JOHN HIATT & THE GUILTY DOGS : HIATT COMES ALIVE AT BUDOKAN ?

  1. Through Your Hands
  2. Real Fine Love
  3. Memphis In The Meantime
  4. Icy Blue Heart
  5. Paper Thin
  6. Angel Eyes
  7. Your Dad Did
  8. Have A Little Faith In Me
  9. Drive South
  10. Thing Called Love
  11. Perfectly Good Guitar
  12. Feels Like Rain
  13. Tennessee Plates
  14. Lipstick Sunset
  15. Slow Turning

Label : A&M Records

Venue : Freemont Theater, San Luis Obispo, CA + Red Mile Racetrack, Lexington, KY + Schuba' State Theater, Portland, ME

Recording Date : February 26 - May 30, 1994

Release Date : November 22, 1994

Length : 76:11

Review (AllMusic) : John Hiatt's first live album was recorded during a 1994 winter-spring tour of the U.S. (the title is a joke) and finds the singer/songwriter backed by the Guilty Dogs, a guitar-bass-drums trio. He doesn't need any more ammunition than that, not when he's got a set of 15 songs drawn from his last four critically acclaimed albums, including "Thing Called Love" and "Tennessee Plates." Hiatt gives his songs a rougher treatment than some of those who have covered them, his throaty voice giving even love songs like "Angel Eyes" an unsentimental force. In the absence of an A&M best-of, Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan? makes a good sampler of his work, 1987-1993.

Review (Wikipedia) : Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan? was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's twelfth album and first live album, released in 1994. The album was actually recorded at venues in North America; the title parodies both Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! and the At Budokan albums released by numerous artists, most famously by Cheap Trick in 1978. Hiatt is backed on this album by the Guilty Dogs, which was recorded on the tour supporting Perfectly Good Guitar.