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Album: John Hiatt, "Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns" (New West)

John Hiatt is the Flying Dutchman of contemporary heartland rock and roll, or whatever you'd like to label the thing that is that John Hiatt does. No harbor will accept him, and he will stay out on his weird, unknowable mission forever, and this is the only thing we can say for certain about John Hiatt. A review of John Hiatt's 2011 album release "Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns."

John Hiatt talks 'The Open Road'

Assessing the quality of the songwriting on any John Hiatt album is a significant challenge. There's not a single release among his 19 studio albums that does not have at least a half-dozen eye openers, songs that play with language and emotions and tell stories in a rarefied way.

SXSW: John Hiatt, more

By opening his Thursday (3/18) afternoon set with “Perfectly Good Guitar,” John Hiatt set a tone for the hour he would spend onstage at New West's SXSW party at the Belmont.

Lyle Lovett lines up more acoustic shows with John Hiatt

Lyle Lovett has rolled out another series of joint acoustic dates with blues-rock veteran John Hiatt, as well as a few of his own headlining shows early next year.

Etta James, Gov't Mule, John Hiatt Play Telluride

Etta James and the Roots Band will headline the 15th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Sept. 14, according to a press release.

Emmylou Harris maps tour for summer, fall

County/bluegrass veteran Emmylou Harris has mapped out a tour schedule for summer and fall as she looks forward to the September release of a five-disc career retrospective.

Lyle Lovett maps 2007 tour with Clark, Ely and Hiatt

Lyle Lovett has booked another round of shows with Guy Clark, Joe Ely and John Hiatt, a stretch of dates for the alt-country supergroup that stretches well into 2007.

John Hiatt maps another round of dates

Veteran singer/songwriter John Hiatt has added another round of dates to his itinerary in support of his most recent studio set, last year's "Master of Disaster."

Lovett plots more shows with Hiatt, Ely and Clark

Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Joe Ely and Guy Clark will again team up during a stretch of February dates that follow a round of headlining shows for the Lyle Lovett Acoustic Trio.

Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Joe Ely, Guy Clark team again

As they've done several times in the past, singer/songwriters Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Joe Ely and Guy Clark will hit the road next month for a round of co-headlining tour dates.
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