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 The Highwomen (from the album The Highwomen available on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records)
The perfect musical storm comes when personal choices and causes collide. Forming as a female-centric tribute to The Highwaymen, Amanda Shires had a goal to gather musical favorites as bandmates while The Highwomen do their part to add weight on the currently out of balance gender scale for radio, performance, and touring. Their self-titled debut puts four women center-stage though the bright lights would mean nothing without the songs to snare the crowd old-school, musical hooks that hang on tight and songs that travel home as new friends for life. The Highwomen open on a melody borrowed from their brother title holders The Highwaymen, “Highwomen” telling its tale with strong female characters, voices of refugees, witches, and freedom riders, standing with band members who each take on a role, joined by Yola representing a bus rider who never returned from the freedom marches yet lives forever alongside her sisters in history. The Highwomen face mortality as they say goodbye with somber piano notes and a wandering fiddle that becomes a funereal march that shows its hero as a champion for “Cocktail and a Song” as the band acknowledge knowing what they want as well as they realize how far out of reach those dreams lie in “Old Soul”. The Highwomen corrals four high profile current Country music players, Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and casts them as the core of the project. Produced by Dave Cobb, The Highwomen plants an audio flag, looking back through the decades to find threads weaving the role of women into history with “Redesigning Women”. They shine a light on women of the world, gazing across the border, hearing the song of a young woman ‘stuck inside the “Wheels of Laredo”’ who finds an exit only in her dreams as a barroom conversation lays bare the heart of a woman warning the cowboy sitting on the next stool in “If She Ever Leaves Me”. The Highwomen update an outlaw prayer when Sheryl Crow joins the band for “Heaven is a Honky Tonk”. Listen and buy the music of The Highwomen from AMAZON https://thehighwomen.com/
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