A John Hiatt tribute put on as a MusiCares benefit featured Los Lobos, Lyle Lovett, Tom Morello, Brandy Clark, Joe Bonamassa ...

The two hours of music featured everything from simple, acoustic renditions by the Milk Carton Kids to turned-up electric guitar ... sing a John Hiatt song to the audience, which was my classmates ...

(“Steve said I’d be sick of my own songs by now,” Hiatt quipped, by way of explaining his eagerness to jump back onto one of somebody else’s.) Hiatt has played with some guitar heroes in ...