Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
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| Released | August 2, 2011 | |||
| Studio | Ben's Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
| Length | 51:08 | |||
| Label | New West | |||
| Producer | Kevin Shirley | |||
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Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's twentieth album, released in 2010. It was produced by Kevin Shirley, and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns was released by New West on August 2, 2011.[1][2][3] The album debuted, and peaked at No. 59 on the Billboard 200 chart.[4][5] "Damn This Town" was released as a single in July 2011.[2]
All of the songs on the album were written by Hiatt. "I Love That Girl" was written about his wife.[6] "Detroit Made" was covered by the Detroit-born Bob Seger on 2014's Ride Out. "When I heard the John Hiatt song," Seger recalled, "I downloaded it, put it in my car and drove around and sang harmony parts. And, of course, the subject matter's a no-brainer because we all love cars in Michigan."[7] The song 'When New York Had Her Heart Broke" was written in Philadelphia on September 13, 2001. The song is about the September 11 attacks that happened in New York City.[2]
Critical reception
The album was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on eleven reviews.[8]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 73/100[9] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [10] |
| American Songwriter | [11] |
| Chicago Tribune | [12] |
| Classic Rock | [13] |
| Robert Christgau |  [14] |
| Rolling Stone | [15] |
| PopMatters | 8/10[16] |
| Under The Radar | [17] |
AllMusic's Mark Deming says that the album is a "more polished and ambitious affair than Hiatt has delivered in years," adding, "Hiatt's craft is still potent, while his singing hasn't been this effective in years."[1] Frank Valish of Under The Radar says the album is a "solid addition to Hiatt’s recent catalog, but often times it seems to want for more."[18] Amanda Rigell of Isthmus writes "The best moments are when that voice betrays ragged edges, coming out in a rusty growl, then floating up to a clear, heartbreaking high note. The songs walk a strange line between menacing regret and sentimental hopefulness, and Hiatt's voice does the same. It's rare that a singer can make me scroll back on a track to hear a single phrase a second time, but I find myself wanting to hear lines again before the song was over."[19]
