From the archive: Don’t Bug Me When I’m Working: Little Village At 30

l-r: Jim Keltner, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, John Hiatt

Originally published February 18, 2022.

The following includes outtakes never before published from Chapter 13, “Don’t Bug Me When I’m Working,” of Have A Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story, available here and wherever books are sold.

“Go ahead, we’re rolling, take one.” 

Leonard Chess was perched behind the board in the control room at 2120 South Michigan Avenue - the storied address of the legendary Chess Records - in Chicago, Illinois one afterno...