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Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair.

In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere Dave McKenna 2011

Lyrics mean more in these intimate gigs, and on this night Hiatt's words were routinely funnier ("Gone" found him missing a woman who was "gone like a Nixon file") and sweeter (the brutally fantastic "All the Lilacs in Ohio" described a guy lost and lonely in the big city) and sadder (the marriage dissolution chronicle "What Do We Do Now") than those in Lovett's offerings.

In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere Dave McKenna 2011

Then they launch into "Little Wing" or John Hiatt's "Icy Blue Heart" and you know right away, this ain't bad.

Our home, cont'd (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Then they launch into "Little Wing" or John Hiatt's "Icy Blue Heart" and you know right away, this ain't bad.

Jack Bog's Blog: August 2009 Archives 2009

But Hiatt's latest hire, Jennifer Rubin, has a tendency to engage in short-cut sliming rather than engaging in the same constructive tone and spirit that my exchanges with Hiatt have had.

Steve Clemons: Calling on Fred Hiatt and Donald Graham: Jennifer Rubin & Israel-Bashing? Steve Clemons 2011

"The Open Road," the rocking title track to Hiatt's new CD, is only the latest of many great songs in his catalogue about the itinerant lifestyle.

In concert: John Hiatt at Rams Head Tavern 2010

The big concern is that the political impossibility of doing that will lead to politicians searching for high tech back door methods of doing the same, blessed by Fred Hiatt's crew.

Eschaton 2008

Hiatt's favorite politician, GW Bush, would never be seen "tailoring his public statements for political purposes."

Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan 2009

Now, there's a certain beauty in Hiatt's claim that the fact that the Iraqi government's timetable would extend seven months beyond Obama's somehow shows that Iraqi leaders don't support Obama's timing.

Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan 2009

Fred Hiatt's Washington Post editorial page has managed to endorse the idea of Congressional oversight -- provided that this oversight have no meaningful consequences.

WaPo Endorses Idea Of Congressional "Oversight" -- With No Consequences For Bush 2009