The Tiki Bar is Open
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The Tiki Bar is Open was singer-songwriter
John Hiatt
's sixteenth album, released in 2001. It was his last album with Vanguard Records
. It was coincidentally released on September 11, 2001.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
John Hiatt
John Hiatt
John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
's sixteenth album, released in 2001. It was his last album with Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
. It was coincidentally released on September 11, 2001.
Track listing
All tracks written by John Hiatt- "Everybody Went Low" – 3:20
- "Hangin' Round Here" – 3:09
- "All The Lilacs In Ohio" – 3:37
- "My Old Friend" – 3:50
- "I Know A Place" – 3:26
- "Something Broken" – 3:12
- "Rock Of Your Love" – 3:15
- "I'll Never Get Over You" – 3:38
- "The Tiki Bar Is Open" – 4:40
- "Come Home To You" – 3:52
- "Farther Stars" – 8:49
Personnel
- John Hiatt - guitar, piano, harmonica, mandolin, harmonium, vocals
- Jay Joyce - guitar, keyboards, loops
- Sonny LandrethSonny LandrethSonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
- guitar - Dave Ranson - bass
- Kenneth Blevins - drums, percussion
- David Bianco - piano on "The Tiki Bar Is Open"
- Julie Miller - backing vocals
- New Reflections Men's Choir - backing vocals on "The Tiki Bar Is Open"