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Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Studio album by John Hiatt & the Goners
Released	2003
Recorded	2002–03
Studio	Blackbird (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Rock
Length	50:00
Label	New West
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 in 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).

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

• John Hiatt – guitar, vocals

and the Goners:

• Sonny Landreth – electric guitar, slide guitar, Dobro, backing vocals
• David Ranson – bass guitar
• Kenneth Blevins – drums, backing vocals

with:

• Bobby Keys – saxophone

Technical

• Don Smith – production, nixing, engineering
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Kimberly Levitan – art direction, design
• Michael "Mick" Wilson – photography

References

1. "John Hiatt & the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior, PopMatters". June 2003.
2. Deming, Mark. Beneath This Gruff Exterior at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 12.
3. Adam Sweeting (May 15, 2003). "CD: John Hiatt and the Goners: Beneath This Gruff Exterior | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
4. "John Hiatt and the Goners - Beneath This Gruff Exterior". July 31, 2003.

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