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Christgau's Record Guide	B[2]

Overcoats is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's second album, released in 1975.^[1] It is his second and last album for Epic Records.

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

• 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