Walk On is a classic "road" album in the sense that its songs largely seem written to or about people who are not present, either because the singer is away from them, he is...
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Hiatt's fifth album and his first for Geffen, his third record label, was given a somewhat inappropriate big-gloss production (all shimmering keyboards and filtered vocals)...
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Two months after Capitol's The Best of John Hiatt 1973-1998 hit the stores, A&M released Greatest Hits: The A&M Years '87-'94. It's hard to surmise what weird licensing...
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John Hiatt finally achieved some sort of fame in 1987, when his comeback album Bring the Family sparked a career renaissance. For the next decade, his albums sold well and...
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Living a Little, Laughing a Little does a good job as an early-career summary, drawing material from each of his albums released from 1974 to 1985 -- Hangin' Around the...
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Stripped-down, back-porch recordings may be all the rage among the kids; but more often than not, the result is forced--or simply the kind of music that should be relegated...
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John Hiatt's 16th effort is a marked departure from his work of the previous 25 years, and a vast improvement over 1997's disappointing Little Head. Hiatt retrenched and...
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John Hiatt is better at imitating Howlin' Wolf than he is James Taylor, and that he tries both here as well as Bob Dylan and Ben E. King is some indication of his ambition,...
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John Hiatt mixed pop, folk, rock, R&B, country, and gospel on his debut album, immediately becoming an uncategorizable (and thus uncommercial) entity. Although this album...
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Hiatt makes his Guns N' Roses inspired rock move--in a manner of speaking--and manages to escape the singer-songwriter mold very easily. Having a superb new band helps,...
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For all of his ability to rock out, John Hiatt's records usually have more of a soul and/or country feel to them, which makes 1993's Perfectly Good Guitar something of an...
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John Hiatt's talents as a singer and songwriter have never been a matter of question, but for the longest time neither Hiatt nor his various record labels seemed to know...
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After the success of Bring the Family, John Hiatt originally intended to reunite that album's all-star backing band (Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner) for a follow-up....
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Here he was, looking like a punk rocker on the cover--but older fans knew he'd already made some albums in Nashville. Winner of the absolutely most unique song title of the...
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Conventional wisdom at the time was that MCA Records had signed John Hiatt (who had languished without a record contract for four years) with the idea that he would be their...
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Something of a disappointment in light of the heights reached on Bring The Family and Slow Turning, this set features "Through Your Hands," a duet with Karen Peris of the...
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John Hiatt's highest-charting album yet is a step down from the dizzy heights of Bring the Family and Slow Turning, as he abandons his more acid commentaries and turns in a...
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At the time of its release, Two Bit Monsters was perceived by critics who had caught up with John Hiatt on Slug Line as a less impressive follow-up to that record. In...
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Featuring some of the finest songs of his career--including the rocking "The Usual" and the Elvis Costello duet "Living A Little, Laughing A Little," this album displays a...
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Hiatt turned to veteran country producer Norbert Putnam here, but the result still rocked hard, with the occasional soul touch notably those obnoxious thumbstruck basslines...
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Bypassing 1974's Hanging Around the Observatory and 1975's Overcoats, Y'all Caught? is still an enjoyable collection of John Hiatt's early-'80s material, taking some of the...
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Uniformly acclaimed as Hiatt's all-time classic, this is a gripping album filled with emotion-packed songs--all extremely well played by a band including Ry Cooder, Nick...
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In 1987, John Hiatt, clean and sober and looking for an American record deal, was asked by an A&R man at a British label to name his dream band. After a little thought,...
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Apparently hoping for the same commercial success that met live albums by Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick, this humorously-titled live set features most of Hiatt's prime A&M...
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John Hiatt's first live album was recorded during a 1994 winter-spring tour of the U.S. (the title is a joke) and finds the singer/songwriter backed by the Guilty Dogs, a...
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It's said that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. You might want to add an annual John Hiatt album to the list. This is like Hiatt's 53rd album. He's...
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On a creative roll after 2000's acoustic Crossing Muddy Waters, John Hiatt returns rejuvenated as well as electric. Old backing band the Goners have returned for his 17th --...
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While Beneath This Gruff Exterior is credited to John Hiatt & the Goners, a more appropriate designation might be "John Hiatt and Sonny Landreth" -- hotshot guitarist...
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So just how many John Hiatt compilations does the world need? For a guy who has never quite landed a hit, Hiatt has certainly spawned more than his fair share of career...
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As of its 2001 release, there are at least three other single-disc compilations of John Hiatt's prolific career available, but none truly does justice to his immense body of...
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