overcoats

1975 Epic

1991 Epic

2006 Beat Goes on Records

(together on 1 CD with

hangin around the observatory)

Total running time:

Musicians

John Hiatt:

Guitar 

Vocals

Ted Reynolds:

Bass

kabassa

Larry London:

Percussion

Drums

Shana Keister:

Piano

Fender Rhodes

Trumpet

Billy Puitt:

Clarinet

Sax (Tenor)

Credits

Mixing Engineers:

Harold Lee

Rick Heenan

Mix Engineers Assisted:

Bob Goodman

Dob Cobb

Remix Engineers:

Harold Lee

Glen Spreen

Recordists:

Joe Turzin

Ronnie Dean

thanks to:

harold lee, glen spreen, rick heenan, the refugees, tracy and the girls, the grease brothers, bill barnes and julie holiner for cover design, eric the magician, everyone at tree, dixie gamble for typing all this stuff, travis rivers, allen grubman, don ellis, ron alexenburg, gregg geller, stan monteiro, jim charne, mama ruth and the family, linda, a full moon

special thanks to jordy hormel

Note

• All songs written by John Hiatt

• Mastered At Masterfonics, Inc, Nashville

• Recorded At American Studios, Nashville

• remixed at quadrafonic studios. nashville

• "I'm tired of your stuff" and "I killed an ant with my guitar" remixed at village recorders, los angeles

• "I want your love inside of me" remixed at American Studios, Nashville

• "Motorboat to heaven" remixed at columbia studios, nashville

• strings on "distance" and marimba on "I killed an ant with my guitar" recorded at village recorders, los angeles

• album cover: bill barnes and julie holiner

press photo

session photo's

John Hiatt is better at imitating Howlin' Wolf than he is James Taylor, and that he tries both here as well as Bob Dylan and Ben E. King is some indication of his ambition, if not his accomplishment. Conversely, be began to become more himself on his second album, at least on such songs as "I'm Tired of Your Stuff" and "I Killed an Ant With My Guitar," if not on the more lugubrious numbers, such as "Distance" or on the ones that sounded like publishing demos for a more popular singer, such as "Down Home."