Amanda Shires: ‘I guess this is lofty, but I like to push it forward’

Amanda Shires' most recent releases include the solo album "Take It Like A Man" and the summer 2023 release "Loving You," an album celebrating Bobbie Nelson.Amanda Shires returns to Mobile with a lot of music to share: Not just tracks from her acclaimed 2022 solo album “Take It Like a Man” and her 2019 album with the all-woman supergroup The Highwomen, but also from “Loving You,” an album designed to showcase and honor one of her guiding lights, Bobbie Nelson.

And then I titled the record “Take It Like a Man,” and only recently discovered that I actually can’t take it like a man because I am a person that tells my feelings all the time. And as much as I try to shake it off or whatever, it’s always just, like, I have a hard time keeping things inside, which is kind of ironic now that I think about it.

Going back to the original question: When you have an album that’s so of a piece and you go into a show and you’ve got multiple things you probably want to pack in and there are people out there who want to hear different things. How do you choose from this album in particular? I’m curious about what songs from “Take It Like A Man” have become fan favorites and performance favorites.

There’s this phenomenon in pop songwriting, and I see it more in pop country, and I think of it as bumper sticker writing: You hear the title of a song and from that you already know basically the whole premise of the song. You have a real knack for putting a twist on things, or pulling a title out of the song that’s maybe different than the obvious choice. For example, I don’t think anybody’s going to read “Take It Like A Man” and guess where you’re going with that.

“Loving You” obviously is a very different album – recorded with Willie Nelson’s sister, the late Bobbie Nelson, it’s not just a tribute to her, it’s one she was able to take part in. Does it fit into this run of shows at all?

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