by John Hiatt List Price:$17.00 Our Price:$13.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Label: New West Records
Average Customer Review: 4.5 Based on 6 reviews.
Sales Rank: 20
Tracks
1.
When My Love Crosses Over
2.
Wintertime Blues
3.
Thunderbird
4.
Old School
5.
Master Of Disaster
6.
Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It
7.
Howlin' Down The Cumberland
8.
Find You At Last
9.
Cold River
10.
Back On The Corner
11.
Ain't Ever Goin' Back
Editorial Review
Roots and groove mark this teaming of John Hiatt and the North Mississippi Allstars. On Master of Disaster, legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson and his sons Luther and Cody (the Allstars' guitarist and drummer, respectively) team with veteran bassist David Hood to give Hiatt's music a slow simmer rather than the high voltage fans might have expected from the collaboration. Yet the airy, organic interplay of the band provides the perfect complement for Hiatt's songs of folkish simplicity and lyrical grace. With the title track, he addresses the artist's midlife crisis and finds creative renewal in the process, a theme revisited in the country ballad "Old School." There's a ragtime spirit to "Wintertime Blues" and "Back on the Corner," the insistence of a tom-tom's thump on "Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It" and "Find You at Last," a slide guitar that slices and dices through "Ain't Ever Goin' Back." With "When My Love Crosses Over," Hiatt returns to the soulful, soaring romantic balladry that remains a signature specialty, while "Cold River" tells a story that probes the coldest resources of the human heart. The result is his richest and most consistently satisfying release since the late '80s. --Don McLeese
