I Love The Jerk By Amanda on March 22, 2008 9:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
John Hiatt is on this Thursday at the Enmore, got my third row centre seat and can not wait.
I've also been making a Hiatt compilation for an acquaintance who is unaccountably unfamiliar. List below. It leans heavily towards the later rootsy stages because of this particular audience but there are many gems in the earlier stuff. I can't find my copy of Riding With the King but if I could I would absolutely have to include "She Loves the Jerk." I do like the sullen bravado of the original but here's the mature acoustic version.
So many dilemmas. Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan is the album I listen to the most but I substituted most for the studio versions for time, the live ones being a minute or two longer -- Mike Ward really tears up those guitar solos. I had to include the Budokan "Icy Blue Heart" (really recorded: Chicago) 'cause that's my fave song and my fave version of my fave song. The Tiki Bar is Open is a glaring ommission from this era. Oh well, next time. To make it easier on me I arbitrarily ruled Little Village inadmissable.
The final CD over the fold, annotated by YouTube:
Crossing Muddy Waters
Crossing Muddy Waters [2000]
Dust Down a Country Road
Walk On [1995]
Memphis in the Meantime
Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan. Episode 31 "Tennessee" Originally: Bring the Family [19>87]
Cry Love
Walk On [1995]
Icy Blue Heart
Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan [1994] Originally: Slow Turning [1988]
Gone
Crossing Muddy Waters [2000]
Master of Disaster
Master of Disaster [2005]
Lipstick Sunset
Bring the Family [1987]
The Most Unoriginal Sin
Beneath this Gruff Exterior [2003]
River Knows Your Name
Walk On [1995]
Learning How to Love You
Bring the Family [1987]
Drive South
Slow Turning [1988]
Only The Song Survives
Crossing Muddy Waters [2000]
I Want Your Love Inside Me
Overcoats [1975]
Trudy and Dave
Slow Turning [1988]
Tennessee Plates
Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan [1994] Originally: Slow Turning [1988]
Perfectly Good Guitar
Perfectly Good Guitar [1993]
Before I Go
Crossing Muddy Waters [2000]
One Step Over the Line
with Rosanne Cash from Will the Circle Be Unbroken vol. 2 [1990]
By Jo
on March 24, 2008 2:18 PM
You don't hate America - you just hate that you're not there to enjoy those lovely tours!