Beneath This Gruff Exterior Explained

Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Type:	Album
Artist:	John Hiatt & The Goners
Cover:	Hiatt Gruff.jpg
Released:	May 6, 2003
Recorded:	2002–03
Genre:	Rock
Length:	50:00
Label:	New West^[1]
Producer:	Don Smith, John Hiatt, The Goners
Prev Title:	The Tiki Bar is Open
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Master of Disaster
Next Year:	2005

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

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, backing vocals
• David Ranson – bass guitar
• Kenneth Blevins – drums, backing vocals

with:

• Bobby Keys – saxophone

Technical

• Don Smith – production, nixing, engineering
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Kimberly Levitan – art direction, design
• Michael "Mick" Wilson – photography

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Hiatt & the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior, PopMatters. June 2003.