Take it like Amanda: Award-winning singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is doing things her own way. Take It Like A Man, her seventh studio album, is a fearless confessional in the form of 10 intimate songs that offer musings on what it’s really like to turn 40. Grounded by Shires’ sultry voice and virtuoso fiddling, something she’s lent to collaborators John Prine and hubby Jason Isbell, the record features songs like the sex-positive “Bad Behavior” and the title track “Take It Like A Man,” which ends with the clever play on words, “I know I can take it like Amanda.” Says Shires: “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.”
Saturday 9/10. $27-149, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com