New John Hiatt Album With Jerry Douglas Band "Leftover Feelings” - May 21, 2021*

This looks (and sounds) good:

JOHN HIATT WITH THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND TO RELEASE LEFTOVER FEELINGS | Nashville, Tennessee | Country Music Hall of Fame

 

Very interested in this.

 

Cool!

 

from 'warming up to the ice age' to 'perfectly good guitar' the man could do wrong by my standards......since then it just hasn't been the same.

i guess my tastes went one way and his music went a different way

 

Looking forward to this.

Thanks for posting!

 

Thanks for this!
So are these mostly new songs? The “lead” track is a remake from Hiatt’s “Tiki Bar” album, and there’s also an obscure b-side from the Perfectly Good Guitar era. But are the rest new Hiatt songs, or are there covers mixed in? Would there be any songs written by Douglas here?

Seems odd to me to lead with a re-recording of a 20-year old tune.

 

Thanks for the new album news. New album news is always great news, and even more so when several of your favorite musicians are involved.

Looks like an album of both new songs and remakes. I hope it's more new songs than remakes.

 

What’s the b-side track?

 

"Little Goodnight" - on the CD single of "Angel" from "Perfectly Good Guitar".

 

Same...except I go thru Walk On before I get off the train (plus Same Old Man).

 

That’s a fun track.

 

Yes! Very excited for this!

 

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Ahh, someone beat me to it!

 

I grabbed the wrong single up above. Wanted to get the UK "Angel", but discogs didn't have a pic of the back side, listing the other songs on the single (and I'm too lazy to do the whole "take a pic, upload to imgur, link to pic" thing to post it here.

Come to think of it, John has re-recorded old songs in the past, too.
Old Habits showed up on Perfectly Good Guitar, though I think the single version is far better. It's "rootsier" and sounds like it would fit on Bring The Family/Slow Turning, rather than the more polished sound he had on PGG.

That UK cd-single for Angel also featured "I'll Never Get Over You", which was not on PGG in the US (although it was in other countries). It was also a PGG single, with its own unique b-sides:

Then, oddly, he redid that one for Tiki Bar, where it was AGAIN an A-side, with some live b-side rarities.

He's also redone the occasional track for various compilations albums, too, so I guess it's par for the course for him.

 

I couldn't agree with you more on the single version of Old Habits... I wish I still had this. It has a brilliant drum track and it is just an all-round better version.

 

Cool post! I’d never known about this version; need to get a copy now.

 

I have it on the Stolen Moments (UK?) cd single. It was also on the US cassingle (!) as the flip of Child of the Wild Blue Yonder and may have appeared elsewhere too (you might check discogs from this rough era).

 

Phew! That story about “Light of the Burning Sun” - I’m in.

 

How about that; somewhere in my collection I have that cassingle (but can’t recall ever playing it)!

 

Great news and nice to hear a different approach. Looking forward to this.

 

Yeah, I knew about his previous wife's suicide, but I don't think I'd heard that about his brother. Yikes.

I've met him briefly after a couple of shows, but never thought to ask an intelligent question of the man. If I ever do again, I'd like to ask him about his "demos" (or outtakes, I'm not sure which term is right here). He has a TON of them. I follow some big-name acts (Solo Beatles, Dylan, Elton, etc.) with extensive back catalogs and large amounts of "rarities", but I also closely follow some other acts who have lots of unreleased/rare material. A couple of them floor me by how many completely unreleased songs are "out there" and Hiatt is one of them.

Many years ago, somewhere (maybe on a Yahoo Hiatt group?) someone distributed a set of demos of John's. It's 79 tracks long, spread over four cds, with only 4-5 songs/disc that he ever actually released, as far as I can tell. It seems something like this would be "easy money" for him: the recordings already exist, just put out a limited pressing (or even - gasp - downloads!) to get the material into the hands of more fans. That probably only scratches the surface of what he has done, too. It was one of only two times when I was so overwhelmed by the amount of "new" material, that I just couldn't process it in my mind (the other being when I found out Lana Del Rey has like 150 or more unreleased songs - and that was when she only had about four albums to her name). I look at the list of songs, and only a handful resonate. Sound quality left something to be desired as I recall, and certainly not all the material was top-shelf. But when I see him do things like re-record old songs ('Train to Birmingham" was on some semi-recent album), I wish he'd focus on doing something with his mass unreleased back catalog.

So pester John about that, everyone, next time you run in to him!

 

I'm in on this one. That's a great combo.

 

Hot stuff! Great combo.