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John Hiatt’s sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt’s songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night, and the Neville Brothers, yet it took him 13 years to reach the charts himself. Of course, it nearly took him that long to find his own style. Hiatt began his solo career in 1974, and over the next decade he ran through a number of different styles from rock & roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock & roll, country, blues, and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family. Though the album didn’t set the charts on fire, it became his first album to reach the charts, and several of the songs on the record became hits for other artists, including Raitt and Milsap. Following its success, Hiatt became a reliable hit songwriter for other artists, and he developed a strong cult following that continued to gain strength into the mid-’90s.
While he was growing up in his hometown of Indianapolis, IN, John Hiatt played in a number of garage bands. Initially, he was inspired by the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and the music of those two artists would echo strongly throughout his work. Out of all the bar bands he played with in the late ’60s, a group called the White Ducks was the one that received the most attention. Following his high-school graduation, he moved to Nashville at the age of 18, where he landed a job as a songwriter for Tree Publishing. For the next several years, he wrote and performed at local clubs and hotels.
While he was growing up in his hometown of Indianapolis, IN, John Hiatt played in a number of garage bands. Initially, he was inspired by the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and the music of those two artists would echo strongly throughout his work. Out of all the bar bands he played with in the late ’60s, a group called the White Ducks was the one that received the most attention. Following his high-school graduation, he moved to Nashville at the age of 18, where he landed a job as a songwriter for Tree Publishing. For the next several years, he wrote and performed at local clubs and hotels.
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Bring The Family
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Slow Turning
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Crossing Muddy Waters
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Perfectly Good Guitar
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Have A Little Faith In Me
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Memphis in the Meantime
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Perfectly Good Guitar
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Cry Love
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Feels Like Rain
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Thing Called Love
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Slow Turning
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Drive South
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Tennessee Plates
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Alone in the Dark
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Lipstick Sunset
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Buffalo River Home
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Your Dad Did
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Riding with the King
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Shoutbox
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ChrisJHutchins wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrfiYAvdUuQ&feature=channel
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dancingabout wrote:
Happy Birthday Mr. Hiatt.
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Lisser18 wrote:
"Cry Love" is wonderfully epic! Beyond words!
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divinemissh wrote:
My parents brought me up on this guy, Why isn't he more famous I don't get it?
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StinkySQL wrote:
o - & "Bring The Family" is top notch. They tend to stick with you so that you are still having them sung to you hours after you turned off the electronics...
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StinkySQL wrote:
@snorty84 Personally, I keep going back to "Slug Line" and "Live at budicon". I can't think of a bad song by him in any album. He is truly one of the most gifted and prolific songwriters in America. Some day, someone is going to notice that.
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Endless27 wrote:
great song.
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IRSARGE wrote:
Suuuuuuuuuuuperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr nice!
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badco58 wrote:
Love this song
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snorty84 wrote:
Someone recommend some of these songs to me so I can know what to listen too
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haegar145 wrote:
this song lets our souls swing...
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jimmyDp wrote:
yes, yes he is.
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blackdog71 wrote:
John Hiatt, the mans a genius!
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dancingabout wrote:
Its called 'Your Dad Did'.
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angiew82 wrote:
I am trying to find the title of a song by john hiatt. My dad use to listen to him all I can remember of the song is a line in it "just like your daddy did" I would be greatly appreciative if anyone knows that song.
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bigjocky wrote:
where has he been, he is good, or is it me, where have i been? will listen again
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lowellg wrote:
spot on
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HerrSalami wrote:
Master Of Disaster
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lindseylamier wrote:
yeppppp. usually not my type, really, but Mr. Hiatt is most surely an exception.
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mungomon wrote:
Have a little faith in me...great...nothing more to say
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