Description
Catalog # : LP-NW-5272
Artist : Hiatt, John
UPC : 607396527212
Label : New West Records
Street Date : 10/12/2018
Genre:
Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Country Rock
A1 Cry To Me
A2 All The Way To The River
A3 Aces Up Your Sleeve
A4 Poor Imitation Of God
A5 Nothing In My Heart
B1 Over The Hill
B2 Outrunning My Soul
B3 Hide Your Tears
B4 The Odds Of Loving You
B5 One Stiff Breeze
B6 Robber's Highway
The Eclipse Sessions, John Hiatt's newest album, offers up his strongest set of songs in years. Long celebrated as a skilled storyteller and keen observer of life's twists and turns, Hiatt can get at the heart of a knotty emotion or a moment in time with just a sharp, incisive lyric or witty turn of phrase. The 11 tracks presented in The Eclipse Sessions, from the breezy opener ''Cry to Me,'' to the stark ''Nothing in My Heart,'' the lost-love lamentation ''Aces Up Your Sleeve'' to the rollicking ''Poor Imitation of God,'' demonstrate that the singer-songwriter, now 66, is only getting better with age, his guitar playing more rugged and rootsy, his words wiser and more wry.
Hiatt goes all in with The Eclipse Sessions. There's a grit to these songs' a craggy, perfectly-imperfect quality that colors every aspect of the performances, right down to Hiatt's vocals, which are quite possibly his most raw and expressive to date. ''They ain't pretty, that's for sure,'' he says about the creaks and cracks that punctuate his phrases in songs like ''Poor Imitation of God'' and ''One Stiff Breeze.'' ''But I don't mind a bit. All the catches and the glitches and the gruffness, that sounds right to me. That sounds like who I am.'' The Eclipse Sessions is the sound of an artist not only living in but also capturing the moment.
