Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires are divorcing after marital struggles chronicled in songs
LA TimesCountry artists Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in February 2023, are splitting up after nearly 11 years of marriage. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, whose marital woes went public around the release of his 2020 album “Reunions,” are headed separate ways in their personal lives after he filed for divorce. / And the old lovers sing, ‘I thought it’d be me / Who helped him get home.’ / But home was a dream, one I’d never seen / ‘Til you came along.” Isbell famously sobered up after an intervention in 2012, which influenced the songs on “Southeastern.” That sobriety “made all the difference,” he told The Times in 2016. “At one point, I said, ‘It’d be easier if somebody had cheated,’” Isbell told the New York Times in May 2020 around the release that month of “Reunions.” “Then we could say, ‘You did this,’ or ‘I did this,’ and ‘Somebody needs to be real sorry.’ But it was more like, ‘We don’t know each other right now.
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