Merle Haggard I Am What I Am [LP] 11/2/2018 and Before These Crowded Streets

and Before These Crowded Streets

Recorded at NRG Recording Services

Jeff Lynne

because as Albarn grows as a composer

semi-organic creature The Shrike

Merle Haggard I Am What I Am [LP] 11/2/2018 and Before These Crowded StreetsPerhaps there's a measure of defiance in the title of Merle Haggard's 2010 album I Am What I Am, but it's also a statement of plain fact: almost 50 years into a recording career, there's no changing the fact that Hag is who is he is, and he's comfortable in his own skin, broken in but not worn out, never pushing too hard but never coasting, either. Sometimes Haggard's easy touch is too light, slipping into sleepiness, but the striking thing about I Am