Beneath This Gruff Exterior

Infobox Album |
Name = Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Type = Album
Artist = John Hiatt & The Goners

Released = May 6, 2003
Recorded = 2002-2003
Genre = Rock
Length = 50:00
Label = New West Records
Producer = Don Smith, John Hiatt, The Goners
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:u8de4jn76wae link]
Last album = "The Tiki Bar is Open"
(2001)
This album = "Beneath This Gruff Exterior"
(2003)
Next album = "Master of Disaster"
(2005)

"Beneath This Gruff Exterior" was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's seventeenth album, released in 2003. It was his first album with New West Records, and it was also the first and 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).

Track listing

All tracks written by John Hiatt

#"Uncommon Connection" – 4:11
#"How Bad's The Coffee" – 3:56
#"Nagging Dark" – 3:15
#"My Baby Blue" – 4:35
#"My Dog And Me" – 3:15
#"Almost Fed Up With The Blues" – 4:36
#"Circle Back" – 4:30
#"Window On The World" – 3:36
#"Missing Pieces" – 4:06
#"Fly Back Home" – 4:44
#"The Last Time" – 4:53
#"The Most Unoriginal Sin" – 4:15

Personnel

*John Hiatt - Guitar, vocalsand The Goners:
*Sonny Landreth - Electric Guitar, Slide guitar, Dobro, Background vocals
*David Ranson - Bass guitar
*Kenneth Blevins - drums, Background vocalswith
*Bobby Keys - Saxophone
*Don Smith - Production, Mixing, Engineering
*Doug Sax - Mastering
*Kimberly Levitan - Art direction, Design
*Michael "Mick" Wilson - Photography