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"Cracked Rear View"

This is a lyric from John Hiatt's  "Bring The Family" lp, circa 1987. A song off of this lp entitled "Learning How To Love You", has this very phrase in it. So, inevitably, I saw the comparison to the Hootie and the Blowfish lp, "Cracked Rear View".

Has this ever been discussed before? Wondering if there was a connection or a copy right violation?
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slaw OP
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By the way, the MOFI "Bring The Family" is one "kick ass sounding record"!
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Yes indeed Slaw. Musically too, with one of my very favorite guitar breaks of all time, Ry Cooder's on "Lipstick Sunset".
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A little off topic, but I think John Hiatt offers great and thought provoking lyrics. But one of my favorite lines is "I always though my house haunted, 'cause nobody said boo to me" . Not verbatim but I do love his music.
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I love so many of John Hiatt's lyrics.

This one IMO captures modern cynicism with particular wit and insight:

Still you argue for your options,
and you angle for your case,
like you wouldn't know a burning bush,
if it blew up in your face.


 - Through Your Hands
 
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Absolutely in the very top tier of working singer/songwriters today.
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