Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns by John Hiatt

Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns, John Hiatt's twentieth album, came out on New West in 2011, cut in Nashville with Kevin Shirley producing and every song written by Hiatt himself. It's a road-worn rock record with the dust still on it: grainy guitars, rootsy grooves and that weathered voice, cracked in all the right places.

The songs cover a lot of miles. "I Love That Girl" is about his wife. "Detroit Made" is a car song good enough that Bob Seger, Detroit-born himself, covered it on Ride Out in 2014. "When New York Had Her Heart Broke" dates back to September 13, 2001, when Hiatt wrote it in Philadelphia about the attacks on New York. "Damn This Town" went out as a single that July and is the song that reached the countdowns. Critics were mostly kind, and it landed at number 59 on the Billboard 200.

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