Overcoats (album) explained

Overcoats
Type:	Album
Artist:	John Hiatt
Border:	yes
Released:	1975
Studio:	American Studios, Nashville; The Village Recorder, Los Angeles
Genre:	Rock
Length:	39:59
Label:	Epic
Producer:	Glen Spreen
Prev Title:	Hangin' Around the Observatory
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Slug Line
Next Year:	1979

Overcoats is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's second album, released in 1975. It is his second and last album for Epic Records.

Track listing

All tracks written and arranged by John Hiatt

1. "One More Time" – 3:40
2. "Smiling in the Rain" – 4:19
3. "I'm Tired of Your Stuff" – 3:36
4. "Distance" – 3:34
5. "Down Home" – 3:11
6. "Overcoats" – 6:50
7. "I Want Your Love Inside of Me" – 3:12
8. "I Killed an Ant With My Guitar" – 3:26
9. "Motorboat to Heaven" – 5:27
10. "The Lady of the Night" – 3:10

Personnel

• John Hiatt – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, percussion, piano, vocals
• Ted Reynolds – bass guitar
• Larrie Londin – drums
• Shane Keister – piano, electric piano, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes

with:

• John Huey – steel guitar on "Motorboat to Heaven" and "The Lady of the Night"
• Josh Graves – dobro on "Motorboat to Heaven" and "The Lady of the Night"
• Bobby Emmons – organ on "I'm Tired of Your Stuff"
• Gene Estes – marimba on "I Killed an Ant With My Guitar"
• Tracy Nelson, Anita Baugh, Dianne Davidson, Sadie – backing vocals on "Motorboat to Heaven"
• Samuel Boghossian – viola on "Distance"
• Allan Harshman – viola on "Distance"
• Jesse Ehrlich – cello on "Distance"
• Billy Puett – clarinet, flute, recorder, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Norman Ray – baritone saxophone
• Irving Kane – trombone
• George Tidwell – trumpet, horn arrangements