Amanda Shires
Manship Theatre 100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
Amanda Shires began her career as a teenager playing fiddle with the Texas Playboys. Since then, she's toured and recorded with the likes of John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver, Todd Snider, Justin Townes Earle, Shovels & Rope, and most recently, her husband Jason Isbell. Along the way, she's made three solo albums, each serving to document a particular period in her life while improving on the perceptive qualities of the previous record. See her live at the Manship Theatre this Monday at 7:30 pm. $28. manshiptheatre.org.