Merle Haggard: I Am What I Am bdc brand Safer’s naïf-style multimedia art gives

Safer’s naïf-style multimedia art gives fitting nod to folk traditions featured in this wide-ranging survey of musical instruments that spans centuries

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Create a sotto voce sonnet or a few allegro lines to melody and harmony

editor David Tedeschi

spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington

Merle Haggard: I Am What I Am bdc brand Safer’s naïf-style multimedia art gives2010 album from the Country legend. I Am What I Am bristles with all the arresting qualities for which this unrivaled artist is prized. Every song is imbued with the near alchemical power of his dazzling vocal performances, and Haggard's interpretive mastery and unmatched phrasing continues to bring on impressive measures of sensitivity, candor and authority. Never conventional, often confrontational, always outspoken, the 72 year old Haggard remains