Legendary rock troubadour back on the road after suffering serious head injury while hiking

Most years, John Hiatt going on tour wouldn’t be a big deal. Dude’s been a road warrior since he was in the band White Duck during the early 70s.In September, Hiatt, 71, fell while hiking in South Cumberland State Park in Tennessee. He suffered a concussion and a skull fracture along with lacerations and bruises. “My wife said right before we fell, ‘You know, we forgot our hiking sticks,’” Hiatt recalls now. “This is an example of why you take your hiking sticks.

You’re re-starting with a solo tour. Do you have a preference between that vs. being out with a full band? Hiatt: How ‘bout that, huh? I didn’t even think about that, to be honest. I was scared to death; I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. The songwriting was not really formed; I just knew I wanted to do it. I didn’t know who I was vocally, and I was only 10 years out of picking up a guitar. So for me I was still chipping away. I wasn’t one of those guys that came fully formed out of the gate. I had to kind of do it in public.

Around the same time as your first album Three Dog Night had a Top 20 hit with your song “Sure as I’m Sitting Here.” How did that happen? Hiatt: Y’know, it’s been great. That was sort of a side gig to me, a songwriter who wrote songs for other people. I just wrote and didn’t think about it. It never really defined who I was...or who I am, for that matter.Hiatt: I’ve got two records in my mind I want to do. I’d like to make a record with my daughter Lily, and I’d like to get the Goners and Glyn Johns together again; that was a the lineup for the “Slow Turning” album , so I’d like to make another record with that group of people.

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