Beneath This Gruff Exterior
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Beneath This Gruff Exterior | ||||
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Studio album by John Hiatt & The Goners | ||||
Released | May 6, 2003 | |||
Recorded | 2002-03 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 50:00 | |||
Label | New West[1] | |||
Producer | Don Smith, John Hiatt, The Goners | |||
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Beneath This Gruff Exterior is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's seventeenth album, released on May 6, 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
- "Uncommon Connection" – 4:11
- "How Bad's The Coffee" – 3:56
- "The Nagging Dark" – 3:15
- "My Baby Blue" – 4:35
- "My Dog And Me" – 3:15
- "Almost Fed Up With The Blues" – 4:36
- "Circle Back" – 4:30
- "Window On The World" – 3:36
- "Missing Pieces" – 4:06
- "Fly Back Home" – 4:44
- "The Last Time" – 4:53
- "The Most Unoriginal Sin" – 4:15
Personnel
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
References
- ^ https://www.popmatters.com/hiattjohn-beneath-2495926347.html
- ^ Deming, Mark. Beneath This Gruff Exterior at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 12.
- ^ Adam Sweeting. "CD: John Hiatt and the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
- ^ https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/john-hiatt-and-the-goners-beneath-this-gruff-exterior-22458/