Isbell, Jason

Amanda Shires Isn’t Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook

Amanda Shires wasn’t trying to name-drop, honest. It’s just that she’s been working alongside country music legends since she was 15, so most of the characters who populate her anecdotes happen to need no introduction. My onyx ring reminded her of one John Prine once gave her — which she promptly dropped down a sewer […]

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A Perfect Weekend in Asbury Park, N.J.

To call Asbury Park a secret would betray its tumultuous and storied history: A wellspring of American music, tucked around the swamps of Jersey. A home to national icons. A vibrant L.G.B.T.Q. community. A city that bears the scars of the civil rights movement, blighted for decades by mismanagement and mistrust, that’s now in the […]

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