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I kept Watch Like Doves

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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I kept Watch Like Doves
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Genre: Crunk / Hawaiian / Indie
Location LUBBOCK/Nashville, Texas, US
Profile Views: 208021
Last Login: 8/3/2011
Member Since 11/16/2006
Website www.amandashires.net
Record Label Unsigned
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.. .. .. .. ...... Layout by ..CoolChaser.. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Masthead Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!.............. .. .. 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
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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