The dates fill out a calendar that keeps him on the road through November, beginning October 23 at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Mich. Among the new dates are stops in Nashville, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Hiatt’s name may not be as universally recognized as some of his contemporaries, but having his work covered by other songwriters – Bob Dylan, for example – helps explain why he’s always been a hit with fellow musicians and critics if not the record-buying public.

His songs have been performed by some of the biggest names in the business including Bonnie Raitt, Jewel, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Iggy Pop, John Doe, and Linda Ronstadt.

He’s had moderate hits of his own with albums like 1987’s Bring The Family, its 1998 follow-up Slow Turning, and 1993’s Perfectly Good Guitar.

B.B. King and Eric Clapton currently have a highly-acclaimed hit album with a Hiatt-penned title tune, “Ridin’ With the King.”

In the early ‘90s, Hiatt brought together Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner to play on Bring The Family, and the four of them went on to form a short-lived supergroup – Little Village.

Over the course of a 25-year career, he has earned Grammy nominations and the Nashville Music Awards’ Artist Songwriter of the Year citation.

This year, he was tapped to host the PBS concert series “Sessions at West 54th,” and has numerous appearances on another PBS series, “Austin City Limits,” to his credit.