Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson Release New Albums This Week
Merle Haggard and Willie
Nelson -- two artists in their 70s who continue to create compelling music -- each released their first albums on new
labels Tuesday (April 20). Haggard's I Am What I Am (Vanguard) was recorded with his band, the Strangers, at his Shade
Tree Manor studio in northern California. Nelson revisited an array of classic songs on his aptly-titled Country Music
(Rounder), his first project with producer T Bone Burnett. Other new
albums arriving this week include David Ball's Sparkle City
(E1 Entertainment), Whitney Duncan's Right Road Now (Warner
Bros. Nashville), the Infamous Stringdusters' Things That
Fly (Sugar Hill) and Shelby Lynne's Tears, Lies and Alibis
(Everso).
