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AMANDA SHIRES – ” Harmless “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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If you haven’t listened to Amanda Shires My Piece Of Land in a while, it’s worth a revisit. “Shires traces the heart’s nearly imperceptible shifts,“Harmless” is particularly devastating in its self-revelation, a chance encounter in a bar that questions her emotional infidelity. “Everything’s a sign if you want it to be,” she sings with a nervous trill over trembling tremolo guitar. “And you want it to be.”

Joshua Britt and Nelson Hubbard from Neighborhood’s take “Harmless” out of the bar and out to Loch Ness, so a dive tryst turns into an unexpected love story with a lake monster in a beautifully animated video.

“We actually built parts of each scene and composited many different types of things together,” Britt  says “We made about ten different aluminum foil versions of the monster to cover all the angles and perspectives — lots of compositing, hand-made together with computer-made and putting everything into motion. We wanted to get the water right so sometimes it is paper, some of it is slow motion video we shot during a full moon or rain, lots of it is stuff we shot underwater. It’s just a giant mix… anything we loved we put in. “My Piece Of Land” is out now.

AMANDA SHIRES – ” My Piece Of Land “

Posted: December 2, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Amanda Shires: <i>My Piece of Land</i> Review

Amanda Shires – My Pieces Of Land CD/LP+MP3 (BMG Rights Management)
My Piece Of Land is Amanda’s third record and follows up 2013′s Down Fell The Doves and was primarily written while pregnant with her and husband Jason Isbell’s first child. “Shires is a virtuoso, and anyone who’s seen her front her own band or play in Isbell’s knows she can cultivate musical drama.

One of Amanda Shires’ best assets as a songwriter is the vivid way she has with off-kilter imagery. It’s a lure into her songs that has worked to excellent effect on “When You Need a Train It Never Comes,” from her 2010 album Carrying Lightning, or “Bulletproof” on the 2013 follow-up, Down Fell the Doves.

A few tracks on My Piece Of Land (which was produced by Dave Cobb, who loves nuance and rocking out in equal measure) build to big climaxes: ‘My Love – The Storm’ is the classic Garth Brooks-style stomper its title implies, while ‘You Are My Home’ builds to a grand finale that recalls the mid-1970s sound of Warren Zevon. ” Many of these tunes contain an undercurrent of disquiet, though it’s never less than artfully expressed. Her unease is especially conspicuous on “Slippin,” as she imagines a lover out on the town giving in to temptations that spell their end: “Tonight could be the night you go slippin’ away,” she sings, her voice subdued over a mix of acoustic guitars. There’s a subtler regret on opener “The Way It Dimmed,” a lean country number with jaunty electric guitar licks snaking around her vocals as she uses the past-tense to describe passion she (or her narrator) wants and can’t help but pull away from. A road trip goes wrong on the cinematic “Pale Fire,” which features a beautifully mournful fiddle line after the refrain (and harmony vocals from Jason Isbell, Shires’ husband, who also plays guitar on the album); and she blurs boundaries on the spare “Harmless”—“It might have been cheating/ Where exactly is the line?” she murmurs—just to see how far she can go.

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Amanda Shires can command a spotlight. But My Piece Of Land really shines in subtle gradations, in the natural environment where the voice warbles and catches, and the mind adjusts, opens up and leans toward love.”

JASON ISBELL and AMANDA SHIRES – ” The Colour Of A Cloudy Day “

Posted: September 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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Jason Isbell and wife Amanda Shires have released an acoustic duet titled “The Color of a Cloudy Day” for Amazon’s Amazon Acoustic playlists, which features exclusive songs written by some of today’s top songwriters. The song is a rare collaboration between the pair, who frequently join each other on stage but almost never co-write.

“Usually we only help each other edit songs that we write individually,” Isbell said. “This song deals with crime and punishment. The protagonist isn’t exactly innocent, but he isn’t guilty of the crime for which he’s being punished.”

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JASON ISBELL and AMANDA SHIRES – ” Sea Songs ” EP

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jason Isbell and his wife and fellow musician Amanda Shires have released a digital-only two-song EP called Sea Songs. Featuring covers of Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers” and Warren Zevon’s “Mutineer,” the EP is stripped down and intimate, the pair’s knack for vocal harmonies underscored by Isbell’s guitar and Shires’s fiddle.

While Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires gear up for a March recording session with producer Dave Cobb whose Nashville studio has helped spawn some of the decade’s best roots albums, including Isbell’s “Southeastern“ this Americana power couple is tossing a bone to fans who’ve waited nearly two years for follow-ups to “Southeastern” and Shires’ last solo effort, “Down Fell the Doves“. This week, they’re releasing a digital EP, “Sea Songs”, whose two tracks splash the duo’s harmonies against a backdrop of acoustic guitar, fiddle and maritime themes.

Sparse and lovely, “Sea Songs” has a lot in common with the pair’s cover of “Born in the U.S.A.,” a highlight from last year’s Bruce Springsteen tribute album “Dead Man’s Town”. This time, Isbell and Shires are putting their sonic stamp on Lykke Li‘s “I Follow Rivers” and Warren Zevon‘s “Mutineer,” stripping the songs free of nearly everything — including Li’s computerized bleeps and bloops, and Zevon’s swooning synths — but the melodies and chord progressions.

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Recently, Isbell announced a run of tour dates with the 400 Unit in April and May, presumably after wrapping up his fourth solo album with Cobb.

JASON ISBELL – ” Cover Me Up “

Posted: November 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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Southeastern, the recording that helped Jason Isbell to a near-sweep at this year’s Americana Awards and Festival — he took home prizes for best album,best song and artist of the year,it was a team effort. Isbell, who learned his craft as a member of Drive-By Truckers and also leads the mighty rock band the 400 Unit, credited the producer Dave Cobb with helping him develop Southeastern’s intimate sound; as for its emotionally complex and forthright content, that came through the support of his wife and frequent musical collaborator, Amanda Shires. He credited Shires for giving him the courage to write open-hearted songs like Song Of The Year “Cover Me Up,” which they performed together that night in a version that was as tender as can be. Enjoy this lovely musical exchange.
A singer/guitarist now based in Nashville, Isbell scored Album of the Year for his profound 2013 post-rehab LP “Southeastern,” Song of the Year for the ballad “Cover Me Up” and also scored Artist of the year Award honors. Isbell also performed “Cover Me Up” live with wife and fiddle player Amanda Shires at the ceremony held Sept. 17 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, where Williams, known for such hits as “Hey Good Lookin’,” “Move It On Over,” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” once performed on the Grand Ole Opry.

“I wrote this song for my wife,” Isbell said of “Cover Me Up,” “I’ve had a lot of people ask me to dedicate it to their wives, girlfriends or cousin’s wife or something strange like that. This was probably the hardest song I ever had to write because I wrote it for her and then I played it for her. It was very difficult. Do the things that scare you. That’s the good stuff.”

JASON ISBELL and AMANDA SHIRES – ” Born In The USA ” Springsteen Cover

Posted: July 7, 2014 in MUSIC
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Jason Isbell with partner Amanda Shires cover a Bruce Springsteen song for a forthcoming covers album the striking part of this song is Amanda Shires Fiddle parts,

RACHEL RIES – ” Time “

Posted: May 21, 2014 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUES
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its nice when friends pass on the music links they think you need to hear, not heard of Rachel before she is from the large state of South Dakota what a pure clear vocal, Compassionate songs  thier is a small tour supporting the excellent Amanda Shires and a new album out now titled “The Ghost of a Gardener”  show at the Maze in Nottingham

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