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 founding member of the band along with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby. Members of the group also performed as the Highwomen with guests like Brittney Spencer, Yola, and Sheryl Crow.
During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, Shires talked about the collective’s plans, saying that Morris first teased a reunion during a performance at the Gorge in Washington state.
“Me and Brandi and Maren and Brittney have talked about writing this winter,” Shires says. “All signs point to ‘yes,’ if I was the Magic 8-Ball.”
The core members of the Highwomen have recently released or will soon drop new solo albums: Carlile will issue Returning to Myself on Oct. 24, Morris released Dreamsicle in May, and Shires just unveiled Nobody’s Girl last week. It’s a vulnerable, often candid look at the dissolution of her marriage to songwriter Jason Isbell and how she picked up the pieces to move on.
“I signed up for forever, but forever’s just as long as you live, I guess,” Shires told Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, talking at length about not only the personal loss of her divorce, but the professional one too: Shires regularly performed with her ex-husband. “Going from a partner in that side, too, it was a wild feeling. And just the fallout of that.”
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