Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Finalize Divorce More Than 1 Year After He Filed

Mar. 15, 2025

Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires attend the 67th Annual BMI Awards at BMI on November 12, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jason IsbellandAmanda Shires’ divorce is official.

The “Cover Me Up” singer filed for divorce in Tennessee on Dec. 15, 2023 after 10 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences as reason for the split, which he said had occurred a week-and-a-half earlier.

Isbell has been dating painter Anna Weyant, 29, since February 2024 after he read about her inGQmagazine and reached out, theWall Street Journalreported. She recently made the cover art for his new albumFoxes in the Snow, which came out on March 7.

“Jason Isbell has a new album out today. It’s painfully beautiful and brilliant, if you ask me,” Weyant wrote onInstagram, to which Isbell responded, “I truly can’t thank you enough ❤️.”

Of his divorce, Isbell told theWSJthat neither he nor Shires cheated, and that their marriage crumbled amid growing tension over their lack of a work/life balance and a difference in success. The pair are parents to 9-year-old daughter Mercy.

Jason Isbell and his wife Amanda Shires attend the premiere of HBOs documentary “Jason Isbell: Running with our Eyes Closed” at the Grammy Museum, in Los Angeles, March 23, 2023.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

“We weren’t plate-throwers, and we weren’t yelling in front of the kid… It got to the point where, if something really good happened to me, I wouldn’t even mention it, because I knew it would hurt her. It made the atmosphere unbreatheable for a while,” he said.

The Grammy winner previouslyopened up to PEOPLE in February 2024,saying he and Shires were “getting along right now.”

“It’s hard and sad, and I don’t enjoy it, but… I’m in a good place,” he said. “Mercy’s happy. She knows, no matter what, she’s going to be loved and safe and cared for.”

“Once I was done writing those songs, they didn’t really belong to me anymore,” he says. “If I said I can’t sing [these songs] now because of what’s happened in my own personal life, then I would be discrediting the emotional experience other people have had with them. For me it’s a matter of honoring other people’s connections with that music and also my own past. Just because something ended doesn’t mean it failed.”

Isbell and Shires were married in February 2013, and she played fiddle and sang backup for his band the 400 Unit, while he played guitar for her country supergroup The Highwomen.

source: people.com