During the height pandemic second, many people obtained used to hanging out with the extraordinarily cool married couple of Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell as they performed acoustic livestream units of their attic. Now that they’re getting out of the home, Shires and Isbell — now serving as Record Store Day Ambassadors within the US — are discovering other ways onto our laptop computer screens, and they’re notwanting the identical. Last night time, the 2 of them had been the musical friends on The Tonight Show, and the presentation was not the identical.
Last yr, Amanda Shires, the Highwomen member and solo singer-songwriter, launched her album Take It Like A Man. Jason Isbell backed her up on that report, and he additionally backed her up in final night time’s Fallon efficiency. On the present, Shires sang “Hawk For The Dove,” that LP’s stormy country-rock opening monitor. She and the remainder of the band all appeared ridiculously cool.
For this efficiency, nearly everybody within the band dressed like biker-bar vampires from a Blade film — cowboy hats, leather-based jackets, all black. Amanda Shires stared down the digital camera, sang about being what you need, and performed an incredible fiddle solo. The efficiency had ambiance, which isn’t a simple factor to conjure in a late-night studio. Watch it under.
Take It Like A Man is out now on ATO Records