JOHN HIATT

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1

Hangin' Around The Observatory

--/74

2

Overcoats

--/75

3

Slug Line

08/79

4

Two Bit Monsters

10/80

5

All Of A Sudden

04/82

6

Riding With The King

04/84

7

Warming Up To The Ice Age

09/86

8

Bring The Family

05/87

9

Slow Turning

08/88

10

Stolen Moments

06/70

11

Perfectly Good Guitar

09/93

12

Hiatt Comes Alive At Budokan

12/94

13

Walk On

12/95

14

Little Head

06/97

15

Crossing Muddy Waters

10/00

16

The Tiki Bar Is Open

09/01

17

Beneath This Gruff Exterior

05/03

18

Master Of Disaster

06/05

19

Live From Austin, TX

11/05

20

Live At The Hiatt

11/06

21

Same Old Man

05/08

22

The Open Road

03/10

23

Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns

08/11

24

Mystic Pinball

09/12


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1) HANGIN' AROUND THE OBSERVATORY

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Maybe Baby, Say You Do
Whistles In My Ears
Sure As I'm Sittin' Here
Rose
Hangin' Around The Observatory

Full Moon
Wild Eyed Gypsies
It's All Right With Me
Little Blue Song For You
Ocean


Hayward Bishop
Pam Clarke
James Clemmons
Paul Easley
Debbie Friedman
John Hiatt
Shane Keister
Charles Meyers
James Moon
Ted Reynolds
Marcia Routh
Doug Yankus

Producer:

Drums
Vocals
Vocals
Vocals
Vocals
Vocals, Guitar
Keyboards
Vocals
Drums
Bass
Vocals
Guitar

Glen Spreen

2) OVERCOATS

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10.

One More Time
Smiling In The Rain
I'm Tired Of Your Stuff
Distance
Down Home

Overcoats
I Want Your Love Inside Of Me
I Killed An Ant With My Guitar
Motorboat To Heaven
The Lady Of The Night


Anita Baugh
Samuel Boghossian
Dianne Davidson
Jesse Ehrlich
Bobby Emmons
Gene Estes
Josh Graves
Allan Harshman
John Hiatt
Irving Kane
Shane Keister

Larry Londin
Tracy Nelson
Billy Puitt

Norman Ray
Ted Reynolds
Sadie
George Tidwell

Producer:

Backing Vocals
Viola
Backing Vocals
Cello
Organ
Marimba
Dobro
Viola
Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Piano
Trombone
Piano, Synthesiser,
Fender Rhodes
Drums, Percussion
Backing Vocals
Clarinet, Flute, Recorder,
Soprano & Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bass, Kabassa
Backing Vocals
Trumpet

Glen Spreen

3) SLUG LINE

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3.
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12.

You Used To Kiss The Girls
The Negroes Were Dancing
Slug Line
Madonna Road
(No More) Dancin' In The Street
Long Night

The Night That Kenny Died
Radio Girl
You're My Love Interest
Take Off Your Uniform
Sharon's Got A Drugstore
Washable Ink


Todd Cochran
Gerry Conway
Bruce Gary
John Hiatt
Veyler Hildebrand
Thom Mooney
Jon Paris
BJ Wilson
Doug Yankus

Producer:

Piano, Organ
Drums
Drums
Guitar, Vocals
Bass
Drums
Bass, Guitar
Drums
Guitar

Denny Bruce

4) TWO BIT MONSTERS

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6.

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10.
11.

Back To Normal
Down In Front
I Spy (For The FBI)
Pink Bedroom
Good Girl, Bad World
Face The Nation

Cop Party
Back To The War
It Hasn't Happened Yet
String Pull Job
New Numbers


Howard Epstein
John Hiatt
Shane Keister
Darrell Verdusco

Producer:

Bass, Vocals
Vocals, Guitar
Piano, Organ
Drums, Vocals

Denny Bruce, John Hiatt

5) ALL OF A SUDDEN

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3.
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6.

7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

I Look For Love
This Secret Life
Overnight Story
Forever Yours
Some Fun Now
The Walking Dead

I Could Use An Angel
Getting Excited
Doll Hospital
Something Happens
Marianne
My Edge Of The Razor


Jesse Harms
John Hiatt
James Rolleston
Darrell Verdusco

Producer:

Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Vocals, Guitar
Bass, Backing Vocals
Drums, Backing Vocals

Tony Visconti

6) RIDING WITH THE KING

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2.
3.
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6.

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10.
11.
12.

I Don't Even Try
Death By Misadventure
Girl On A String
Lovers Will
She Loves The Jerk
Say It With Flowers

Riding With The King
You May Already Be A Winner
Love Like Blood
The Love That Harms
Book Lovers
Falling Up


Martin Belmont
Paul Carrack

John Hiatt
Bobby Irwin
Nick Lowe
Scott Matthews



Producer:

Guitar (Tracks 7-12)
Keyboards, Backing Vocals
(Tracks 7-12)
Vocals, Guitar
Drums (Tracks 7-12)
Bass, Backing Vocals (Tracks 7-12)
Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Backing Vocals (Tracks 1-6)

Nick Lowe (Tracks 7-12),
Ron Nagel (Tracks 1-6),
Scott Matthews (Tracks 1-6)

7) WARMING UP TO THE ICE AGE

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3.
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5.

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7.
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9.
10.

The Usual
The Crush
When We Ran
She Said The Same Things To Me
Living A Little, Laughing A Little

Zero House
Warming Up To The Ice Age
I'm A Real Man
Number One Honest Game
I Got A Gun

Original LP


CD Issue

Anita Baugh
Jesse Boyce
Elvis Costello
Dianne Davidson
Chuck Findley
Mac Gayden
Jon Goin
Gary Grant
Willie Green Jr
Jerry Hey
John Hiatt
Kim Hutchcroft
Shane Keister
Bobby King
Larrie Londin
Randy McCormick
Tracy Nelson
Bill Reichenbach
Larry Williams
Frieda Woody

Producer:

Backing Vocals (Tracks 5,9)
Bass, Guitar (Track 2)
Vocals (Track 5)
Backing Vocals (Tracks 5,9)
Trombone (Tracks 1,2)
Guitar (Track 4)
Guitar (Tracks 5-7)
Trumpet (Tracks 1,2)
Bass Vocals (Tracks 2,4)
Trumpet (Tracks 1,2)
Vocals, Guitar
Saxophone (Tracks 1,2)
Keyboards (Track 5)
Vocals (Track 2)
Drums
Keyboards
Backing Vocals (Tracks 5,9)
Trombone (Tracks 1,2)
Saxophone (Tracks 1,2)
Vocals (Track 4)

Norbert Putnam

8) BRING THE FAMILY

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10.

Memphis In The Meantime
Alone In The Dark
Thing Called Love
Lipstick Sunset
Have A Little Faith In Me

Thank You Girl
Tip Of My Tongue
Your Dad Did
Stood Up
Learning How To Love You

US Issue


UK Issue

Ry Cooder

John Hiatt
Jim Keltner
Nick Lowe

Producer:

Guitar, Sitar (Track 3),
Harmony Vocals (Track 3)
Vocals, Guitar, Piano (Track 5)
Drums
Bass, Harmony Vocals (Track 10)

John Chelew

9) SLOW TURNING

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12.

Drive South
Trudy And Dave
Tennessee Plates
Icy Blue Heart
Sometime Other Than Now
Georgia Rae

Ride Along
Slow Turning
It'll Come To You
Is Anybody There?
Paper Thin
Feels Like Rain


Ken Blevins
Ashley Cleveland
John Hiatt
James Hooker
Sonny Landreth
Bernie Leadon

Dennis Locorriere
David Ranson

Producer:

Drums, Tambourine
Backing Vocals
Vocals, Guitar, Electric Piano
Organ
Guitar
Guitar, Mandocello, Mandolin,
Banjo
Backing Vocals
Bass

Glyn Johns

10) STOLEN MOMENTS

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12.

Real Fine Love
Seven Little Indians
Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder
Back Of My Mind
Stolen Moments
Bring Back Your Love To Me

The Rest Of The Dream
Thirty Years Of Tears
Rock Back Billy
Listening To Old Voices
Through Your Hands
One Kiss


Ashley Cleveland
Pat Donaldson
Mike Finnigan
Mac Gayden
Willie Green
Richie Hayward

Mike Henderson
John Hiatt


Ethan Johns



David Kemper
Bobby King
Michael Landau
Chuck Leavell
Bill Payne

Karen Peris
Michael Porter
Russ Taff

Wix


Producer:

Backing Vocals (Tracks 1,3,5)
Bass (Tracks 1,3,5-12)
Backing Vocals (Tracks 3,7)
Guitar (Tracks 8,11)
Backing Vocals (Track 6)
Percussion (Track 2),
Drums (Tracks 4,6,10)
Guitar (Tracks 1,7,10)
Vocals, Guitar, Piano (Track 3),
Keyboards (Track 7),
Synthesiser (Track 10)
Drums (Tracks 1,3,7,8,12),
Guitar (Tracks 1,5,8,10),
Mandolin (Track 2),
Percussion (Track 11)
Drums (Tracks 5,11)
Backing Vocals (Track 6)
Guitar (Tracks 2-4,11,12)
Organ (Track 5)
Synthesiser (Track 4),
Piano (Track 6)
Vocals (Track 11)
Drums (Track 9)
Backing Vocals
(Tracks 1,3,5,7,10,12)
Synthesiser (Tracks 3,6,8,12),
Synth Bass (Track 4)

Glyn Johns

11) PERFECTLY GOOD GUITAR

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13.

Something Wild
Straight Outta Time
Perfectly Good Guitar
Buffalo River Home
Angel
Blue Telescope
Cross My Fingers
Old Habits
The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari
When You Hold Me Tight
Permanent Hurt
Loving A Hurricane
I'll Never Get Over You *

* only included on the European issue.


John Hiatt
Dennis Locorriere
Brian MacLeod
Shaun Mariani
Jean McClain
Ravi Oli
John Pierce
Studio Sausages
Matt Wallace
Michael Ward

Producer:

Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ
Backing Vocals
Drums, Percussion
Backing Vocals
Backing Vocals
Sitar
Bass
Backing Vocals
Guitar
Guitar

Matt Wallace

12) HIATT COMES ALIVE AT BUDOKAN

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15.

Through Your Hands
Real Fine Love
Memphis In The Meantime
Icy Blue Heart
Paper Thin
Angel Eyes
Your Dad Did
Have A Little Faith In Me
Drive South
Thing Called Love
Perfectly Good Guitar
Feels Like Rain
Tennessee Plates
Lipstick Sunset
Slow Turning


Davey Faragher
John Hiatt
Michael Urbano
Michael Ward

Producer:

Bass, Backing Vocals
Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Drums
Guitar, Backing Vocals

Michael Urbano, Matt Wallace

 

Despite the title the album was actually recorded live at:
Track 1: at State Theater, Portland, Maine, USA on 21 May 1994
Track 2: at Freemont Theater, San Luis Obispo, California, USA on 30 March 1994
Tracks 3,5: at Red Mile Racetrack, Lexington, Kentucky, USA on 30 May 1994
Track 4: at Schuba's, Chicago, Illinois, USA on 26 February 1994
Tracks 6,15: at State Theater, Portland, Maine, USA on 20 May 1994
Track 7: at Strand Theater, Providence, Rhode Island, USA on 25 May 1994
Tracks 8,9: at Chance, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA on 27 May 1994
Track 10: at Stone Balloon, Newark, Delaware, USA on 18 May 1994
Tracks 11,12: at Toad's Place, New Heaven, Connecticut, USA on 28 May 1994
Track 13: at Terrace Ballroom, Austin, Texas, USA on 8 March 1994
Track 14: at Von Braun Civic Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA on 16 May 1994

13) WALK ON

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Cry Love
You Must Go
Walk On
Good As She Could Be
The River Knows Your Name
Native Son
Dust Down A Country Road
Ethylene
I Can't Wait
Shredding The Document
Wrote It Down And Burned It
Your Love Is My Rest
Friend Of Mine
Mile High

Track 14 was hidden and only
included on the European issue


Davey Faragher
Lisa Haley
John Hiatt
David Immerglück

Gary Louris
Mark Olson
Bonnie Raitt
Benmont Tench

Michael Urbano

Producer:

Bass, Backing Vocals
Violin (Tracks 3,5)
Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Guitar, Lap & Pedal Steel Guitar, Backing Vocals (Tracks 7,8)
Backing Vocals (Track 2)
Backing Vocals (Track 2)
Backing Vocals (Track 9)
Piano & Harpsichord (Track 10),
Pump Organ (Track 5)
Drums, Percussion

Davey Faragher, Don Smith

14) LITTLE HEAD

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10.

Little Head
Pirate Radio
My Sweet Girl
Feelin' Again
Graduated
Sure Pinocchio
Runaway
Woman Sawed In Half
Far As We Go
After All This Time


Davey Faragher
Gary Ferguson
John Hiatt
Peter Holsapple
David Immerglück

Efrain Toro

Producer:

Bass
Drums
Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Organ
Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar, Dobro, Sitar
Percussion

Davey Faragher, John Hiatt

15) CROSSING MUDDY WATERS

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3.
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11.

Lincoln Town
Crossing Muddy Waters
What Do We Do Now
Only The Songs Survives
Lift Up Every Stone
Take It Down
Gone
Take It Back
Mr Stanley
God's Golden Eyes
Before I Go

US Issue


UK Issue

Davey Faragher


John Hiatt

David Immerglück


Producer:

Bass, Foot Stomping,
Metal Folding Chair, Tambourine,
Harmony Vocals
Guitar, National Resophonic, Harmonium, Vocals
Mandolin, Guitar, Harmony Vocals

 

16) THE TIKI BAR IS OPEN

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2.
3.
4.
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6.
7.
8.
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10.
11.

Everybody Went Low
Hangin' Round Here
All The Lilacs In Ohio
My Old Friend
I Know A Place
Something Broken
Rock Of Your Love
I'll Never Get Over You
The Tiki Bar Is Open
Come Home To You
Farther Stars

David Bianco
Kenneth Blevins
John Hiatt

Jay Joyce
Sonny Landreth
Julie Miller
New Reflections Men's Choir
Dave Ranson

Producer:

Piano (Track 9)
Drums, Percussion
Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Harmonica,
Mandolin, Harmonium
Guitar, Keyboards, Loops
Guitar
Backing Vocals (Tracks 3,7,11)
Backing Vocals (Track 9)

Bass

Jay Joyce

17) BENEATH THIS GRUFF EXTERIOR

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12.

Uncommon Connection
How Bad's The Coffee
The Nagging Dark
My Baby Blue
My Dog And Me
Almost Fed Up With The Blues
Circle Back
Window On The World
Missing Pieces
Fly Back Home
The Last Time
The Most Unoriginal Sin


Kenneth Blevins
John Hiatt
Bobby Keys
Sonny Landreth
Dave Ranson

Producer:

Drums, Backing Vocals
Vocals, Guitar
Baritone Saxophone
Guitar, Dobro, Backing Vocals
Bass

John Hiatt, Don Smith

18) MASTER OF DISASTER

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11.

Master Of Disaster
Howlin' Down The Cumberland
Thunderbird
Wintertime Blues
When My Love Crosses Over
Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It
Ain't Ever Goin' Back
Cold River
Find You At Last
Old School
Back On The Corner


Tommy Burroughs
Jeff Calloway
Cody Dickinson
Luther Dickinson
East Memphis Slim (aka Jim Dickinson)
John Hiatt
David Hood
Joe Sallmanberger
Jim Spake
Scott Thompson

Producer:

Violin
Trombone
Drums
Guitar
Keyboards

Guitar, Vocals
Bass
Tuba
Saxophone
Trumpet

Jim Dickinson

19) LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX

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3.
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14.

Icy Blue Heart
Loving A Hurricane
When You Hold Me Tight
Your Dad Did
Straight Outta Time
Memphis In The Meantime
Something Wild
Have A Little Faith In Me
Buffalo River Home
Thing Called Love
Angel
Tennessee Plates
Slow Turning
Perfectly Good Guitar

Recorded live for the Austin City Limits
TV show on 14 December 1993


Davey Faragher
John Hiatt
Michael Urbano
Michael Ward

Producer:

Bass, Vocals
Guitar, Vocals
Drums
Guitar, Vocals

Gary Briggs, Steve Gustafson, Terry Lickona, Cameron Strang

20) LIVE AT THE HIATT

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3.
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6.
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10.

Through Your Hands
Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder
Loving A Hurricane
When You Hold Me Tight
I Don't Even Try
Feels Like Rain
Something Wild
Perfectly Good Guitar
Slow Turning
Lipstick Sunset

Recorded live at The Forum, London,
England on 30 October 1993


Davey Faragher
John Hiatt
Michael Urbano
Michael Ward

Producer:

Bass, Vocals
Guitar, Vocals
Drums
Guitar, Vocals

Mike Ragogna

21) SAME OLD MAN

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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10.
11.

Old Days
Love You Again
On With You
Hurt My Baby
What Love Can Do
Ride My Pony
Cherry Red
Our Time
Two Hearts
Same Old Man
Let's Give This Love A Try


Kenneth Blevins
Luther Dickinson
John Hiatt
Lily Hiatt
Patrick O'Hearn

Producer:

Drums
Guitar, Resonator Guitar, Mandolin
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Harmonium
Backing Vocals
Bass

John Hiatt

22) THE OPEN ROAD

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11.

The Open Road
Haulin'
Go Down Swingin'
Like A Freight Train
My Baby
Homeland
Wonder Of Love
What Kind Of Man
Movin' On
Fireball Roberts
Carry You Back Home


Kenneth Blevins
John Hiatt
Doug Lancio
Patrick O'Hearn

Producer:

Drums
Vocals, Guitar
Guitar
Bass

John Hiatt

23) DIRTY JEANS AND MUDSLIDE HYMNS

 
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11.

LP One
Damn This Town
'til I Get My Lovin' Back
I Love That Girl
All The Way Under

Don't Wanna Leave You Now
Detroit Made
Hold On For Your Love

LP Two
Train To Birmingham
Down Around My Place
Adios To California
When New York Had Her Heart Broke


Kenneth Blevins
Doug Henthorn
John Hiatt
Doug Lancio
Patrick O'Hearn
Russ Pahl
Arlan Schierbaum
Reese Wynans



Producer:

Drums
Backing Vocals
Vocals, Guitar
Guitar, Mandolin, Hammertone
Bass
Pedal Steel Guitar
Keyboards
Organ (Track 9)
Jeff Bova & The Bovaland Orchestra

John Hiatt

24) MYSTIC PINBALL

 
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12.

LP One
We're Alright Now
Bite Marks
It All Comes Back Someday
Wood Chipper

My Business
I Just Don't Know What To Say
I Know How To Lose You
You're All The Reason I Need

LP Two
One Of Them Damn Days
No Wicked Grin
Give It Up
Blues Can't Even Find Me


Kenneth Blevins
John Hiatt
Doug Lancio
Patrick O'Hearn

Producer:

Drums
Vocals, Guitar
Guitar
Bass

John Hiatt, Kevin Shirley