Beneath This Gruff Exterior

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Piero Scaruffi	4/10

Beneath This Gruff Exterior was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's seventeenth album, released in 2003. It was his first album with New West Records, and it was also the only album on which backing band The Goners received front cover credit along with Hiatt (although The Goners had previously backed Hiatt on 1988's Slow Turning and 2001's The Tiki Bar Is Open).

Track listing

All tracks written by John Hiatt

1. "Uncommon Connection" – 4:11
2. "How Bad's The Coffee" – 3:56
3. "The Nagging Dark" – 3:15
4. "My Baby Blue" – 4:35
5. "My Dog And Me" – 3:15
6. "Almost Fed Up With The Blues" – 4:36
7. "Circle Back" – 4:30
8. "Window On The World" – 3:36
9. "Missing Pieces" – 4:06
10. "Fly Back Home" – 4:44
11. "The Last Time" – 4:53
12. "The Most Unoriginal Sin" – 4:15

Personnel

• John Hiatt - Guitar, vocals

and The Goners:

• Sonny Landreth - Electric Guitar, Slide guitar, Dobro, Background vocals
• David Ranson - Bass guitar
• Kenneth Blevins - drums, Background vocals

with

• Bobby Keys - Saxophone
• Don Smith - Production, Mixing, Engineering
• Doug Sax - Mastering
• Kimberly Levitan - Art direction, Design
• Michael "Mick" Wilson - Photography