Since we’ve picked up a few new subscribers over the last year (welcome!), I thought I’d put together the ultimate covers-of-John Hiatt-songs mixtape—73 songs—to celebrate his 73rd birthday.

Until he hit his stride with Bring the Family, Hiatt hopped from label to label while shopping his songs to anyone who’d listen. Thankfully, some of music’s greatest voices were listening, and they agreed that Hiatt’s pen ...