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Beneath This Gruff Exterior

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Released
  
May 6, 2003

Length
  
50:00

Release date
  
6 May 2003

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
2002-03

Artist
  
John Hiatt & The Goners

Label
  
New West Records

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Producer
  
Don Smith, John Hiatt, The Goners

Beneath This Gruff Exterior (2003)
  
Master of Disaster (2005)

Similar
  
The Tiki Bar Is Open, Same Old Man, The Open Road, Little Head, All of a Sudden

Beneath This Gruff Exterior was 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).

Contents

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, 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

    • Songs

    1Uncommon Connection4:12
    2How Bad's the Coffee?3:56
    3The Nagging Dark3:15

    References

    Beneath This Gruff Exterior Wikipedia
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