John Hiatt - new album and first UK shows in four years

JOHN HIATT, who last year was the recipient of a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' by the Americana Music Association, and was also an inductee to the Nashville Songwriters Association, is to release a brand new album, entitled The Open Road, on the New West Records label, on Monday, March 8th 2010.

The Open Road comprises eleven all-new tracks, recorded by Hiatt and his seasoned Road band, featuring Kenny Blevins (drums), Patrick O'Hearn (bass) and Doug Lancio (guitars). It's claimed to be Hiatt's most energetic outing in years – "2008's excellent Same Old Man set was a more reflective affair, but The Open Road powers along with the vigour of 'Perfectly Good Guitar' days".
Looking at life through a rear view mirror was the inspiration for The Open Road, the rockin' songs sizzle with the heat from a two lane blacktop on a summer's day. It's a set that gives the term 'Garage Rock' a new meaning. "All the other years, my songs are about coming home", Hiatt says. But within these eleven crackling new songs, including Haulin', and the title track, home is never the destination.

Hiatt will also be playing two shows in February:
The Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on Monday, February 15th
The Waterfront in Belfast on Tuesday, February 16th.