sacred meditation." ...

Amanda Shires was 10 when she first saw the worn violin that would change her life. “I was in a pawn shop with my dad, and I saw it. I’d like to think there was some sort of angelic light beaming off ...

Amanda Shires isn’t afraid to talk about difficult things in her music. In her honeyed, high voice that feels like it was touched by whatever magic wand gave Dolly Parton her pipes, Shires sings with ...

Every year the album seems to decline in the eyes of music consumers, who veer toward smaller samples of an artist’s work, or even limit themselves to streaming single songs. But the album is still ...

Spotting a Subaru parked on the street in front of her mother’s house in a new Franklin, Tenn., subdivision, Amanda Shires couldn’t resist referencing the car’s Consumer Reports rating. She reads the ...