Jazz Articles about Little Feat

Little Feat in Little Rock

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2007

Little Feat Riverfront Amphitheater Little Rock, Arkansas June 11, 2007

During early June in Little Rock, it is nearly impossible not to anticipate John Milton's scorching, punishing Hell (Chain'd on the burning Lake) that is surely to come in August. But this particular spring night on the bank of the Arkansas River is far from Paradise Lost. In fact, conditions could not have been more perfect when Little Feat took the Riverfront ...

Little Feat: Barnstormin

by C. Michael Bailey
May 7, 2006

Little Feat whet our appetite with the release of Barnstormin' Live, Volume One last year. A second volume has just been released and the two have been packaged together. Since the band's reformation in 1988, it has released numerous live recordings, including the archival releases Raw Tomatoes, Volume 1 & Ripe Tomatoes, Volume 1 and three contemporary live recordings, High Wire Act Live in St. Louis, Down Upon the Suwannee River and Live at Rams Head. These recent live recordings ...

Little Feat: Barnstormin

by C. Michael Bailey
June 7, 2005

Little Feat remains one of the more enduring bands to have emerged out of the 1970s. This endurance is manifest in both the group's longevity and continually fresh creativity. Since leaving the major label realm and starting Hot Tomato Records, the band has released numerous archival (Raw Tomatoes, Volume 1 & Ripe Tomatoes, Volume 1) and contemporary recordings (High Wire Act Live in St. Louis, Kickin' It at the Barn, Down Upon the Suwannee River, and Live at Rams Head) ...

Little Feat: Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2004

Little Feat Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003 Hot Tomato 2004

Little Feat and the Allman Brothers Band have much in common. Both bands incurred losses of integral personnel (Lowell George in the case of Little Feat and Duane Allman in the case of the Allman Brothers Band). Both bands realized a fallow, sub-productive period following these losses. And both bands emerged from the 20th Century with a second wind that can be ...

Little Feat: Kickin' It at the Barn

by C. Michael Bailey
October 16, 2003

Kickin' It at the Barn is Little Feat's first studio album since 2000?s Chinese Work Songs. Its release and promotion coincided with the 2003 full acoustic tour and appropriately so. The disc is replete with acoustic numbers and represents quite a departure from recent recordings. Thus,Children, this is not your parents' Little Feat. This is a band that has moved on, its players digging deeper into their own muse, their creativity expanding ...

Little Feat: Down Upon the Suwannee River

by C. Michael Bailey
September 25, 2003

Little Feat follows up their acoustic live album ...At Rams Head with this electric live recording, Down Upon the Suwannee River. The new live recording was captured on 36 tracks out in the woods of Suwannee, Florida before an appreciative crowd. Post-Lowell George live Little Feat has been characterized by wall-of-sound mixing that takes advantage of the sheer power as a live band Little Feat is able to express. This power is evident on Live From Neon Park, but was ...

Little Feat: An Acoustic Evening with Little Feat Live at the Rams Head

by C. Michael Bailey
November 19, 2002

Barefoot...

Live At the Rams Head is Little Feat’s Unplugged. Culled from shows held at the famed Annapolis Maryland nightspot between June 19th and the 22nd before an intimate crowd of about 200, Rams Head is a slanted look at the band’s thirty-year repertoire. Gratefully, I noted several stock songs not present. "Dixie Chicken," "Fat Man In the Bath Tub," and "Sailing Shoes," as well as "Apolitical Blues" and "Two Trains" are all missing in action. That is fine. With ...