Originally Posted by
Timothy Wright
Oggy> Sorry about the 17 years,
Nothing to be sorry about. With most musical performers I visit both Allmusic.com and Amazon.com and pick out those with the best reviews and hopefully good prices. John Hiatt can have a cynical sense of humor ("The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari" would be a good example), that is a gift that comes only with age and experience. If I like his performances I think his song writing is just amazing. I was looking at a "John Hiatt" search on amazon and I easily found thee CD anthologies of other well know performers covering his material. John Hiatt will be remembered 100 years from now for his song writing.
If you do not know their work also look up: Randy Newman, John Prine, John Fahey, Townes Van Zandt, Warren Zevon and Ry Cooder's older stuff (1970-2000..