Do you remember the ’90s? They were beautiful. Like something from French Laundry, a beautiful, amazing thing. If I was comparing this record to dessert, it’s the one, it’s the one that you never forget. It’s incredible to trust yourself to do those types of things. That record is beautiful: beautiful words, beautiful risk-taking with the playing. You can feel it, it feels like living there, like it’s living there and alive on the record when we play it. It was recorded over the course of three nights and to have been in the room those three nights must have been a wonderful thing. but this live record - I mean, I’ve played it a bazillion times.
The nature of the live show is hard to capture. The Allman Brothers - At Fillmore Eastīecause it’s the greatest. And I mean, who doesn’t like, “We sail tonight for Singapore/ We’re all as mad as hatters here?” I do. I really liked that record: the writing on it, and the poetic leanings with the beatnik type stuff happening in there. You got Marc Ribot, Chris Spedding, Keith Richards, and John Lure, the painter. It’s part of a concept trilogy, but it stands alone on its own. Tom Waits - Rain Dogsġ9 songs of just madness and poetry and rhythm.
He’s an artist, it’s magnificent, he did a fantastic job, but he’s also a path maker. He was the first African American during that time to get to exercise complete artistic control of his own recording career. The album’s integration of country and soul, at that time in popular music, it challenged racial barriers at the height of the Civil Rights movement. In my view, he does a wonderful job with country music. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music She geeks out about timeless songwriters such as Fiona Apple, Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits, and shares the joy she found in R&B twists on country themes from Ray Charles and Amy Winehouse.Īltogether, Shires selected 10 essential albums that every music fan could enjoy, including her own great record, Take It Like a Man, for which she pretends to pass over the interview to a very nice lady named “Nancy Squires.” Though she has garnered plenty of accolades, she continues to use all her wit and humor to fight for the respect her music deserves. Shires tells Consequence about the albums she fell in love with as a young woman in the 1990s, records by Sheryl Crow and Richard Buckner. On Loving You, you can hear Shires roots going back to Bob Wills and Texas swing, but you can also track other influences she’s picked up in decades of omnivorous listening. And we had so much fun that there that day, we decided that me and her were making a record.” So I flew to Austin, and we tried it out. “In my mind, the only way to get that accomplished was to have Bobbie play keys on it. Shires first sought out Bobbie for a cover of “Always on My Mind,” which she had originally earmarked for Take It Like a Man, her simmering 2022 solo record.
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