Tracklist

01. Damn This Town [0:04:52.96]
02. Til I Get My Lovin' Back [0:03:28.46]
03. I Love That Girl [0:04:21.25]
04. All The Way Under [0:03:49.86]
05. Don't Wanna Leave You Now [0:05:44.52]
06. Detroit Made [0:03:54.60]
07. Hold On For Your Love [0:06:22.14]
08. Train To Birmingham [0:03:38.54]
09. Down Around My Place [0:05:59.57]
10. Adios To California [0:03:47.56]
11. When New York Had Her Heart Broke [0:05:08.72]

Personnel

John Hiatt - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Kenneth Blevins - drums
Doug Lancio - electric guitars, mandolin, Hammertone
Patrick O'Hearn - bass guitar
additional musicians
Doug Henthorn - additional backing vocals
Russ Pahl - pedal steel guitar
Arlan Schierbaum - keyboards
Reese Wynans - organ on "Down Around My Place"
Orchestration - Jeff Bova and the Bovaland Orchestra

The Indiana-born singer-songwriter has been releasing albums since the mid-‘70s, and has become even more prolific in the last decade. “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns” is his seventh studio release since 2000, and 20th overall.

Once again recording with his road band, Hiatt isn’t much for frills or fussiness. But he knows how to write and frame a durable song – little wonder he’s been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop. His tunes frequently fall into a midtempo pocket that draws on numerous American traditions: the wit and rhythms of blues and soul, mostly, but also the twang of country, a hint of Tex-Mex, a shot of rock ‘n’ roll, tied together by sharply observed images.

With a wolfish drawl, he puts a few sly twists into straight-up pop (“Love That Girl”), milks a little more mileage out of a chugging I-love-my-car homage (“Detroit Made”) and hops aboard for another clickety-clack railroad ride (“Train to Birmingham”). These are the kinds of craftsmanlike genre exercises Hiatt could toss off for decades -- if not quite matching the songwriting standard he set in classic albums such as “Riding With the King” (1983) or “Bring the Family” (1987).

But every album contains a few moments of mastery, and “Dirty Jeans” is no exception. In “Damn This Town” he somehow pulls self-deprecating humor out of despair, and colors the post-Apocalyptic nightmare of “Hold on For Your Love” with steadily rising desperation, punctuated by Doug Lancio’s guitar solo. The deceptively dream-like “Adios to California” strings together telling couplets about a break-up that should be the envy of every novelist. And with “Don’t Wanna Leave You Now,” he persuasively transforms himself into a love-struck soul balladeer. ''chicagotribune.com''
3 stars (out of 4)

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