Riding with the King

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This article is about the John Hiatt album. For the King/Clapton album, see Riding with the King (B. B. King and Eric Clapton album).
Riding With The King
Riding With The King cover
Studio album by John Hiatt
Released 1983
Recorded The Pen, San Francisco
Eden Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 42:05
Label Geffen Records
Producer Ron Nagel, Scott Mathews, Nick Lowe
Professional reviews
John Hiatt chronology
All of a Sudden
(1982)		 Riding With the King
(1983)		 Warming Up to the Ice Age
(1985)

Riding with the King was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's sixth album, released in 1983. It was his second of three albums with Geffen Records. Ron Nagel and Scott Mathews (credited as "Scott Matthews") produced side one of the album at The Pen in San Francisco, with Mathews himself playing all instruments except lead guitar. The second side of the album was produced by Nick Lowe at Eden Studios in London with a group of crack pub rock musicians backing Hiatt. The album's title track would later be covered by B.B. King and Eric Clapton on their album of the same name.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by John Hiatt, except as indicated

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Don't Even Try" – 3:25
  2. "Death by Misadventure" – 3:29 (Hiatt, John Hadley)
  3. "Girl on a String" – 3:11
  4. "Lovers Will" – 4:00
  5. "She Loves the Jerk" – 3:38
  6. "Say It with Flowers" – 3:06

[edit] Side two

  1. "Riding with the King" – 4:18
  2. "You May Already Be a Winner" – 3:35
  3. "Love Like Blood" – 3:55
  4. "The Love that Harms" – 2:49
  5. "Book Lovers" – 3:04 (I. Wood, Hiatt)
  6. "Falling Up" – 3:35

[edit] Personnel

John Hiatt - Vocals, guitar