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John Hiatt - All of a Sudden Audio CD

A fair review of the John Hiatt "All of a Sudden" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all John Hiatt reviews here, or go back to the John Hiatt tabs.

John Hiatt Band: John Hiatt
Title: All of a Sudden
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Release Date: 2004-03-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Look for Love 2: This Secret Life 3: Overnight Story 4: Forever Yours 5: Some Fun Now 6: Walking Dead 7: I Could Use an Angel 8: Getting Excited 9: Doll Hospital 10: Something Happens 11: Marianne 12: My Edge of the Razor

A Massively Underrated Album
I have my reasons, one of the main ones being that I think this was the first album where Hiatt found his voice as a singer. As much as this record gets slagged by fans of John Hiatt, I hold my ground on gracing it with a five star rating. The two excellent albums prior to this ("Two Bit Monsters" and "Slug Line") were certainly nervy affairs, and that rough kind of vocal drew some of the "American Elvis Costello" comparisons.

If that was the case, then "All Of A Sudden" was Geffen records' attempt to unleash an Americanized "Armed Forces. " The wordplay was certainly as wickedly funny and acidically ironic as Costello's or Graham Parker's, and the CD bookends with a pair of stone classics in "I Look For Love" and "My Edge of the Razor. " The problem was, Elvis was up to "Imperial Bedroom" the year "All Of A Sudden" came out and Tony Visconti's "use every synth in the room" production didn't do much to enhance a stellar batch of songs. It did, however, bring out the rocker in Hiatt. With the exception of his latter work on A&M, Hiatt had never played this hard. More to the point, his singing suddenly took on a less affected quality. While it may have taken him another three albums to find his musical voice with "Bring The Family," it's my humble opinion that this was the album where Hiatt took his first major leap from songwriter to a performer, and the also commercially ignored follow-up, "Riding With The King," were the records that set up his crowning achievements.


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