Reply #20: Leave it to you mdm cyber wizardress to find the original for which I was looking.

[stellanoir]

Yup John Hiatt isn't really well known at all. Given the sometimes "toxic nature of our celebrity obsessed culture," he might even much prefer it to be as such. Who knows. . .?

He's considered to be a "songwriter's songwriter" and not only has he been amazingly prolific over many many years but he also has pretty much had other artists do really well covering his stuff. The two most notable songs that others covered that come to mind are Bonnie Raitt's cover of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and if memory serves, I think Cocker may have done a version of "Have a Little Faith in Me." I'm a die hard fan of the originals of course.

I only saw him perform live once at a cozy little venue in LA called McCabe's Guitar Workshop. Then and there he shared a really adorable story about when he first got to know his wife of many years, she had told him that her father had once forbidden her to wear a suede jacket with fringe on the sleeves. So ingenious was she that she cut off the two offensive pieces of fringe and attached velcro to them and stashed them in her pockets until she had escaped her father's scrutiny. Upon hearing that story, he only could say to her, "marry me."



Yikes, I've not indulged in thread jacking with you in eons.

Guess I might be actually shaking off all that restrictive effluvia from that aforementioned paper bag that seemed to function like casts on my typing fingers for far too long.

Phew.

I do wonder where the heck you found that video though and who posted it but I don't really have a deep need to find out.

Thanks for finding it though.