Artist: John Hiatt
Album: Terms Of My Surrender
Bitrate: 227kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: New West
Genre: Blues
Size: 73.16 megs
PlayTime: 0h 42min 38sec total
Rip Date: 2014-07-08
Store Date: 2014-07-15
Track List:
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01. Long Time Comin' 4:12
02. Face Of God 3:42
03. Marlene 3:01
04. Wind Don't Have To Hurry 3:47
05. Nobody Knows His Name 4:25
06. Baby's Gonna Kick 4:07
07. Nothin' I Love 4:23
08. Terms Of My Surrender 3:29
09. Here To Stay 3:55
10. Old People 4:30
11. Come Back Home 3:07
Release Notes:
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John Hiatt has always had one foot in the blues, and he's decided to wade waist
deep into the music on 2014's Terms of my Surrender. There isn't a lot of 12-bar
on this album if you're a purist about such things, but the tone of this music
is smoky and rich like a Deep South BBQ joint, which suits the gruff texture of
Hiatt's voice just fine, and the rootsy mood of the songs is reinforced by the
production and arrangements. Hiatt primarily plays acoustic guitar on Terms of
my Surrender, which cuts back the volume of these performances but adds a lot to
the slinky middle-of-the-night groove of the music; Doug Lancio, lead guitarist
with Hiatt's road band the Combo, produced this album, and the results sound
organic and spontaneous, more so than his previous albums with producer Kevin
Shirley, without obscuring the easy precision of Hiatt and his bandmates. The
interplay of the band is solid, with Nathan Gehri's bass and Kenneth Blevins'
drums resting comfortably in the pocket as Hiatt and Lancio conjure ghostly
melodies with their guitars. "Here to Stay" and "Nothing I Love" are simple but
effective blues-based numbers that deal with the tough side of love, while
"Marlene" and "Come Back Home" are more cheerful variations on similar themes,
and the quality of the songwriting here once again serves as a reminder of just
how good Hiatt is -- this is a guy who can crank out an album of new material
every couple years, and he always delivers a handful of real gems without
sounding rote, whether he's sounding ominous on "The Wind Don't Have to Hurry"
or offering snarky humor on "Old People." On Terms of my Surrender, Hiatt has
the blues, and he's got the goods, and this is another solid chapter in a
recording career that's drifted into an unexpected but pleasing renaissance.