Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, the country and Americana singer-songwriters who have been a Nashville power couple for years, are getting a divorce.
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.
The “Cover Me Up” singer-songwriter filed for dissolution of his second marriage on Dec. 15, according to online court records from Williamson County, Tenn., just south of Nashville.
Isbell, who branched out last year to play Bill Smith in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” married Shires, a singer-songwriter and violinist, in 2013 after the two had worked together off and on for years. The 45-year-old musician previously was married to musician Shonna Tucker from 2002 to 2007.
Shires assembled the female supergroup the Highwomen, which also included Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Maren Morris. The 41-year-old musician has been a member of Isbell’s band the 400 Unit and was the inspiration for his tune “Cover Me Up,” which was covered with great success by Morgan Wallen on his “Dangerous” album.
