“I remember sitting in an airport waiting for a plane and my drummer Kenney running up and saying ‘there’s a girl here you gotta hear’ and we walked up and there she was this beautiful girl with a fiddle standing by herself and smiling and playing and I said ‘How about some Faded Love?’ and she played so pretty that Kenny and I missed our plane. America needs pizzicato.” -Chris Isaak “fiddler and onstage sparkplug…baptized in panhandle winds” -Tom Geddie Buddy Magazine “She makes a statement that she’s standing on her own instrumentally and vocally. Shires will conjure smiles one moment, and in the next communicate loneliness with fiddle and bow.” -William Kerns Lubbock Avalanche Journal “She certainly impressed a lot of UK music lovers with her fine fiddle work, expressive vocals and all-round charm and beauty.” -Alan Cackett Maverick Magazine