Beneath This Gruff Exterior

Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Studio album by
John Hiatt & The Goners
ReleasedMay 6, 2003
Recorded2002–03
GenreRock
Length50:00
LabelNew West[1]
ProducerDon Smith, John Hiatt, The Goners
John Hiatt & The Goners chronology
The Tiki Bar is Open
(2001) 		Beneath This Gruff Exterior
(2003) 		Master of Disaster
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Guardian[3]
Uncut[4]

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:

with:

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

References

  1. ^ "John Hiatt & the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior, PopMatters". June 2003.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. Beneath This Gruff Exterior at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 12.
  3. ^ Adam Sweeting (May 15, 2003). "CD: John Hiatt and the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. ^ "John Hiatt and the Goners - Beneath This Gruff Exterior". July 31, 2003.