John Hiatt

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Image:JohnHiattSlowTurning.jpg John Hiatt (born August 20 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American musician with a growing following, who gets airplay on alternative radio stations. He has played a variety of styles, including New Wave, rock and roll, blues and country. Though he has achieved modest mainstream fame as a performing and recording artist since he debuted as a solo artist in 1974, Hiatt's songs have been covered by Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Nick Lowe, the Neville Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Three Dog Night, Dr. Feelgood, Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson, B. B. King with Eric Clapton, Paula Abdul, and Mandy Moore. His first album to chart at all was Bring the Family (1987). He continues to gain fame as a respected songwriter and performer into the present.

Contents 1 Career 2 Discography 3 Singles 4 External links

Career

John Hiatt started his musical career in Indianapolis, Indiana as a teenager. He played in a variety of local clubs, most notably the Hummingbird. Hiatt played with a variety of bands, one of which was The Four Fifths.

Hiatt moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he got a job as a songwriter for the Tree-Music Publishing Company. Hiatt, who was unable to read or write scores, had to record all 250 songs he wrote for the company. Hiatt wrote the song, Sure As I'm Sitting Here, which performed by Three Dog Night rose to number 16 on the Billboard chart.

Hiatt meanwhile began playing with a band, White Ducks, which recorded an album, In Season, in 1972. Hiatt performed with both the White Ducks, and solo in a variety of clubs around Nashville. Hiatt met Don Ellis of Epic Records in 1973, and received a record deal, releasing his first single We Make Spirt later that year. In 1974 Hiatt released Hangin' Around the Observatory, which was a critical success and a commercial failure. A year later Overcoats was released, and when it failed to sell, Epic dropped Hiatt. Hiatt would suffer a similar fate with his next two labels, both MCA Records and Geffen Records dropped him.

While working with Geffen, Hiatt received some praise however, he had been called "the American Elvis Costello" by some. Hiatt even recorded a duet with Costello, a cover of the Spinners' song, Living A Little, Laughing A Little, which appeared on Warming Up to the Ice Age.

Hiatt finally came into success in 1987, when he released his first big hit, Bring the Family. For the album Hiatt had a backing band consisting of Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner. Shortly after its release, Bob Dylan covered Hiatt's song, The Usual which had appeared on Warming Up to the Ice Age.

His songs have been featured on the soundtracks of Dawson's Creek and Raising Helen.

Discography

• Hangin' Around the Observatory, Epic Records, 1974.
• Overcoats, Epic Records, 1975.
• Slug Line, MCA Records, 1979.
• Two Bit Monsters, MCA Records, 1980.
• All of a Sudden, Geffen Records, 1982.
• Riding With the King, Geffen Records, 1983.
• Warming Up to the Ice Age, Geffen Records, 1985.
• Bring the Family, A&M Records, 1987. #107 US
• Slow Turning, A&M Records, 1988. #98 US
• Y'all Caught?, (compilation 1979-1985), Geffen Records, 1989.
• Stolen Moments, A&M Records, 1990. #61 US

1. Real Fine Love
2. Seven Little Indians
3. Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder
4. Back Of My Mind
5. Stolen Moments
6. Bring Back Your Love To Me
7. The Rest Of The Dream
8. Thirty Years Of Tears
9. Rock Back Billy
10. Listening To Old Voices
11. Through Your Hands
12. One Kiss

• Little Village, (supergroup with Nick Lowe, Ry Cooder, and Jim Keltner), Reprise Records, 1992. #66 US

1. Solar Sex Panel
2. The Action
3. Inside Job
4. Big Love
5. Take Another Look
6. Do You Want My Job
7. Don't Go Away Mad
8. Fool Who Knows
9. She Runs Hot
10. Don't Think About Her When You're Trying To Drive
11. Don't Bug Me Whil I'm Working

• Perfectly Good Guitar, A&M Records, 1993. #47 US

1. Something Wild
2. Straight Outta Time
3. Perfectly Good Guitar
4. Buffalo River Home
5. Angel
6. Blue Telescope
7. Cross My Fingers
8. Old Habits Are Hard To Break
9. The Wreck Of a Barbie Ferrari
10. When You Hold Me Tight
11. Permanent Hurt
12. Loving A Hurricane

• Hiatt Comes Alive at Buddokan? A&M Records, 1994.

1. Through Your Hands
2. Real Fine Love
3. Memphis In The Mean Time
4. Icy Blue Heart
5. Paper Thin
6. Angel Eyes
7. Your Dad Did
8. Have A Little Faith In Me
9. Drive South
10. Thing Called Love
11. Perfectly Good Guitar
12. Feels Like Rain
13. Tennessee Plates
14. Lipstick Sunset
15. Slow Turning

• Walk On, Capitol Records, 1995. #48 US

1. Cry Love
2. You Must Go
3. Walk On
4. Good As She Could Be
5. The River Knows Your Name
6. Native Son
7. Dust Down A Country Road
8. Ethylene
9. I Can't Wait
10. Shredding The Document
11. Wrote It Down And Burned It
12. Your Love Is My Rest
13. Friend of Mine

• Little Head, Capitol Records, 1997. #111 US

1. Little Head
2. Pirate Radio
3. My Sweet Girl
4. Feelin' Again
5. Graduated
6. Sure Pinocchio
7. Runaway
8. Woman Sawed In Half
9. Far As We Go
10. After All This Time

• Crossing Muddy Waters, Vanguard Records, 2000. #110 US

1. Lincoln Town
2. Crossing Muddy Waters
3. What Do We Do Now
4. Only The Song Survives
5. Lift Up Every Stone
6. Take It Down
7. Gone
8. Take It Back
9. Mr. Stanley
10. God's Golden Eyes
11. Before I Go

• The Tiki Bar is Open, Vanguard Records, 2001. #89 US, #4 US Indie

1. Everybody Went Low
2. Hangin' Around Here
3. All The Lilacs In Ohio
4. My Old Friend
5. I Know A Place
6. Something Broken
7. Rock Of Your Love
8. I'll Never Get Over You
9. The Tiki Bar Is Open
10. Come Home To You
11. Farther Stars

• Beneath This Gruff Exterior, New West Records, 2003.

1. Uncommon Connection
2. How Bad's The Coffee
3. Nagging Dark
4. My Baby Blue
5. My Dog And Me
6. Almost Fed Up With The Blues
7. Circle Back
8. Window On The World
9. Missing Pieces
10. Fly Back Home
11. The Last Time
12. The Most Unoriginal Sin

• It'll Come to You: The Songs of John Hiatt (compilation of cover versions of John Hiatt songs), Vanguard Records, 2003.

1. Bonnie Raitt - Thing Called Love
2. Willie Nelson - The Most Unoriginal Sin
3. Rodney Crowell - She Loves The Jerk
4. Rosanne Cash - The Way We Make A Broken Heart
5. Linda Ronstadt - When We Ran
6. B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Riding With The King
7. Emmylou Harris - Icy Blue Heart
8. Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit - She Don't Love Nobody
9. Freddy Fender - Across The Borderline
10. Buddy Guy - Feels Like Rain
11. Patty Griffin - Take It Down
12. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise - It'll Come To You
13. Buddy & Julie Miller - Paper Thin

• Master of Disaster, New West Records, 2005. #126 US, #10 US Indie

1. Master of Disaster
2. Howlin' Down The Cumberland
3. Thunderbird
4. Wintertime Blues
5. When My Love Crosses Over
6. Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It
7. Ain't Ever Goin' Back
8. Cold River
9. Find You At Last
10. Old School
11. Back On The Corner

• Live From Austin, TX, New West Records, 2005

1. Icy Blue Heart
2. Loving a Hurricane
3. When You Hold Me Tight
4. Your Dad Did
5. Straight Outta Time
6. Memphis in the Meantime
7. Something Wild
8. Have a Little Faith in Me
9. Buffalo River Home
10. Thing Called Love
11. Angel
12. Tennessee Plates
13. Slow Turning
14. Perfectly Good Guitar

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions				Album
		US Hot 100	US Modern Rock	US Mainstream Rock	UK
1987	"Thank You Girl"	-	-	#27	-	Bring The Family
1988	"Slow Turning"	-	#22	#8	-	Slow Turning
1988	"Paper Thin"	-	-	#18	-	Slow Turning
1990	"Child of the Wild Blue Yonder"	-	#24	#17	-	Stolen Moments
1992	"She Runs Hot" (w/ Little Village)	-	-	#17	-	Little Village
1992	"Solar Sex Panel" (w/ Little Village)	-	-	#35	-	Little Village
1993	"Perfectly Good Guitar"	-	-	#16	-	Perfectly Good Guitar
1993	"Something Wild"	-	-	#31	-	Perfectly Good Guitar

External links

• Bio at Official Site
• John Hiatt's career on A&M Records with gallery, international discography
• John Hiatt Tabsde:John Hiatt

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