Artist:  Rod Stewart and the Faces

Title:  Live - Coast to Coast (Overtures and Beginners)

Date:  1973

Label:  Mercury Records SRM-1-697

Photography: Emerson-Lowe/Bruce Larson/Charles Gatewood

Cover Illustration: John Craig  

Notes:  A great live set from the lads in the midst of their drunken holiday. Rod in a tutu and the rest of the boys in various stages of euphoria and bliss. The whole records sounds like we've been invited to a jam down at the local pub with friends and family. The music, loose and bouncy, is the perfect foil to Rod's voice, that mixture of sandpaper and scotch. "I'd Rather Go Blind" or "Angel" are worth the price of admission alone. I bought this album in high school and it added to my blues foundation, albeit by way of a group of small, scruffy white guys from England. The cover art gets us to the show and puts us in the crowd. The inner sleeve has a nice collection of the lads in action. Highly recommended.

Line Up:

Rod Stewart: throat
Ian McLagan: keyboards, what throat?
Ron Wood: guitar, some throat!
Kenny Jones: drums
Tetsu Yamauchi: bass and trombone

Track Listing

Side 1

It's All Over Now
Cut Across Shorty
Too Bad / Every Picture Tells A Story
Angel
Stay With Me

Side 2

I Wish It Would Rain
I'd Rather Go Blind
Borstal Boy / Amazing Grace
Jealous Guy