'Warming up to the Ice Age' at 40

What follows in an excerpt from “Adios to California,” Chapter 9 of Have A Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story. You can pick up a copy here or wherever you buy books, although I urge you to support your local bookstore whenever possible.

Riding With the King is the album most representative of where Hiatt would be headed musically over the rest of his career. At the time, however, critics were lukewarm at best, with David Fricke stating in his three-star review for Rolling Stone that it was “a goo...