Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan? explained

Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan?
Type:Live album
Artist:John Hiatt and the Guilty Dogs
Cover:Hiatt Alive.jpg
Released:22 November 1994
Recorded:26 February – 30 May 1994
Genre:Rock
Length:76:12
Label:A&M
Producer:Matt Wallace
Prev Title:Perfectly Good Guitar
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Walk On
Next Year:1995

Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan? is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's twelfth album and first live album, released in 1994. The album was actually recorded at venues in North America; the title parodies both Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! and the At Budokan albums released by numerous artists, most famously by Cheap Trick in 1978.

Hiatt is backed on this album by the Guilty Dogs, which was recorded on the tour supporting Perfectly Good Guitar.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Hiatt except where noted

  1. "Through Your Hands" – 4:14. Recorded at The State Theater, Portland, Me.
  2. "Real Fine Love" – 4:59. Recorded at The Freemont Theater, San Luis Obispo, Ca.
  3. "Memphis In The Meantime" – 4:38. Recorded at the Red Mile Racetrack, Lexington, Ky.
  4. "Icy Blue Heart" – 5:42. Recorded at Schuba's, Chicago, Il.
  5. "Paper Thin" – 4:29. Recorded at the Red Mile Racetrack, Lexington, Ky.
  6. "Angel Eyes" – 4:54 (Hiatt, Fred Koller). Recorded at The State Theater, Portland, Me.
  7. "Your Dad Did" – 5:35. Recorded at The Strand Theater, Providence, R.I.
  8. "Have A Little Faith In Me" – 4:17. Recorded at The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  9. "Drive South" – 5:02. Recorded at The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  10. "Thing Called Love" – 5:50. Recorded at The Stone Ballroom, Newark, De.
  11. "Perfectly Good Guitar" – 5:43. Recorded at Toad's Place, New Haven, Ct.
  12. "Feels Like Rain" – 6:21. Recorded at Toad's Place, New Haven, Ct.
  13. "Tennessee Plates" – 4:06 (Hiatt, Mike Porter). Recorded at The Terrace Ballroom, Austin, Tx.
  14. "Lipstick Sunset" – 5:31. Recorded at The Von Braun Civic Center, Huntsville, Al.
  15. "Slow Turning" – 4:51. Recorded at The State Theater, Portland, Me.

Personnel

The Guilty Dogs