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Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners is a 1974 live album credited to Rod Stewart/Faces. 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.




History


The album presents only three songs from the previous albums by the Faces, while presenting six from Stewart's solo releases. Two previously unreleased songs were a cover of "I Wish It Would Rain", originally recorded by The Temptations,and John Lennon's "Jealous Guy".
The performance was recorded with new Faces bassist Tetsu Yamauchi, replacing Ronnie Lane, who 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 Island 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, the Faces' former label—and with whom Stewart would sign as a solo artist following the Faces' demise.
The cassette and 8-track versions also include an extra track - (I Know) I'm Losing You (Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr., Cornelius Grant).
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.




Reception


In The Pittsburgh Press, critic Pete Bishop termed the album "50 disappointingly dull minutes" during which "nothing really excites."




Track listing


Side one

"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack) - 4:38
"Cut Across Shorty" (Wayne Walker, Marijohn Wilkin) - 3:45
"Too Bad" / "Every Picture Tells a Story" (Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood) - 7:34
"Angel" (Jimi Hendrix) - 4:28
"Stay With Me" (Stewart, Wood) - 4:50
Side two

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




Charts






Personnel


Rod Stewart – lead vocals
Ronnie Wood – guitars, backing vocals
Ian McLagan – keyboards, backing vocals
Tetsu Yamauchi – bass, trombone
Kenney Jones – drums




Production


Faces – producer
Gary Kellgren – engineer
Tom Scott and Tom Fly – assistant engineers




References

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• Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
• Faces (band)
• Coast to Coast
• Tetsu Yamauchi
• Ronnie Wood
• Ooh La La (Faces album)
• Angel (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Rod Stewart discography
• Gary Kellgren
• Faces discography