Hiatt played with a variety of bands, including The Four-Fifths and John Lynch & the Hangmen. He played in a variety of local clubs, most notably the Hummingbird. He learned to play the guitar when he was 11, and began his musical career in Indianapolis as a teenager. In his youth, Hiatt reports that he and several others stole a Ford Thunderbird, a crime for which he was caught by the owners but got away with, posing as a hitchhiker. To escape the stress of his early life, Hiatt watched Ind圜ar racing and listened to Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the blues. Two years later, his father died after a long illness. When he was 9 years old, Hiatt's 21-year-old brother Michael died by suicide. Hiatt was born in 1952 to Robert and Ruth Hiatt, the sixth of seven children in a Roman Catholic family from Indianapolis, Indiana. John Hiatt at the Zelt-Musik-Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany The Dutch singer-songwriter Ilse DeLange recorded the album Dear John with nine of his songs. King, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Chaka Khan, Albert Lee, Dave Edmunds, Delbert McClinton, Desert Rose Band, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Iggy Pop, I'm with Her, Jeff Healey, Jewel, Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Cocker, Keith Urban, Linda Ronstadt, Mandy Moore, Maria Muldaur, Marti Jones, Nick Lowe, Paula Abdul, Paulini, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Ry Cooder, Suzy Bogguss, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Searchers, Three Dog Night, Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, and Willy DeVille. Since then he has released 22 studio albums, two compilation albums and one live album.Ī variety of artists in multiple genres have covered his songs, including Aaron Neville, B.B.
The song became a Top 40 hit, earning Hiatt a recording contract with Epic Records. Hiatt was working as a songwriter for Tree International, a record label in Nashville, when his song " Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" was covered by Three Dog Night. Hiatt has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including new wave, blues, and country.
John Robert Hiatt (born August 20, 1952) is an American singer-songwriter.
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