Artist: John Hiatt Title: Hangin' Around The Observatory & Overcoats Year Of Release: 1974-75/2006 Label: BGO Records Genre: Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Country Blues, Americana, Singer Songwriter Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log) Total Time: 01:18:18

Tracklist: Hangin' Around The Observatory (1974): 01. Maybe Baby, Say You Do 02. Whistles in My Ears 03. Sure as I'm Sittin' Here 04. Rose 05. Hangin' Around the Observatory 06. Full Moon 07. Wild-Eyed Gypsies 08. It's All Right with Me 09. Little Blue Song for You 10. Ocean

Overcoats (1975): 11. One More Time 12. Smiling in the Rain 13. I'm Tired of Your Stuff 14. Distance 15. Down Home 16. Overcoats 17. I Want Your Love Inside of Me 18. I Killed an Ant with My Guitar 19. Motorboat to Heaven 20. The Lady of the Night

England's Beat Goes On repackages John Hiatt's first two offerings from 1974 and 1975 respectively. There are clues in these albums as to what Hiatt would become at his peak with A&M: the excess in his verbiage and exaggeration of his singing dynamic that would make him a caricature of himself on later records (as on the truly awful Randy Newman rip-off album Living a Little, Laughing a Little in 1996, where it seemed like he was caricaturing Newman but he only really made fun of himself. These records waiver between trying a Van Morrison workout on the former and a James Taylor saccharine on the latter. Only Hiatt diehards will even contemplate this, the rest of his more casual fans should be forewarned