Riding With The King (John Hiatt Album)
''Riding with the King'' was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's sixth album, released in 1983. It was his second of three albums with Geffen Records. Ron Nagle and Scott Mathews (credited as "Scott Matthews") produced side one of the album at The Pen in San Francisco, with Mathews himself playing all instruments (except guitar) and providing all the background vocals. The second side of the album was produced by Nick Lowe at Eden Studios in London with the musicians known as the Cowboy Outfit that Lowe recorded two albums with in the mid-1980s. "I always kind of look at ''Riding with the King'' as the first album where I really put it altogether. I finally figured out what I was all about and found three or four styles I liked to work in", Hiatt observed about the album.Scott Schinder, 2001 liner notes for 'John Hiatt Anthology', Hip-O, Although the album failed to chart in the US, it received considerable critical acclaim with Robert Christgau observing "...this is his best album ...
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