Amanda Shires, Honey Harper

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John Shearer

A person sitting in a stream.

Amanda Shires

Grammy- and Americana Award-winning violinist and songwriter Amanda Shires goes into raw, scary places on her new album, Take It Like a Man. It’s the product of a love-hate relationship with the isolation of COVID and what she and her husband, Jason Isbell, experienced with it. The album title may cause uncomfortable feelings in 2022, but the title track turns out to be a deeply urgent confessional. The new record is filled with such confessions — though the project, the Nashville-based artist says, is not a break-up album. Okay. But it’s about as close to one as anybody could possibly get. With Honey Harper, on tour behind the October release Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky.