The Open Road (album)
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| The Open Road | ||||
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| Released | March 2, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | June–August 2009 | |||
| Length | 47:53 | |||
| Label | New West[1] | |||
| Producer | John Hiatt | |||
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The Open Road is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's nineteenth album, released in 2010. The album peaked at number 72 on the Billboard 200.
The Open Road was released by New West on March 2, 2010.[2] It debuted, and peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard 200 chart.[3][4]
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 71, based on seven reviews.[5]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100[6] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [7] |
| American Songwriter | [8] |
| Creative Loafing | [9] |
| The Irish Times | [10] |
| PopMatters | 6/10[11] |
| Record Collector | [12] |
PopMatters writes "there will always be latent flight in a rambler like Hiatt, and it’s this spirit that keeps Hiatt going. If he keeps making records as solid as The Open Road, that spirit is something to celebrate."[13] Terry Staunton of Record Collector calls the album "his strongest for some time," adding "While not a wholesale return to form, it’s as if he’s cloning the more satisfying parts of his back catalogue."[14] Doug Collette of Glide Magazine calls the album a "loose, very spontaneous affair, much like its predecessor Same Old Man. But unlike that prior album, where the focus remained on the songs, the material on this new album is the means to the end of making music, during the course of which Hiatt himself is an integral member of a highly-skilled band."[15]
