Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jason Isbell was a restless guitarist. Amanda Shires was a fiddler who turned his life around. In 2014, they were a year into marriage, and discovering that sobriety and success come with new challenges. Want more? Here are a few other conversations from our archive featuring Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires: Live from the Internet: Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires & You: The couple took listener calls along with Anna about relationships, faith and music. Jason Isbell & Will Welch: Somebody Needs Me: Jason guest hosts Death, Sex & Money, and talks with his best friend and GQ Editor in Chief Will Welch about sobriety and mental health. What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine: Jason talks with Anna from his home in Nashville during the COVID-19 pandemic, about how coming on and off of tours has helped prepare him for sobriety in quarantine, and about the music he and Amanda are listening to right now. And if you're looking for our Jason Isbell-inspired quarantine Spotify playlist, here it is. Subscribe to our newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. And consider becoming a sustaining member of Death, Sex & Money by donating here: deathsexmoney.org/donate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Anna.
0:02.2	In yesterday's new episode, I checked in with musician Jason Isbell, about being in recovery during this time of global pandemic and about how it's affecting him and his fellow musicians financially.
0:13.6	Today, we wanted to share with you the very first conversation that I ever had with Jason, along with his wife, Amanda Shires, who's also a musician.
0:22.6	I talked with them way back in 2014, before this show had even officially launched, and it's a
0:28.4	conversation that I often think back on fondly. I hope you enjoy it.
0:33.5	I had to go through a series of trials, Hercule trials, before she would actually say that I was her boyfriend.
0:41.6	It wasn't like we were playing the field. It was just like she just didn't know she could trust me.
0:45.9	It's hard to trust somebody who's out carousin every night, you know, even though he left awesome voicemails.
0:55.7	This is death, sex, and money.
0:58.6	My relationship with death remains the same, strongly against it.
1:03.1	It's the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
1:06.5	Do you think the sexual revolution has gone too far?
1:09.7	And need to talk about more.
1:11.3	I want my money.
1:13.1	I'm Anna Sale.
1:16.1	Jason Isbel and Amanda Shires have been married for about a year.
1:20.0	He's been sober for two.
1:22.5	Jason's a musician.
1:24.0	He got his start with the Southern rock band Drive-Bide Truckers after playing in bars as a teenager while he was growing up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
1:32.8	Amanda's a musician, too.
1:34.4	She writes and sings, and by the time she was 15,
1:37.6	she was already playing with a band called The Texas Playboys.
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