My Top 20 John Hiatt Songs: Have a Little Faith in Me (#8)

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I've spent the evening resting and recovering from playing Putt Putt for five hours last night. Two of my favorite teams (the Cubs and the Cardinals) have been on TV, and I've been watching those games. (The Cards are playing the Marlins, and Ichiro got his 2,998th hit!) Amid all of that here's the next song on my list of my 20 favorite songs by the great John Hiatt. #8: Have a Little Faith in Me This, ladies and gentlemen, is a love song. Friends of mine actually used this song as their wedding song. And, man, does Hiatt pull emotion out of every cell in his body in this performance. Other people have covered this, but accept no substitutes. Hiatt lived this song: this was the first song he wrote after he started the road to sobriety. It's positively spooky to know that he had recorded this song originally the night his estranged wife killed herself in 1984. She couldn't have the faith that he asked her to have. Thankfully, Hiatt managed to stay sober; and, more importantly, he found that faith that he sings about here. Have a Little Faith in Me Written by John Hiatt From Bring the Family, 1987 The way it should be sung, just John and a piano: