John Hiatt
FameRank: 6

"John Hiatt" is an United States/American rock and roll/rock guitarist, pianist, singing/singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New wave music/new wave, blues and country music/country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry. He remains one of the most respected and influential American singer-songwriters.

More John Hiatt on Wikipedia.

She came onto him like a slow movin' cold front -- His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes.

In the end, it's not going to have very much impact. We've closed the barn door after the horse is gone.

Jim Dickinson is a musical shaman. He not only understands and knows music, he knows and understands the people who make it. It was kind of freaky sometimes, because he would seem to know what we were thinking musically before we played it, then he'd articulate it in a way that made more sense than how we envisioned it.

I'm like, 'Yeah, right.' At first I thought it was a friend putting me on.

[Like this one a few years ago:] Hello, John, this is Eric Clapton, ... Love to do your song.

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

What it shows is that nobody really cares about the Meadow Valley Wash. When push comes to shove, it's not clear that anybody will do anything about anything.

[For the first several songs, Hiatt performed with rock 'n' roll energy, sawing away on his guitar and blowing his harmonica with near abandon. After completing a furious version of] Your Dad Did, ... I love folk music.

This is just one of many, many incidences where people have treated federal land as part of their operations, just sort of done whatever they have felt like doing, to make it work for them.