The great John Hiat
It hasn’t always been easy going for Hiatt who released his first album Hangin’ Around the Observatory on Epic Records in 1974.
By Peter Stone Brown
If any songwriter can be called a songwriter’s songwriter, it’s John Hiatt. His songs have been covered on record and in concert by such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Rosanne Cash, Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell, and also by such singers as Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Aaron Neville and BB King to name a few.
It hasn’t always been easy going for Hiatt who released his first album Hangin’ Around the Observatory on Epic Records in 1974, but didn’t achieve true success until more than a decade later.
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