Jazz Articles about Little Feat

Little Feat: Raw Tomatos, Volume 1 & Ripe Tomatos, Volume 1

by C. Michael Bailey
September 13, 2002

It Has Been a Good Century for Little Feat

Since the turn of the new century, record stores have been treated to a variety of previously unreleased live Little Feat. This music has taken the form of the quasi-bootleg Pilot release, Late Night Truck Stop , the newly rejuvenated Waiting for Columbus (in this humble critics mind, the greatest Rock Live Recording ever), and the Rhino Box Set Hotcakes and Outtakes . All of these collections sport previously unreleased live ...

Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus, The Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2002

It was almost two years ago that I completed my survey of the Ten Best Live Rock Recordings. At the time, I stated that the order of the recordings really depended on what day I was asked. Today, I return to reconsider the top of that Top Ten List. I previously ranked The Allman Brothers Band's The Fillmore Concert as Number One and Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus as Number Two. I did this because I did not consider Columbus ...

Little Feat: Late Night Truck Stop

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2001

July 19, 1973, Ebbetsfield Colorado. I am not sure of the propriety of this release on Pilot Records. The Little Feat Ebbetsfield Concert in 1973 has been a famous bootleg since it appeared. Recorded for radio, Late Night Truck Stop represents a complete Little Feat set. However it got into commercial production, this set is an important addition to the Little Feat discography. It contains tracks from the first three albums and was recorded around the time Dixie Chicken had ...

Little Feat: Extended Versions: The Encore Collection

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2001

Little Feat not exactly batting a thousand.

Ain't Had Enough Fun (1995) and Live From Neon Park (1996) were two releases by the reunited Little Feat, sans Lowell George, released on Zoo Records. Zoo Records is a subsidiary of RCA, now a part of Bertelsmann, explaining the BMG Special Products Label gracing the Little Feat Extended Versions: The Encore Collection. This budget CD contains music ostensibly culled from the band's live performances during the tour that produced Live From Neon ...

Little Feat: Hotcakes and Outtakes-- 30 Years of Little Feat

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 2001

The Synthetic Method of Little Feat made it the savior of American Music in the 1970s.

Little Feat is America’s enigmatic icon. Their music immediately accessible and no one but the faithful managed to accept it. “Dixie Chicken”, a sardonic tome by genius Lowell George, was fully received by the redneck intelligentsia of as gospel, instead of the parody as it was intended. It is sad when one does not know when one is being made fun of.

Rhino, in ...

Little Feat: Chinese Work Songs

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2000

Feats Don't Fail Me Now. I am a druggist by trade and in my studies I was required to take classes in organic chemistry, which when I took the courses prior to pharmacy school, never made a bit of sense to me. However, when I had to take medicinal organic chemistry-- the synthesis of medications, in application--organic chemistry made perfect sense to me. Likewise is my relationship with the music of Little Feat. Prior to 1978, I had bought several ...