The single is a moving conversation between the multi-talented Americana songwriters about abortion and the complications it contains.
(Shires wrote about the experience in a 2020op-ed inRolling Stone.)
Meanwhile, Sheryl Crow plays bass on the song, and Isbell sits in on guitar.
Credit: ALYSSE GAFKJEN
It’s the version Shires envisioned when “The Problem” first began to take shape.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You released “The Problem” with Jason last fall.
What inspired this new version?AMANDA SHIRES:This was the original idea I had for it.
I was super proud of that, that it just happened so naturally.
Now we have our end result, which is the original idea come to life.
I’m super excited about it, because it’s not really the easiest conversation to have.
How did the conversations go with the women you reached out to?
The end result worked out so perfectly.
The fact that we don’t, I think it’s a poor reflection of freedom in general.
Something that struck me was when Morgane Stapleton joined me.
I admired everybody’s spirit of community and “We can do it together!”
That song originally started when a close friend of mine took me to get my abortion.
I feel like that spirit was captured.
The song should’ve already been written.
I think she lit the fire in me.
