John Hiatt
John Hiatt ( born August 20, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer and songwriter. His repertoire includes New Wave, Blues, Country and Southern Rock.
John Hiatt gained his first musical experience in high school bands. At 18, he moved to Nashville, where he was taken at a music publishing company as a writer under contract and played in the local club scene. He was able to record his first success in 1974 when the group Three Dog Night, with its Sure as I'm Sittin 'Here was a Top 20 hit. In the same year he was awarded a record contract with Epic label. Two LPs were produced, but only disappointing sold.
Hiatt left Nashville and moved to Los Angeles. Through the mediation of guitarist Leo Kottke, he received a contract with MCA Records label. Two more albums were produced and again were the sales figures, despite good reviews, bad. At the end of the decade he was again because without a contract.
Career
1980 Hiatt rose at a Ry Cooder. Established musicians such as Dave Edmunds, Rosanne Cash or Ry Cooder himself intervened increasingly turning to his material and thus achieved remarkable success. His reputation as a songwriter in 1981 brought him a new record deal. Again flopped the first two albums. Hiatt, who drank from an early age, increasingly lost control of himself. His alcohol consumption exceeded the tolerable level. 1985 committed his second wife suicide. After completion of another album he underwent treatment for addiction.
In 1986, he married again and received another recording contract, this time at the A & M label. The LP Bring The Family played a John Hiatt with Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner; the plate made it after all, almost to the top 100. A first modest success. The follow-up album, Slow Turning, even reaching number 98 Successful were other artists of his songs. So Rosanne Cash recorded with The Way We Make a Broken Heart a number 1 hit and Earl Thomas Conley won in 1991 with Bring Back Your Love to Me a CMA Award.
1991 brief break Hiatt, Cooder, Lowe, and Keltner, the band Little Village. After production, only an album of the same name they went their separate ways. John Hiatt again took on solo albums, but, as usual, reached most, moderately charts courts. He moved in 1995 to the Capitol label. Again, good quality albums were released, which, however, was never granted a sales success. A change to Vanguard in 2000 did not bring the commercial breakthrough.
Instruments
John Hiatt preferably plays Acoustic Guitars Gibson, mainly J -45 models. In his honor, the company brought out the John Hiatt J -45 signature guitar.
Discography ( albums)
Hiatt Covers ( selection)
- Bob Dylan: The Usual (Album: Hearts of Fire, 1987)
- Rosanne Cash: The Way We Make a Broken Heart (Album: King's Record Shop, 1987)
- Bonnie Raitt: Thing Called Love (Album: Nick of Time, 1989)
- Iggy Pop: Something Wild (Album: Brick by Brick, 1990)
- Joan Baez: Through Your Hands (Album: Play Me Backwards, 1992)
- Willie Nelson: Across the Borderline ( Album: Across the Borderline, 1993)
- Bruce Springsteen Across the Borderline ( Album: Unplugged - Live in the USA, 1993)
- David Crosby: Through Your Hands (Album: Thousand Roads, 1993)
- Joe Cocker: Have a Little Faith in Me (Album: Have a Little Faith in Me, 1994)
- Jewel: Have a Little Faith in Me ( Album: Phenomenon OST, 1996)
- Chaka Khan: Have a Little Faith in Me ( Album: Disappearing Acts OST, 2000)
- Elvis Costello: Living a Little, Laughing a Little (Album: Nashville & More, 2000)
- BB King & Eric Clapton: Riding with the King ( Album: Riding with the King, 2000)