Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

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

Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
Live album by
Rod Stewart/Faces
Released10 January 1974[1]
Recorded17 October 1973 at Anaheim Arena (Anaheim, CA)
GenreRock & roll, boogie rock, blues-rock
Length49:48
LabelMercury (U.S. LP version, SRM 1-697)
Warner Bros. (U.S. cassettes/cartridges, M8/M5-2752)
ProducerFaces
Rod Stewart/Faces chronology
Ooh La La
(1973)		 Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
(1974)		 Snakes And Ladders / The Best of Faces
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideC–[3]

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 on 17 October 1973 at the Anaheim Convention Center and was mixed at Air Studios in London.

In an unusual arrangement, LP versions of the album were issued in the United States 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.

The back cover photo is actually the Old Boston Garden taken on May 2, 1973.

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
Side one
  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
Side two
  1. "I Wish It Would Rain" (Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) - 4:20
  2. "I'd Rather Go Blind" (Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan) - 5:55
  3. "Borstal Boys" (Ian McLagan, Stewart, Wood) / "Amazing Grace" (Traditional, arr. D. Throat) - 9:52
  4. "Jealous Guy" (John Lennon) - 4:25

Charts
Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)38[4]

Personnel

Production

References
  1. Gray, John (1992). Rod Stewart: The Visual Documentary. London: Omnibus Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-7119-2906-8.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 107. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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