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I Am What I Am
"I've always said that someday"--perceptible, heart-shattering pause, followed by the line's nearly swallowed completion--"Iwasgonna leeeave you." "I'm Not Ready Yet" isn't the one most listeners remember when they talk about George Jones's 1980 comeback album I Am What I Am; that would be "He Stopped Loving Her Today," a grand, fatalistic ballad about romantic obsession. "Stopped" is a masterful recording, a now-legendary match of artist and song, but it's only one of the classic tracks here. Even filler such as a cover of "Good Hearted Woman" captures the newly detoxed Jones in top form, and while this disc is no substitute for a killer greatest-hits disc or two, it gave firm notice that the man--The Man--was back to stay. --Rickey Wright
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Tracks| 1 | He Stopped Loving Her Today | | 2 | I've Aged Twenty Years in Five | | 3 | Brother to the Blues | | 4 | If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) | | 5 | His Lovin' Her Is Gettin' in My Way | | 6 | I'm Not Ready Yet | | 7 | I'm the One She Missed Him With Today | | 8 | Good Hearted Woman | | 9 | Hard Act to Follow | | 10 | Bone Dry |
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