Artist: John Hiatt
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
John Hiatt – Same Old Man
As they have throughout so much of John Hiatt’s career, the twin themes of love’s redemption and time’s inexorable passage find a common denominator (much as they did in Slow Turning) in his first release since 2005. The North Mississippi Allstars’ Luther Dickinson returns to provide multi-stringed support, with drummer Kenneth Blevins resuming his on-and-off [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Lyle Lovett – State Theatre (Cleveland, OH)
You have to start at the end — where they paid respects to Townes Van Zandt, the songwriter/compadre who captured the essence of life after being on the lam in “Pancho & Lefty” with the snippet, “The desert’s quiet and Cleveland’s cold.” Indeed it was cold, very cold, in downtown Cleveland the night Guy Clark, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
John Hiatt – Master Of Disaster
If John Hiatt was once America’s answer to Elvis Costello and the other angry young men of the British new wave, then he, like them, is approaching middle age jagged and subdued. Don’t be fooled by the Mexican wrestler on the album cover — at no time are these songs ready to rumble. Which is [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
John Hiatt & The Goners – Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Gruff guy that he is, John Hiatt has a way of getting right to the point. So he starts out his eighteenth album by declaring, “Well I do my best thinkin’ sittin’ on my ass.” It’s an interesting contradiction — a thoughtful and very literate songwriter who makes some of his best music on the [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
John Hiatt – Anthology
Every once in a while the propensity to repackage an artist’s career in two neat discs works to the listener’s advantage, but rarely. John Hiatt has long been a gifted songwriter and has cut a handful of brilliant albums, notably last year’s Crossing Muddy Waters and 1987′s watershed Bring The Family. But he has also [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
John Hiatt – Clear as Muddy
Even if you’ve never seen him do the GQ as the suit-and-tied host of PBS’ “Sessions At West 54th”, you may find it difficult to picture John Hiatt a-sittin’ and a-rockin’ on his back porch playing his perfectly good acoustic guitar. Yes, he and his wife live in an old farmhouse outside of Nashville with [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #2 Winter 1995
John Hiatt – Walk On
After finishing the ’80s on the top of his game as one of the best singer-songwriters in captivity, John Hiatt has spent much of this decade playing the court jester on adult contemporary stations, a sort of comic-relief sideshow to slip in between the unremitting earnestness of cuts by Natalie Merchant, Melissa Etheridge and unplugged [...]
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