Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jason Isbell was a restless guitarist. Amanda Shires was a fiddler who turned his life around. In 2014, they were a year into marriage, and discovering that sobriety and success come with new challenges.

Want more? Here are a few other conversations from our archive featuring Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires:

Live from the Internet: Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires & You: The couple took listener calls along with Anna about relationships, faith and music.

Jason Isbell & Will Welch: Somebody Needs Me: Jason guest hosts Death, Sex & Money, and talks with his best friend and GQ Editor in Chief Will Welch about sobriety and mental health.

What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine: Jason talks with Anna from his home in Nashville during the COVID-19 pandemic, about how coming on and off of tours has helped prepare him for sobriety in quarantine, and about the music he and Amanda are listening to right now.

And if you're looking for our Jason Isbell-inspired quarantine Spotify playlist, here it is.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anna.
0:02.3	And yesterday's new episode, I checked in with musician Jason Isbell about being in recovery
0:07.3	during this time of global pandemic and about how it's affecting him and his fellow musicians
0:12.4	financially.
0:13.4	Today, we wanted to share with you the very first conversation that I ever had with
0:18.0	Jason, along with his wife Amanda Shires, who's also a musician.
0:22.6	I talked with them way back in 2014.
0:25.7	For this show, I had even officially launched.
0:28.2	And it's a conversation that I often think back on fondly.
0:31.4	I hope you enjoy it.
0:33.8	I had to go through a series of trials, Herculean trials, before she would actually say that
0:39.1	we were, you know, that I was her boyfriend.
0:41.4	It's when, like, we were playing the field, it was just like, she just didn't know she
0:45.4	could trust me.
0:46.4	It's hard to trust somebody who's out crowds and every night, you know, even though he
0:50.4	left awesome voice mails.
0:56.1	This is...
0:57.1	...Sex and money.
0:58.7	My relationship with death remains the same, strongly against it.
1:03.2	It's the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot...
1:06.6	Do you think the sexual revolution has gone too far?
1:09.9	And need to talk about more.
	...

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