Amanda Shires stands tough in the new live performance video for “Take It Like A Man”, the title track of her solo album out on July 29th via ATO Records. Along with the new single, Shires announced an extensive run of fall tour dates.
Filmed by Weston Heflin at the historic Columbia Records studio in Nashville, Shires is joined by a number of familiar faces including keyboardist Peter Levin (Gregg Allman), her Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit bandmate Jimbo Hart on bass, and her husband, Jason Isbell. The floor is Shires’s, however, as the frailty of her voice gives vulnerability to the titular machismo phrase delivered tongue-in-cheek. Isbell’s guitar solo takes on a “November Rain” magnificence thanks to the song’s string accompaniment before Shires alters the final refrain from “I know I can take it like a man” to “I know I can take it like Amanda.”
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“I wrote that last line, ‘take it like a man,’ but then I changed it,” Shires said. “I realized you can try and do what they say and take it like a man and show that you can withstand anything. But truly you can only take it like yourself.”
Watch the live performance video for Amanda Shires’ new single, “Take It Like A Man”. The album is available here for pre-order.
Amanda Shires – “Take It Like A Man” (Official Live Session)
Shires will bring Take It Like A Man on the road this fall on a coast-to-coast North American tour set to begin on September 6th in Asheville, NC and run through November 20th in Omaha, NE, featuring stops in Washington, D.C., Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, and many more, including an October 21st show opening for Isbell And The 400 Unit at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time with local pre-sales starting Thursday.
Amanda Shires 2022 Take It Like A Man Tour Dates
09-06 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
09-07 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
09-09 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
09-10 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theatre
09-11 Knoxville, TN – Bijou
09-13 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
09-14 Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live
09-16 Providence, RI Fete Ballroom
09-17 Fredericton, New Brunswick – Harvest Jazz & Blues Fest
09-19 Homer, NY – Center for the Arts
09-21 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09-22 Atlanta, GA – VAriety Playhouse
09-23 Charleston, SC – Music Farm
09-24 Chattanooga, TN – Songbirds
10-02 Florence, AL – Shoals Fest
10-06 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre
10-07 Salt Lake City, UT – Commonwealth room
10-09 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s
10-10 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
10-11 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
10-12 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
10-15 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10-16 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
10-21 Nashville, TN – The Ryman
10-22 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
10-24 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe
10-26 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
10-27 Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
10-28 Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi
10-29 Birmingham, AL – Moonstone Festival
11-03 Louisville, KY – Headliners
11-04 Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
11-05 Evanston, IL – Space
11-07 St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam
11-08 Kansas City, MO – Madrid Theatre
11-09 Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Gardens
11-11 Dallas, TX – The Kessler
11-12 Houston, TX – Heights Theater
11-13 Austin, TX – Antone’s
11-15 Little Rock, AR – Rev! Room
11-16 St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
11-18 Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
11-19 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
11-20 Omaha, NE – Barnato
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“Take It Like A Man” Lyrics
Like a common loon I started hearing birds
Birdsong everywhere a lark in the shower
From the night to the morning after
Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat
Shook and quivering, I could have crowed
Oh I could have crowed
I was snared by your wrist
I know what the cost is
The octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
and I know I could take it like a man
I know I could take it like a man
Falls of fascinations the sky was leaking light
like your eyes do that shipwrecked expression
I need more words for blue
Trilling in the tree the way I measure you
Fractured thirteenths that grin that you give
When you want me to quit
Falling further and falcon swift
I know what the cost is
In the octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
Falling further and falcon swift
I know what the cost is
In the octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I can take it like a man
View Lyrics
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