John Hiatt &Jerry Douglas Band Leftover Feelings Splatter Black Vinyl Signed NEW
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John Hiatt’s new release “Leftover Feelings” is his best in years. Maybe he brought his best written work from recent years into the studio; maybe the backing of Jerry Douglas's exceptional band pushed Mr. Hiatt to a higher level.
The sessions were produced by Jerry Douglas, justly famous for his resonator guitar (dobro) session work on hundreds of recordings over the years. The backing by Mr. Douglas’s band provides striking support. Charts are anchored by resonant double-bass work by Daniel Kimbro, also a noted session player and credited with the string arrangements. Mid-range instruments include Mike Seal on acoustic and electric guitars, Christian Sedelmyer on violin, and some back-up vocals by Carmella Ramsey.
CONDITION : NEW. Limited Edition Autographed Black Splatter Vinyl
TRACK LISTING:
SIDE A 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
SIDED B Little Goodnight Buddy Boy Changes In My Mind Keen Rambler Sweet Dream
After opening with two-ahead blues, we’re lead to ballads, both slow and up-tempo, carried by the ring of Mr. Douglas’s slide playing. Hiatt’s lyrics feature recurring references to the 50s and 60s of his boyhood: “Mississippi phone booth,“ “you wearin’ a dress you saw in a catalog,” “a tune like a number one song,“ The sly riff on Chuck Berry in "Keen Ramble” features a man who “Walks all over town mornin’ til the sun goes down.”
The joys of remembered romance caught in those first spring days, show here:
It was springtime, and you were just a boy And all the lilacs in Ohio All the lilacs in Ohio, there ya go In city streets and the dirty winter snow All the lilacs in Ohio - hio
So you pin her handkerchief to clean white linen sheets And you unmake your bed and crawl in You imagine her there and you're tangled in her hair And she smells like flowers again
That boyhood thrill is echoed in loss in “I’m in Asheville:”
From these leftover feelings A vision of you comes up again And your dancin’ by the radio In some hotel room in my mind And I’m in Asheville and I’m sorry For leaving you behind
Hiatt has long featured songs drawn unmistakably from the personal. A sorrowful reminder of the brother he lost to suicide come with “Light of the Burning Sun.” A favorite here, for any parent who remembers those sleepless, mid-night struggles with a baby and everyone else except the lady with the alligator purse:
Little Goodnight started staying up a lot With her big baby blues wide open like a rim shot Jim and Mary thought parenthood was ‘sposed to be a joy uh-huh Started thinking bad thoughts started acting kinda paranoid Well they took her to the doctor they took her to the nurse There were potions recommended just like it was some kinda curse
Elegiac “Changes In My Mind” and “Sweet Dream.”
Then morning comes so clear And as I feel to hold you near It's in your heart I find Changes in my mind
And:
Slept one time in New Jersey By the side of the road And I thought about your warm heart As I shivered in the cold
When we’re lucky, a powerful coda comes from artists facing the impact of age and still pushing to excellence: e.g., Philip Roth’s last novel – Nemesis; Shakespeare – The Tempest; Beethoven – the Ninth Symphony; or Pierre-Auguste Renoir – still fascinated with Gabrielle (With A Rose) and in Judgment of Paris. John Hiatt surely belongs on this list. It’s such a joy to hear the man who once lamented his five to eight years at Brushy Mountain (though not the hijinks that got him there) now put together such a triumph.
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