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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

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

4.67.7K 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. A year into marriage, they're discovering sobriety and success come with new challenges.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Anna.

0:02.3

And yesterday's new episode, I checked in with musician Jason Isbell about being in recovery

0:07.3

during this time of global pandemic and about how it's affecting him and his fellow musicians

0:12.4

financially.

0:13.4

Today, we wanted to share with you the very first conversation that I ever had with

0:18.0

Jason, along with his wife Amanda Shires, who's also a musician.

0:22.6

I talked with them way back in 2014.

0:25.7

For this show, I had even officially launched.

0:28.2

And it's a conversation that I often think back on fondly.

0:31.4

I hope you enjoy it.

0:33.8

I had to go through a series of trials, Herculean trials, before she would actually say that

0:39.1

we were, you know, that I was her boyfriend.

0:41.4

It's when, like, we were playing the field, it was just like, she just didn't know she

0:45.4

could trust me.

0:46.4

It's hard to trust somebody who's out crowds and every night, you know, even though he

0:50.4

left awesome voice mails.

0:56.1

This is...

0:57.1

...Sex and money.

0:58.7

My relationship with death remains the same, strongly against it.

1:03.2

It's the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot...

1:06.6

Do you think the sexual revolution has gone too far?

1:09.9

And need to talk about more.

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