Amanda Shires – Break Out the Champagne (Radio Edit)

Labels:Thirty Tigers
Number of Tracks:1
Total Time:00:02:43
From the Album:Break Out the Champagne (Radio Edit)
Formats:AAA,Americana,Non-Commercial
Available Date & Time: Oct 18 2018 10:00:00 EDT
Impact Date: Nov 05 2018 00:00:00

Amanda Shires

"Break Out the Champagne (Radio Edit)"

Impacting November 5

From the critically acclaimed new album To The Sunset 

Available Now

 

 "This song is about remembering to celebrate the things that you’ve lost even as you are losing them. Put on your big girl pants and push forward, wade through the muck and get on with the shit show ($Hit Show). The way to move is through. " – Amanda Shires 

 

 

“It’s all rock & roll – no golf!” is how acclaimed singer/songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires describes her electrifying fifth album, To The Sunset. She’s borrowed a lyric from the effervescent track “Break Out the Champagne,” one of ten deftly crafted songs that comprise her powerful new recording. The Texas-born road warrior, new mom, and recently minted MFA in creative writing has mined a range of musical influences to reveal an Amanda Shires many didn’t know existed. “Isn’t it refreshing?” Shires asks. Indeed. Distorted electric guitars, effects pedals, swirling keys and synths, and rockin’ rhythms certainly suit Shires’ visceral songcraft and lilting soprano.

 

She reconvened with Land’s producer Dave Cobb (Isbell; Sturgill Simpson) at Nashville’s historic sound-drenched RCA Studio A, with likeminded sonic adventurers, drummer Jerry Pentecost and keyboardist Peter Levin, alongside Isbell on guitar and Cobb on bass. Of course, she brought the fiddle she’s been playing since a teen, touring with Western swing stalwarts, the Texas Playboys. Only this time, she added effects pedals, distorting the instrument with which she’s accompanied Billy Joe Shaver, John Prine, and Todd Snider into something otherworldly. “I had never tried pedals before,” says Shires, “and I wanted to change my fiddle sound. I’ve been playing this instrument the same way for so long, and playing with pedals is so fun for me!”

 

As a whole, To The Sunset, says Shires, “is meant to be a positive thing. Acknowledging your past, and at sunset, your hope for a new day. ‘To The Sunset’ sounds like a toast: This day is over, we don’t know what’s in the future, but it’s hopeful, I think.”

 

“The excellent singer-songwriter’s boldest LP yet…” – 4-Stars – Rolling Stone

 

“…10 precise and passionate songs…”Entertainment Weekly

 

“…Shires’ new album is straight-up nasty, grimy Southern rock, unapologetic in its heaviness…[she] has the precision of a great country singer, but she never strives for beauty. Instead, she puts herself right into the desperate circumstances of her own characters.”Stereogum

"The often brooding music, lyrics and production of 'To The Sunset' is a perfect example of the restless Shires 'moving forward.' It’s her boldest, toughest and at times most melancholy release, challenging herself and her audience, to look ahead, not back.” American Songwriter

 

"Shires is way out there, an unclassifiable original, which is what makes 'To the Sunset' a pleasure.”Associated Press

 

TOUR:

10/26 – Nashville, TN  – Ryman Auditorium  

11/8  – Winston-Salem, NC  – The Ramkat

11/9  – Charleston, SC  – Charleston Music Hall

11/10  – Winter Haven, FL  – Gram Parsons Derry Down

11/11  – Clearwater, FL  – Capitol Theatre

11/13  – Chattanooga, TN  – Songbirds South

11/29  – St. Louis, MO  – Off Broadway

11/30  – Bloomington, IL  – Castle Theatre

12/1  – Newport, KY  – The Southgate House Revival

12/2  – Charlotte, NC  – Neighborhood Theatre

2/10-2/17/19  – Tampa, FL – Cayamo Cruise

For more information contact:

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