Anthology Music Cd

John Hiatt - Anthology

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Anthology      Artist : John Hiatt      List Price : $19.98 USD        Your Price : $14.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2001-08-07      Studio : Hip-O Records      Label : Hip-O Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (17 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Anthology      Start here - then begin to collect everything Mr. Hiatt's put out.      Rating:      Until recently, I was aware only that John Hiatt is a song writer who crafted songs covered by others. Last month I saw him in solo performance and the next day I purchased this anthology. This collection is jaw-dropping in scope - from early Nashville days, to much more contemporary writing and performing. This is a great beginning point; in fact, I've already added "The Tiki Bar Is Open" and "Master of Disaster" to my collection. I appreciate wry wit in songwriting, from Richard Thompson to Albert Collins, and John Hiatt ranks right up there. This investment investment pays great dividends.     Customer Reviews for Anthology Cd      Great John Hiatt Anthology      Rating:      Wonderful overview of one of the great witers and performers of the last 30 years.One senses the development in terms of craft and subject matter as John Hiatt matures over the years. By the second cd,(it is in chronological order), he has hit his stride and everything comes together. An excellent collection. Editorial Reviews for Anthology Audio Cd      Amazon.com      To paraphrase a musical icon, John Hiatt has been a poet, a pauper, and a pawn. He also wrote "Riding with the King." What he hasn't been is a household name. That's a shame, because Hiatt has forged one of the most consistently satisfying canons of any contemporary American singer-songwriter. This double-disc, 40-song anthology charts Hiatt's sometimes stormy, always compelling course across more than a half-dozen record labels and nearly as many styles. Beginning with his early days as a Nashville hired gun (including "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here," a song Three Dog Night took to the top 20), this collection's first disc documents Hiatt's restless early career, which bounded off early Dylan (who covered the songwriter's "The Usual") and Stones influences, through nascent L.A. punk, and on to healthy Elvis obsessions (both Presley and Costello); indeed, songs like "My Edge of the Razor" and "She Loves the Jerk" sound like Costello outtakes. The second chapter chronicles Hiatt boiling off his rich, disparate influences in the mid-'80s to find his own true voice--and again forging successes for others with songs, like his sly original version of Bonnie Raitt's comeback hit, "Thing Called Love." By the collection's final tracks ("Take It Down" and "Crossing Muddy Waters," from the 2000 album named after the latter), Hiatt had come full circle, again embracing his country-blues roots, but in a stripped-down acoustic setting that only underscored his gifts of observation and musical storytelling. --Jerry McCulley