The Tiki Bar Is Open

by John Hiatt

The Tiki Bar Is Open cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 September 2001
  • Label: Vanguard
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:34
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

John Hiatt's sixteenth studio album, 'The Tiki Bar Is Open' reunites him with backing band The Goners, including slide guitarist Sonny Landreth. Its roots rock songwriting mixes barroom humour, mortality and romantic reflection in Hiatt's established plainspoken style.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, guitars, bluesy, organic, personal

Tracklist

  1. Everybody Went Low (3:19)
  2. Hangin' Round Here (3:08)
  3. All The Lilacs In Ohio (3:36)
  4. My Old Friend (3:49)
  5. I Know A Place (3:25)
  6. Something Broken (3:10)
  7. Rock Of Your Love (3:13)
  8. I'll Never Get Over You (3:37)
  9. The Tiki Bar Is Open (4:39)
  10. Come Home To You (3:49)
  11. Farther Stars (8:49)

Credits

  • John Hiatt - primary artist, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, piano, harmonica, mandolin, harmonium, vocals
  • Kenneth Blevins - drums, percussion, percussion [trash can] [goners, the]
  • David Ranson - electric bass, double bass [upright bass] [goners, the]
  • Sonny Landreth - slide guitar [electric, acoustic & twelve string], electric guitar, e-bow, backing vocals [goners, the]
  • Niko Bolas - engineer, mixed by
  • Kimberly Levitan - art direction
  • Good And Evil Design - design
  • Greg Parker - engineer [assistant]
  • Jim Demain - mastered by
  • Richard Dodd - mixed by
  • Jim McGuire - photography by

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