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John Hiatt: Bottom Line, New York
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, August 1990
A SKINNY troubadour with a throaty, abrasive growl of a voice, John Hiatt slides in to the American rock dream somewhere between Ry Cooder at ...
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John Hiatt: Slow Turning (A&M)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, December 1988
THE FOLLOW-up to one of 1987's most acclaimed albums," imprinted on Slow Turnings cover sticker, says it all. Hiatt's previous Bring the Family garnered press ...
John Hiatt: Riding with the King (Geffen GHS 4017)
Review by Steven X Rea, High Fidelity, January 1984
A PARADE of rock critics have tagged John Hiatt "the American Elvis Costello." If that's the case, then Riding with the King is not only ...
Culture shock as Bob Dylan is outshone by the Boy Wonder
Review by Max Bell, The Times, 5 November 1983
Culture Club: Colour By Numbers (Virgin V2285); Bob Dylan: Infidels (CBS 25538); John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen GHS4017 Import); The Doors: Alive, She ...
John Hiatt: Terms Of My Surrender
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, August 2014
FOR WRITER/ARTISTS of a certain age, the sands of time can be like quicksand, sucking them under as they grasp at their past achievements. John ...
John Hiatt: Rock 'n' Roll Or Else
Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 29 August 1980
HE'S OUT there, in his old white Volvo, trying to come in from the cold. It's not an easy job, and the odds of ever ...
John Hiatt: Terms of My Surrender
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 15 July 2014
"SOMETIMES LOVE CAN BE SO WRONG/ Like a fat man in a thong/ It walks shamelessly away," John Hiatt intones over the sauntering acoustic blues ...
The Fugitive: Slow Talking with John Hiatt
Interview by Chris Bourke, Rip It Up (New Zealand), April 1991
JOHN HIATT can't seem to relax. He's in his Auckland hotel room — at the Hyatt, naturally — getting his photo taken. His worn, buttoned-up ...
John Hiatt: Return of the Demon Conqueror
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 9 October 1987
Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is back — at his best — from the drugs-and-booze brink. Adam Sweeting reports ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, December 1988
"IT'S KIND of a body, these last two albums," John Hiatt says. He's explaining why his recent concerts include only material from Slow Turning and ...
John Hiatt and the Sub-American Shoe Polish
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 15 September 1979
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, at four in the afternoon; sultry, but no rush hour. A street strewn with soggy cheeseburgers, watery Coke (registered trade mark) in giant ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2010
Nashville-based veteran rips through the gears. ...
John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 14 January 1984
KING JOHN, ASSUREDLY ...
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, February 2008
Harrowing '87 confessional enhanced by Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner. ...
Lyle Lovett/Joe Ely/Guy Clark/John Hiatt: State Theatre, Cleveland
Live Review by Holly Gleason, No Depression, 30 April 2007
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 ...
John Hiatt: Two Bit Monsters (MCA 5123)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, August 1980
LAST YEAR'S most exciting newcomer returns with his fourth album, hoping to become an overnight sensation after ten years. Forgetting an early pair of weak ...
Interview by Ken Hunt, Omaha Rainbow, Spring 1988
What's your date and place of birth? August 20th 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm a Hoosier. ...
John Hiatt: Warming Up To the Ice Age (Geffen)
Review by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, May 1985
HIATT HAS natural brown hair in a normal-citizen style and he's white and wears a regular black suit and a regular white shirt and he ...
Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, November 2008
JOHN HIATT WAS a complete fuck-up. The year was 1984 and his addiction to booze and cocaine induced what he referred to as "a semi-blackout ...
Hello Goodbye: John Hiatt and Little Village
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2010
WE CONVENED at Ry [Cooder]'s house in Santa Monica. Set up some amps in a ground-floor room which opened out on to his garden. ...
Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, July 1982
ONE FREQUENTLY repeated cliche of the rock press has it that John Hiatt is the "American Elvis Costello." ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1990
YOU DO NOT listen to John Hiatt for easy-going likeability. ...
John Hiatt : Have A Little Faith
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1987
JOHN HIATT IS onstage at the Roxy in L.A.; just him and a piano. It's part of this international convention A&M Records is holding to ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1982
JOHN HIATT'S career has been hampered by unfortunate business liaisons ever since lift-off. ...
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, July 1997
CONTINUING THE HIGH STANDARDS of Perfectly Good Guitar and Walk On, but with a lighter heart and a jauntier spring to its step, Little Head ...
John Hiatt & Starsailor: Making Classic Rock Sound Good
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 16 February 2002
A couple of years ago the singer/songwriter/guitarist John Hiatt recorded Crossing Muddy Waters, an acoustic album for the revived Vanguard label. ...
John Hiatt: Riding With The King
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 1983
SOMETIMES I think nuthin iz new in this old rock music, and every time it seems I have to turn to John Hiatt to shake ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, December 1993
BH: Looking back, John, was the Little Village experience you, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner as much of an anti-climax for you ...
John Hiatt: Half Moon, Putney, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983
FOR THE SECOND time in a matter of weeks this body-choked backroom played host to a mislaid American master. In John Hiatts territory he has ...
see also Ry Cooder
see also Little Village
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