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Anthology by: John Hiatt List Price: $19.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.97 You Save: $5.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731455613421 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Hip-O Records Manufacturer: Hip-O Records Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Hip-O Records Release Date: August 07, 2001 Studio: Hip-O Records Sales Rank: 9486 MPN: 556134 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Start here - then begin to collect everything Mr. Hiatt's put out.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. Rating: - Great John Hiatt AnthologyWonderful 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. Rating: - Terrific! Get this!One of the greats, John Hiatt is a writer's writer and singer's singer. If you're just starting to get to know his music, you're in luck, since this 2-CD set is the cream of the crop, 40 delicious slices of warm, wry, sunny, sad Americana. I've been into Hiatt for years and bought many of his individual releases, all of which I recommend, but this pulls together his greatest, most essential recordings. For heaven's sake, don't buy a single greatest hits CD when you can get so much more. I promise you will want more than just one CD of John's songs. Rating:  - Making a case for brilliance: John HiattThis is as superb a collection of John Hiatt's rocky career as you'll ever find short of a box set. This double disc, 40 song multi-lable endeavor shows Hiatt as he develops from an in-house writer to unique American songwriting voice, which, given the current climate of hit-now-or-die record company mentality, is an amazing thing to listen to. His first two LPs for CBS saw him struggling to write "hit" material before getting dropped from there. Hiatt moved to LA and became an "Angry Young Man" before getting signed to MCA (songs 4 through 9). As songs like "Pink Bedroom" (eventually a hit for Rosanne Cash) and "Slug Line" begin to show, Hiatt's focus is becoming clearer. His affections for the likes of Elvis Costello and Nick ... Read More: Rating: - Give us the box set......This is a very good and quite thorough overview of John Hiatt's career, and it certainly gets the nod over "Greatest Hits: The A&M Years '87-'94" and Capitol's "The Best Of John Hiatt", as it is much more comprehensive, featuring some forty songs as opposed to less than twenty on the other two major compilations. And the third John Hiatt best-of, "Living A Little, Laughing A Little", which focuses on his lesser-known tracks, only includes tracks recorded before 1986. It is not perfect...very few anthologies are, actually. And "Anthology" misses out on a handful of Hiatt's best songs: The groovy, soulful R&B of "Don't Know Much About Love" isn't here, and neither is the excellent roots-rocker "You May Already Be A Winner", ... Read More: |
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