My hand broke, ‘coz I was trying to keep my head from hitting the metal,” says Amanda Shires, wildcat of alt-country-rock.

Amanda Shires stops in New Orleans this Saturday night at the House of Blues – Parish Room for the final show of a tour promoting My Piece of Land, her acclaimed fifth solo album. Like her ...

Art is always personal. Good art, at least, is always personal. But sometimes art can be deeply, maybe even painfully personal - revealing, vulnerable, emotionally raw. That is certainly the case for ...

Two years after a crushing breakup, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is sitting in an empty hotel bar, her arms shaking as she reads a page from her notebook. She's been stumbling, she says, in ...