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Release Date: Oct 02, 2007; Lead Performance: Merle Haggard; Genre: Country/Bluegrass
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Chris Willman
Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly
It's his ''first bluegrass album,'' but don't expect banjo-slamming covers — just Merle Haggard's own chestnuts revived acoustically. Hag's usual
band swings so much that you may feel these rootsy arrangements straitjacket him. (''Big City,'' with its famous ''Turn me loose'' chorus, never sounded less loose.) While the main draw of The Bluegrass Sessions is several newly penned
tunes from country's greatest songwriter, you can skip ''What Happened?'',
his latest America-now-sucks anthem, and go straight to ''Wouldn't That
Be Something,'' a touching plea for marital reconciliation.
DOWNLOAD THIS: ''Mama's Hungry Eyes''
Posted Oct 12, 2007
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