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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: John Hiatt's latest album was produced by the singer-songwriter and features his daughter on two songs.

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Love You Again
Love You Again I Was Speeding Through The Dark I Didn't Know How Far It Can All Run Away With You Sometimes In An Empty Box Car You Were Trying To... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    It finds Hiatt's country-tinged songwriting and mordant sense of humor in top form. [6 June 2008, p.119]
  2. His latest is one of his best in recent years.
  3. On his 19th studio album, John Hiatt has rediscovered his muse--more wrinkled and greyer than before, but central to a musically unvarnished song cycle tracing the ups and downs of a long-term relationship.... Two of these songs rank with Hiatt’s best work.
  4. Same Old Man shows he's learned a lot since then, and you can hear the lessons shining through in this music.
  5. Same Old Men could use more wry rockers like "Old Days" and fewer love songs that veer uncomfortably into the middle of the road, but otherwise, Hiatt threatens to give growing old a good name.
  6. Hiatt’s Same Old Man says it all in the title--he’s the same songwriter he’s been for years, and his formula is tried and true. The only thing is, his formula becomes closer to perfect with each and every test.
  7. Uncut
    60
    Same Old Man won't upend the form-book, but it's an agreeably unpretentious addition to the Indiana-born veteran's canon. [June 2008, p.93]

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