Jazz Articles about Little Feat

Ben Fong-Torres: Willin’ - The Story of Little Feat

by C. Michael Bailey
December 21, 2013

Willin': The Story of Little Feat Ben Fong-Torres 298 pages ISBN: 0306821311 Da Capo Press 2013 Musically speaking, Southern California in the late-1960s, early- 1970s was the musical post-hippie equivalent of impressionist Paris in the late nineteenth century. So dense was the musical talent in the Los Angeles area, that reading any history of it would have you believe there was a Frank Zappa or the Eagles on every corner across the ...

Little Feat: Little Rock, AR, September 10, 2012

by C. Michael Bailey
September 30, 2012

Little FeatRevolution RoomLittle Rock, ARSeptember 12, 2012 Mother Nature finally exhaled, and the brutal Southern Summer of 2012 came to a curious end, producing what passed for an electric blue Monday evening. The temperature and humidity were both blessedly low and sitting on the sidewalk of Little Rock's River Market District was enjoyable, if not complete bliss. A 40-year old urban renewal promise, the River Market District is one of the things the city ...

Little Feat: Rooster Rag

by C. Michael Bailey
September 1, 2012

Too often lumped in with jam bands like Phish, String Cheese Incident or Widespread Panic, Little Feat more properly belongs with The Allman Brothers Band, which developed a greater popularity early on before settling in for largely improvisatory concerts based on its own band book and covers. Little Feat diverge from the ABB in that it has released two studio albums of new material, 2003's Kickin' it At the Barn (Hot Tomato) and the present Rooster Rag, to the Brothers' ...

Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus

by C. Michael Bailey
April 29, 2012

...He's got two degrees in Bebop, a Ph.D in Swing, he's the master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king?" The art of slide guitar, that method of playing using a metal or glass tube and sliding it on guitar strings typically tuned to an open chord, such as Gmaj or Emaj, achieved its modern quasar in the Allman Brothers Band's leader, Duane Allman. He emerged, as if shot from a cannon, revolutionizing the style between ...

Little Feat: Skin It Back: Live in Germany

by Doug Collette
January 3, 2010

Little Feat Skin It Back: Live in Germany Eagle Vison 2009

When the original four-man lineup of Little Feat splintered, founding members guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Lowell George, keyboardist/vocalist Bill Payne and drummer/vocalist Richie Hayward enlisted percussionistSam Clayton, bassist Kenny Gradney (from Delaney and Bonnie's band) and guitarist Paul Barrere, at the same time adopting an approach rooted in the second-line rhythm of the Meters. Little wonder then Payne takes a piano solo in the middle of ...

Little Feat at A Taste of Colorado

by Geoff Anderson
September 13, 2008

Little Feat A Taste of Colorado Denver August 29, 2008

About half way through “Spanish Moon" I started thinking about the concept that I didn't really need to be at this show because I just saw Little Feat back in May and again last summer. But isn't that kind of like saying, “I just had dinner last night, why have it again tonight?" Look, if one of your all-time favorite bands from the ...

Join The Band

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2008

The album title Join The Band derives from an entrance processional Little Feat sang a cappella when taking the stage during those high holy days with guitarist Lowell George. A rendition may be heard opening the band's famous live recording, Waiting For Columbus (Warner Bros, 1978). Lowell, of course, passed in 1979. Thirty years later, the phrase is resurrected as the title of the present disc. Keyboard player Bill Payne opines that Join The Band is a summation ...