Perfectly Good Guitar

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Perfectly Good Guitar
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Studio album by
Released7 September 1993
StudioConway Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre Rock
Length52:31 / 57:30
Label A&M [1]
Producer Matt Wallace
John Hiatt chronology
Stolen Moments
(1990)
Perfectly Good Guitar
(1993)
Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan?
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Perfectly Good Guitar is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's eleventh album, released in 1993. It was his last studio album with A&M Records, despite it being Hiatt's highest charting album in the US (#47), Canada (#34), the UK (#67), the Netherlands (#13), and Sweden (#11). The European edition of the album contains the bonus track "I'll Never Get Over You." Iggy Pop first issued the song "Something Wild" on his 1990 album Brick By Brick .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by John Hiatt except where noted.

  1. "Something Wild" – 4:31
  2. "Straight outta Time" – 4:30
  3. "Perfectly Good Guitar" – 4:38 [5]
  4. "Buffalo River Home" – 5:11
  5. "Angel" – 3:18
  6. "Blue Telescope" – 4:21
  7. "Cross My Fingers" – 4:02
  8. "Old Habits" – 4:42 (Hiatt, Marshall Chapman)
  9. "The Wreck of the Barbie Ferrari" – 4:35
  10. "When You Hold Me Tight" – 5:23
  11. "Permanent Hurt" – 3:22
  12. "Loving a Hurricane" – 3:58

Charts

Chart (1993)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [6] 83

Personnel

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