Amanda Shires arrived a little late for her interview with Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast: The Americana singer-songwriter got pulled over by the police. When she couldn’t find her registration, Shires began rooting through her glove compartment with the officer as the contents of her life spilled out.
“I got in my car, blaring some Waylon Jennings,” Shires says on Nashville Now, “and I was driving down the road and a policeman pulled me over. He said, ‘Do you know why I’m pulling you over?’ I said, ‘It could be a lot of reasons.’”
According to Shires, the officer informed her that her tags were expired and asked for her registration. The only problem was, she couldn’t find it: “So, I opened the glovebox and all my stuff fell out,” she says.
Among the items: a tuner, tampons, lint rollers, assorted papers, snacks, and an extra swimsuit and pair of underwear. “You don’t know when you’re going to shit yourself on accident,” Shires says.
In the end, Shires wasn’t cited, but she did receive a police escort nearly all the way to the Nashville Now cabin studio. “I thought for sure this is not the way I’m going to jail,” Shires quips.
The Nashville singer-songwriter drops her new album Nobody’s Girl on Friday. It’s a vulnerable, often candid processing of her divorce from Jason Isbell, her husband of 10 years. Watch Shires’ complete Nashville Now interview below.
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