Fiddle player extraordinaire, sometime dueter with Rod Picott, and a country voice to die for. She has a new record coming in May, and for the next few days you can download her fabulous 2009 effort 'West Cross Timbers' for nothing from here, just sign up for the mailing list:
http://www.amandashires.net/Amanda_Shires/HOME.html
“Shires is a damn talented and idiosyncratic song-writer. She is a fiddling maestro. At times her energetic, jittery vocals and eccentric lyrical subjects mark her out as a young female heir to the godfather of strange, Mr. Tom Waits.” -Americana UK