John Hiatt's 'Terms Of My Surrender' Nominated for Best Americana Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards

Terms Of My Surrender, the latest chapter in Hiatt's prolific run of albums is nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the Best Americana Album category. The title track was also recognized with a nomination in the Best American Roots Song category.  

Terms Of My Surrender, which was released on New West Records, was masterfully produced by Hiatt's longtime guitarist Doug Lancio and was completely a band effort, with his current group, which he calls simply the Combo, a tight-yet-loose unit from years together on the road: Lancio on guitars, banjo and mandolin, Nathan Gehri on bass, Kenneth Blevins on drums, Brandon Young on background vocals and keyboards from John Coleman on some of the tracks.  

Hiatt's songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt ("Thing Called Love"), Emmylou Harris, Iggy Pop, Rosanne Cash (#1 country hit, "The Way We Make A Broken Heart"), the Jeff Healey Band ("Angel Eyes"), and even the cartoon bear band of Disney's film, The Country Bears. 

He earned a GRAMMY nomination for Crossing Muddy Waters, while B.B. King and Eric Clapton shared a GRAMMY for their album Riding With The King, the title track from which was a Hiatt composition. Hiatt has received his own star on Nashville's Walk of Fame, the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and was saluted at the Indiana Governor's Arts Awards. The rock-country-blues fusion album Bring The Family - performed with Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner - was Hiatt's first album to chart on the top Billboard 200, and featured his first single entry on the mainstream rock chart with "Thank You Girl". He was subsequently named Best Male Vocalist in Rolling Stone's annual Critics Poll. In the last few years Hiatt has released Same Old Man, The Open Road, Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns and Mystic Pinball all to critical acclaim.

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