Beneath This Gruff Exterior

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Beneath This Gruff Exterior
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Studio album by
John Hiatt & The Goners
ReleasedMay 6, 2003
Recorded2002–03
Genre Rock
Length50:00
Label New West [1]
Producer Don 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)
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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 ).

Contents

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

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