Amanda Shires, Take It Like a Man, 2022 on ATO Records

Eighth solo LP from Amanda Shires, recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville. I’m cautious not to read any songwriter too literally or autobiographically, but it is hard not to (now) read this as foreshadowing her divorce from Jason Isbell, making it part of a group of records about the dissolution of their marriage.

Guests include fellow Highwomen Natalie Hemby and Maren Morris, Isbell, producer Lawrence Rothman, Jimbo Hart (of the 400 Unit), and Fred Eltringham.

My copy—from a Barnes & Noble—is the “B&N Exclusive” on seaglass vinyl, with a fold-out lyrics sheet/poster.

Amanda Shires at the Grammy Museum on November 10th, 2025, by Don Adkins. #amandashires @amandashires

https://slrmagazine.com/2025/11/12/amanda-shires-at-the-grammy-museum-on-november-10th-2025-by-don-adkins/

Watching Isbell's 2017 Tiny Desk and making myself all sad again that he and Shires split up. The way she looks at him when he plays. I guess it's parasocial projection, but if a love like that can't survive, jesus, what hope does anybody have?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djUh1eHdepE

#JasonIsbell #AmandaShires #TinyDesk

Amanda Shires Says the Highwomen Are Reuniting to Work on New Songs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/highwomen-new-music-amanda-shires-interview-1235437065/

Amanda Shires on Becoming ‘Nobody’s Girl’ With an Album That Straddles ‘Divorce Record’ and Reclamation Journal: ‘I Kept Telling Myself I Was Healed, When I Wasn’t Yet’
#Variety #News #AmandaShires #JasonIsbell #JasonIsbellRunningWithOurEyesClosed #LawrenceRothman

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/amanda-shires-interview-nobodys-girl-album-1236533631/

Amanda Shires Dishes on Divorce on New Song ‘The Details’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/amanda-shires-divorce-song-the-details-1235435661/

Album review: Amanda Shires continues her flight into the mainstream on "Nobody’s Girl" #AmandaShires

https://americana-uk.com/amanda-shires-nobodys-girl

Amanda Shires, Brittany Spencer, More to Headline Nashville Showcase for She Is the Music, FEMco and Anzie Blue
#Variety #News #AmandaShires #SheIstheMusic

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/amanda-shires-brittany-spencer-nashville-showcase-1236480585/

Amanda Shires Will Break Post-Split Silence With ‘Nobody’s Girl’ Album; First Single, ‘A Way It Goes,’ Focuses on ‘What’s Beautiful About Going Through Hard Things’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2025/music/news/amanda-shires-nobodys-girl-album-a-way-it-goes-1236460399/