Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

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Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	C−[3]

Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners is a 1974

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.^[4]

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

The back cover photo is actually the Old Boston Garden taken on May 2, 1973.^[citation needed]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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" / "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. "
   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

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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

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