Results for "John Hiatt"

John Hiatt

Peter Parcek: Most Of The Time

by Doug Collette
August 14, 2026

The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart ...

Davy Knowles and Jorma Kaukonen at The Essex Experience Summer Concert Series

by Doug Collette
August 31, 2024

As serendipitous as was the confluence of circumstances that brought Davy Knowles and Jorma Kaukonen to The Essex Experience Summer Music Series, it was all the more providential that both men gave solo performances on two late summer night dates so close to each other. For the former, this first stop in Vermont since just prior ...

Leftover Feelings

By John Hiatt

Label: New West Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Long Black Electric Cadillac; Mississippi Phone Booth; The Music Is Hot; All The Lilacs In Ohio; I’m In Asheville; Light Of The Burning Sun; Little Goodnight; Buddy Boy; Changes In My Mind; Keen Rambler; Sweet Dream.

Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story

by Doug Collette
November 7, 2021

Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story Michael Elliott 280 pages ISBN: #978-164160420 Chicago Review Press 2021 Reading Have A Little Faith, it becomes clear quite early on how deep and abiding is author Michael Elliott's passion for his subject, In fact, by the time The John Hiatt ...

Gary Vogenson: Shot of Hope

by Doug Collette
July 13, 2021

If the title of Gary Vogenson's Shot of Hope was not so pertinent to the post-quarantine world, he might well have named it Don't Misunderstand Me Too Quickly. At a quick glance, song choices such as the traditional “The Cuckoo" and Dan Penn and Chip Moman's soul/R&B standard “Do Right Woman" seem predictable. But, juxtaposed as ...

John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band: Leftover Feelings

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2021

Leftover Feelings is not the first such group collaboration in John Hiatt's varied and lengthy career—-the North Mississippi Allstars were integral to Master of Disaster (New West Records, 2005). But there's an even more unusual kinship in play here between this gifted songwriter and The Jerry Douglas Band, if only because this LP is even more ...

Delbert McClinton: Tall, Dark & Handsome

by Doug Collette
August 3, 2019

On his last album Prick of the Litter (Hot Shot Records, 2017 ), Grammy-Award winning [Delbert McClinton wholly fulfilled his image as the contemporary definition of modern Texas style r&b. He certainly didn't do it alone--his band the, Self-Made Men, added savvy and soul--but the man who showed John Lennon how to blow the harmonica imbued ...

The Eclipse Sessions

By John Hiatt

Label: New West Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Cry To Me; All The Way To The River; Aces Up Your Sleeve; Poor Imitation Of God; Nothing In My Heart; Over The Hill; Outrunning My Soul; Hide Your Tears; The Odds Of Loving You; One Stiff Breeze; Robber’s Highway.

John Hiatt: The Eclipse Sessions

by Doug Collette
October 28, 2018

Since John Hiatt hit his artistic and commercial stride with Bring The Family (A&M, 1987), the most listenable and durable albums of his have been those recorded with a band like the one appearing there (eventually known as Little Village: Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner). Offering comparably uniform musicianship in proportionate support of this ...