Clocking in at less than 40 minutes, Take It Like a Man is a rambling chase. It comes up to speed through the mystical feel of "Smack Dab in a Big Tornado," a song with imagery familiar to long-time fans of White's work, hitting its first stride with "Corn Pone Refugee," a song that relishes in its word play. "I could not help myself, tugging on them strings," White sings with the gallop of Packway behind him both musically and vocally. What sounds in a lot of ways like a traditional bluegrass romp is transformed with White's distinctive imagery and vocal delivery.