Amanda Shires

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Amanda Shires is a fiddler, singer, songwriter and a decent human being. Watch for firecrackers, boot stompin', and other disruptions!

She is a ThriftStoreCowboy, A Dirty Small, a Lovenote, and is currently working with her Band of Men and she will be coming to a town near you!



“I remember sitting in an airport waiting for a plane and my drummer Kenney

running up and saying ‘there’s a girl here you gotta hear’ and we walked up and there she was this beautiful girl with a fiddle standing by herself and smiling and playing and I said ‘How about some Faded Love?’ and she played so pretty that Kenny and I missed

our plane. America needs pizzicato.”-Chris Isaak



"Amanda Shires leans back on her heels, bears down on her bow and evokes the spirit of Spade Cooley. With a voice that whispers Dolly and lyrics that scream Faulkner, this girl shines like a diamond, but she's pure Pearl."

-Justin Townes Earle



West Cross Timbers is a charming marriage of classic folk and country forms to youthful originality. I trust that artists of Ms Shires' caliber will keep the tried but true heart of folk and country music beating into the next generation."

--Slaid Cleaves



"If you don't like Amanda Shires. then you don't like America." -DeVotchKa



"Amanda Shires' voice, songs, and violin make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. In a good way. "

-Will Kimbrough



“fiddler and onstage sparkplug…baptized in panhandle winds”-Tom Geddie Buddy Magazine

“She makes a statement that she’s

standing on her own instrumentally and vocally. Shires will conjure

smiles one moment, and in the next communicate loneliness with fiddle

and bow.”-William Kerns Lubbock Avalanche Journal“She certainly impressed a lot of UK music lovers with her



fine fiddle work, expressive vocals and all-round charm and

beauty.”-Alan Cackett Maverick Magazine



"this gal is one of the best kept secrets we’ve discovered" Bill Lavery -Village Records