''Beneath This Gruff Exterior'' is singer-songwriter
John Hiatt
John Robert Hiatt (born August 20, 1952) is an American singer-songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including new wave, blues, and country. Hiatt has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and has been awarded ...
's seventeenth album, released on May 6, 2003. It was his first album with
New West Records
New West Records is a record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, and Athens, Georgia. It had offices in Burbank, California, and Beverly Hills, California. The label was established in 1998 by Cameron Strang "for artists who perform real music ...
, 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
''Slow Turning'' is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's ninth album, released in 1988. It provided Hiatt's only significant radio hit with the title track. The single "Slow Turning" was also featured in the 2002 motion picture drama '' The Rookie'' wh ...
'' and 2001's ''
The Tiki Bar Is Open
''The Tiki Bar is Open'' was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's sixteenth album released on September 11, 2001, the day of the 9/11 attacks. It was his last album with Vanguard Records. *Although they are uncredited, the album features backing band ...
'').
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
*John Hiatt – guitar, vocals
and The Goners:
*
Sonny Landreth
Clide Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana. He lives in Bre ...
– electric guitar,
slide guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...
,
Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.
The Dobro was originally ...
, backing vocals
*David Ranson – bass guitar
*
Kenneth Blevins
Kenneth Blevins (born in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake ...
– drums, backing vocals
with:
*
Bobby Keys
Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Ni ...
– saxophone
;Technical
*Don Smith – production, nixing, engineering
*Doug Sax – mastering
*Kimberly Levitan – art direction, design
*Michael "Mick" Wilson – photography
References
2003 albums
John Hiatt albums
New West Records albums
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