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(transcribed by John de Vet)
 talk #1: 
- Hiatt:
- We stopped playing together for no particular reason, you know.
We just went our own separate ways.
And then, I don't know why it took us so long to get back together, but I don't really chose, you know, musicians to play with, stuff just kinda happens.
This was just another one of those things.
I just was sitting around one day, and I [thought], it would just be fun to play with The Goners, you know.
So, I gave'm a call.
I just feel fortunate to have played with some great players, and they're all just pretty accessible, you know, and still wanna make music. Like The Goners, you know, it was great that we could get everybody back together.
interview #1:
- Hiatt:
- I've got a lot of songs, so that's the biggest problem, you know.
We'd get the bones of a set that just kinda seems to work by playing it for a month or two.
And then you kinda plug different songs in different spots.
A lot of this has to do with how the band feels, and a couple of songs probably that two months ago weren't really working in the set, somehow they are now. So, you just never know, every night is different.
- interviewer:
- Does it ever happen that you rediscover songs that you haven't played in years, suddenly appaers and you try them out and they fit then?
- Hiatt:
- Well, I mean, a good example of that is I'll Never Get Over You. We've recorded it for Perfectly Good Guitar back in 93.
And I just pulled that out the sessions. Sonny started playing that really beautiful guitar bit.
You know, stuff like that hapopens.
talk #2:
- Hiatt:
- Well we were in New York when it happened. We had to do a TV show. We got out of town, I think it took us two days to get out of the city and get back.
And we had to cancel the dates around the tri-state area.
But we came back the next weekend and replayed those shows, and then we stayed out on the road. You know, our tour kinda took on a renewed focus. We felt like we were entertaining all these shell-shocked Americans aroudn the country.
So it kinda became our mission to give them a little entertainment, and get their minds off this stuff for a while...
interview #2:
- Hiatt:
- You know I write a lot. People started asking for material, you know. When we released Bring The Family is when people started knocking on the doors, looking for songs. You know, it kinda keeps this whole weird little thing that I call a carreer working, you know. So, yes it's been good.
- interviewer:
- Are there any of the versions that other artists have done that you are particularly happy with?
- Hiatt:
- There's a lot that I've been blown away by.
It's kinda hard to pick one.
I love Bob Dylan singing The Usual, you know, I thought he did a great job.
Emmylou Harris did a great job on Icy Blue Heart.
Bonnie Raitt, she's done three of my songs, you know, really great versions of all three of 'm.
You know, BB King and Eric doing Riding With the King was great.
Buddy Guy, we'd been out on the road with him, BB and Buddy, and there I was opening for two of my heroes, and both of 'm have recorded my songs.
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Live at Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo
