Terms Of My Surrender - John Hiatt

Personnel: John Hiatt (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Doug Lancio (guitar, banjo, mandolin); Jon Coleman (keyboards); Kenneth Blevins (drums, percussion); Brandon Young (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Doug Lancio. Recording information: Studio G, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Michael Wilson . John Hiatt has always had one foot in the blues, and he's decided to wade waist deep into the music on 2014's Terms of my Surrender. There isn't a lot of 12-bar on this album if you're a purist about such things, but the tone of this music is smoky and rich like a Deep South BBQ joint, which suits the gruff texture of Hiatt's voice just fine, and the rootsy mood of the songs is reinforced by the production and arrangements. Hiatt primarily plays acoustic guitar on Terms of my Surrender, which cuts back the volume of these performances but adds a lot to the slinky middle-of-the-night groove of the music; Doug Lancio, lead guitarist with Hiatt's road band the Combo, produced this album, and the result