Another Country with Ricky Ross

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Music: Country: Experimental & New

Ricky Ross enters the landscape of Americana and alternative country

Ricky Ross enters the musical landscape of Americana and alternative country. Featuring new and classic tracks, with Ricky taking a closer look at the stories behind the songs

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Another Country with Ricky Ross: Amanda Shires

Amanda Shires

BBC Radio Scotland - Another Country with Ricky Ross, Amanda Shires

The American singer-songwriter and fiddle player is in session and conversation.

Amanda Shires in session and conversation. She talks about her own songs, the album she's just made with Bobbie Nelson and the supergroup she formed called The Highwomen.

Amanda Shires is in session and conversation. She's a Texan singer-songwriter and fiddle player now based in Nashville. Amanda shares the powerful and personal themes behind her seventh solo album, Take It Like A Man, and performs some of the songs acoustically. She talks about the album she recorded with the late Bobbie Nelson, the elder sister of Willie. Amanda formed the Grammy winning supergroup The Highwomen with Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby as a response to American country radio ignoring female artist, and she's also a member of her husband Jason Isbell's band The 400 Unit.

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