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John Hiatt har sl\u00e4ppt ett nytt album med The Jerry Douglas Band. Albumet Leftover Feelings sl\u00e4pptes 21 maj 2021.<\/p>\n
I ett pressmail ber\u00e4ttar John Hiatt om albumet:
\nIn the midst of a global pandemic, John Hiatt walked into Historic RCA Studio B and opened up a lifetime full of leftover feelings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was immediately taken back to 1970, when I got to Nashville,\u201d said Hiatt, who was at the studio to record with Dobro master Jerry Douglas and Douglas\u2019s band. \u201cYou can\u2019t not be aware of the records that were made there . . . Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Waylon Jennings doing \u2018Only Daddy That\u2019ll Walk the Line.\u2019 But all that history wasn\u2019t intimidating, because it\u2019s such a comfortable place to make music.\u201d<\/p>\n
A half-century ago, Hiatt lived in a ratty, $15-a-week room on Nashville\u2019s 16th Avenue, less than a mile away from the RCA and Columbia studios that were the heartbeat of what had come to be known as \u201cMusic Row.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the ensuing 50 years, he went from a scuffling young buck to a celebrated grand master of song. His lyrics and melodies have graced more than 20 studio albums, have been recorded by Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt and scores of others, and have earned him a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, a BMI Troubadour award, and a lifetime achievement in songwriting designation from the Americana Music Association.<\/p>\n
He and wife Nancy live in a nicer neighborhood now, just out of town and within walking distance of Douglas, who reinvented the Dobro and is responsible for bringing the instrument to popular presence in modern times. Douglas has performed on more than 1,500 albums by artists including Ray Charles, George Jones, Alison Krauss, Earl Scruggs, and James Taylor, and none of those works sound a bit like this collaboration with Hiatt.<\/p>\n
Leftover Feelings is neither a bluegrass album nor a return to Hiatt\u2019s 1980s days with slide guitar greats Ry Cooder and Sonny Landreth, though Douglas\u2019s opening riff on \u201cLong, Black Electric Cadillac\u201d nods to Landreth\u2019s charged intro to \u201cTennessee Plates,\u201d Hiatt\u2019s epic tale of heisting Elvis Presley\u2019s Cadillac, a car that was surely purchased with proceeds from some of the 250-plus songs the King recorded at Studio B.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no drummer, yet these grooves are deep and true. And while the up-tempo songs are, as ever, filled with delightful internal rhyme and sly aggression, the Jerry Douglas Band\u2019s empathetic musicianship nudges Hiatt to performances that are startlingly vulnerable. Built when Hiatt was five-years-old, Studio B was designed for music to be made in real time by musicians listening to each other and reacting in the emotional moment. That\u2019s what happened here: Five players on the studio floor, making decisions on instinct rather than calculation.<\/p>\n
All this is made possible, of course, by Hiatt\u2019s songs, one of which \u2014 \u201cMusic is Hot\u201d \u2014 mentions the Studio B recording of Waylon Jennings singing \u201cOnly Daddy That\u2019ll Walk the Line.\u201d The lyrics are explorations of individual experiences \u2014 family, loss, tough redemption, and long-term love \u2014 in which Hiatt reveals the universal.<\/p>\n
The album answers the question Hiatt posed thirty years ago in \u201cListening to Old Voices\u201d: \u201cIs it true we are possessed by all the ones we leave behind, or is it by their lives we are inspired?\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer is \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those lives are musical ones, as recorded in the studio where he and Douglas gathered to extend a legacy. And they are deeply personal ones, as detailed in \u201cLight of the Burning Sun,\u201d about the suicide of Hiatt\u2019s eldest brother, and the resulting dissolution of his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father screamed, \u2018No,\u2019 and beat on the wall\/ Shook the foundations of the house, shook the life out of us all,\u201d he sings, in the most straightforward and sober vocal of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just the story,\u201d Hiatt said. \u201cWith that, the family just blew a gasket. It\u2019s a part of who I am, and part of what I\u2019ve been working through, all these years. Again, it\u2019s just the story. Like Guy Clark said, \u2018You can\u2019t make this shit up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Leftover feelings that will remain unresolved, no matter how often explored. Explicated in a place of history, a place of comfort. A sacred place, if you believe the documentation of human expression to be a holy thing.<\/p>\n
Here, then, is a meeting of bruised and triumphant American giants. Here are Hiatt and Douglas, creating the meant-to-be: Love songs and road songs, sly songs and hurt songs.<\/p>\n
Their songs, and now our songs.<\/p>\n
Leftover feelings that edify and sustain.<\/p>\n