Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
Live album by Rod Stewart/Faces
Released	10 January 1974[1]
Recorded	October 1973
Genre	Rock
Length	49:48
Label	Mercury (U.S. LP version, SRM 1-697) Warner Bros. (U.S. cassettes/cartridges, M8/M5-2752)
Producer	Faces
Rod Stewart/Faces chronology
Ooh La La (1973) Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners Snakes And Ladders / The Best of Faces (1976)

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Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners was a 1974 live album credited to Rod Stewart/Faces.^[1] It reflected Stewart's practice of not giving concerts as a solo act at the time, but rather appearing jointly with the Faces; thus the dual crediting.

History

The album presents only three numbers from the previous albums by the Faces, while presenting six from Stewart's solo releases. The two tracks that had not seen the light of day on either were renditions of "I Wish It Would Rain", first made famous by The Temptations, and "Jealous Guy", from John Lennon.

The performance was recorded with replacement Faces bassist Tetsu Yamauchi, filling in for departed member Ronnie Lane. Lane had left soon after the release of Ooh La La, fed up at the group increasingly being presented as Stewart's backing band.

Coast to Coast was recorded live in October 1973 at the Anaheim Convention Center and Hollywood Palladium, and was mixed at Island Studios in London.

In an unusual arrangement, LP versions of the album were issued in the U.S. by Mercury Records (which at the time issued Stewart's solo albums), while cassette and 8-track configurations were issued by Warner Bros. Records,^[1] the Faces' erstwhile label - and with whom Stewart would sign as a solo artist following the Faces' demise.

Long out of print in the United States, Coast to Coast is only available as an import from Japan. The Faces would disband within a year and a half of the album's release.

Track listing

1. "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack) - 4:38
2. "Cut Across Shorty" (Wayne Walker, Marijohn Wilkin) - 3:45
3. "Too Bad" (R. Stewart-R. Wood) / "Every Picture Tells A Story" (Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood) - 7:34
4. "Angel" (Jimi Hendrix) - 4:28
5. "Stay With Me" (Stewart, Wood) - 4:50
6. "I Wish It Would Rain" (Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) - 4:20
7. "I'd Rather Go Blind" (Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan) - 5:55
8. "Borstal Boys" (Ian McLagan, Stewart, Wood) / "Amazing Grace" (Traditional, arr. D. Throat) - 9:52
9. "Jealous Guy" (John Lennon) - 4:25

Personnel

• The Faces - producers
• Kenney Jones - drums
• Ian McLagan - piano and organ
• Rod Stewart - lead vocals
• Ronnie Wood - guitars and vocals
• Tetsu Yamauchi - bass

Production

• Faces – producer
• Gary Kellgren - engineer
• Tom Scott^{[disambiguation needed ]} and Tom Fly - assistant engineers

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Gray, John (1992). Rod Stewart: The Visual Documentary. London: Omnibus Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-7119-2906-8. 
2. ^ Allmusic review