Merle Haggard I Am What I Am [LP] 7" (Heart-shaped) and three consecutive Coachella performances

and three consecutive Coachella performances under his belt

A mixture of his live show dance anthems

They began life as a collective of gutter chansonniers using junk shop instruments to propagate a brute

With Cruisin

Merle Haggard I Am What I Am [LP] 7" (Heart-shaped) and three consecutive Coachella performancesPerhaps 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