Releasing as a 2CD set, this edition includes the original album, newly remastered from the original master tapes, alongside a bonus disc of rare, previously unreleased alternate versions and outtakes from their early recording sessions.
It sold poorly (around 11,000 copies) and the band never cut anything like it again, but Little Feat‘s eponymous debut isn’t just one of their finest records, it’s one of the great lost rock & roll albums. Even dedicated fans tend to overlook the album, largely because it’s the polar opposite of the subtly intricate, funky rhythm & roll that made their reputation during the mid-’70s. Little Feat is a raw, hard-driving, funny and affectionate celebration of American weirdness, equal parts garage rock, roadhouse blues…
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The four-CD Deluxe Edition of the set includes a remastered version of the original album, discs of rarities and previously unreleased songs, and a live show recorded just weeks after the album’s release in October 1975.
…Though The Last Record Album was not Little Feat’s final effort, it did mark a significant change in the band’s process. Frontman, producer and songwriter Lowell George ceded some compositional ground to keyboardist Bill Payne and guitarist Paul Barrere. Their growing interest in jazz fusion would push the band away from the southern-inspired boogie rock George favored. (He sang lead on five of the album’s nine tracks, and wrote or co-wrote only three.) Despite this increasingly fractious arrangement,…
Nobody, including the members of Little Feat, expected the band to still be an active entity 55 years after releasing their 1970 debut. But through the decades and with more ups, downs and personnel changes than Fleetwood Mac, they have persevered in one form or another.
Over the past few years Feat have been as productive on the road as in their mid-’70s Lowell George/Paul Barrere/Richie Hayward (all since passed), heyday. Two recent studio releases — adding to 16 previous ones (there are also 10 live discs) — likewise display renewed vigor.
Strike Up the Band, the second of those, follows the GRAMMY nominated ‘Sam’s Place,’ last year’s vibrant exploration of blues covers sung by longtime percussionist Sam Clayton.