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

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2014

⏱️ 30 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

I had to go through a series of trials, Herculian trials, before she would actually say that I was her boyfriend.

0:07.8

It wouldn't like we were playing the field. It was just like she just didn't know she could trust me.

0:12.5

It's hard to trust somebody who's out carousing every night, you know, even though he left awesome voicemails.

0:19.9

This is

0:20.9

death, sex, and money.

0:23.1

My relationship with death remains the same,

0:26.1

strongly against it.

0:27.4

It's the show from WNYC

0:29.1

about the things we think about a lot.

0:30.9

Do you think the sexual revolution

0:32.5

has gone too far?

0:33.9

And need to talk about more.

0:35.5

I want my money!

0:37.4

I'm my money.

0:38.3

I'm Anasale.

0:45.3

Jason Isbel and Amanda Shires have been married for about a year.

0:47.4

He's been sober for two.

0:48.9

Jason's a musician.

0:57.0

He got his start with the Southern rock band Drive-by Truckers after playing in bars as a teenager while he was growing up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

1:06.1

Amanda's a musician, too. She writes and sings, and by the time she was 15, she was already playing with a band called The Texas Playboys.

1:15.3

Jason and Amanda both put out solo albums last year, and Jason's album, called Southeastern, hit it really big.

1:21.9

A lot of his songs deal with his addiction and getting sober, and how their love helped him through it.

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