NEW SAMPLER : JOIN THE BAND! EARLY DAYS AND FAVORITE BLUES OF LITTLE FEAT

• Various Artists: Join The Band! Early Days And Favorite Blues Of Little Feat
      (2025, cd, Japan, oldays records)

The band members' musical history prior to the band's formation and the blues numbers they covered are all on this one disc!

So it's not Little Feat, but the music that influenced them, and music by the bands some of the members played in before they joined Little Feat.
Including The Factory with Lowell George, and The Mothers Of Invention, featuring Roy Estrada.

1.Join The Band / John Davis & Group
2.Smile, Let Your Life Begin / The Factory
3.No Place I'd Rather Be / The Factory
4.Trippin' Out / Something Wild
5.Why Don't You Do Me Right / The Mothers Of Invention
6.Forty-Four Blues / Howlin' Wolf
7.How Many More Years / Howlin' Wolf
8.You'll Be Mine / Howlin' Wolf
9.Wang Dang Doodle / Howlin' Wolf
10.Lonesome Whistle / Hank Williams
11.Framed / Coasters
12.Can't Be Satisfied / Muddy Waters
13.They're Red Hot (Hot Tamales) / Robert Johnson
14.You're Taking Up Another Man's Place / Mable John
15.That's A Pretty Good Love / Big Maybelle
16.Last Night / Little Walter
17.It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / Bob Dylan
18.Going Down In Louisiana / Joe Hill Louis
19.Big Road Blues / Tommy Johnson
20.My Daddy Was A Jockey / John Lee Hooker

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

LITTLE FEAT DELUXE RE-ISSUE

Rhino Records is releasing a deluxe edition / re-issue of Little Feat's "The Last Record Album".
Due out on October 24, 2025.

When ordered at the Rhino store, the 4 CD deluxe set will come with a bonus release:
"Live At Charlton Athletic Football Ground London, England, 5/31/76"
(when Lowell George was still in the band)

• Little Feat: Live At Charlton Athletic Football Ground London, England, 5/31/76
      (2025, cd, USA, rhino records)

LITTLE FEAT - STRIKE UP THE BAND

• Little Feat: Strike Up The Band
      (2025, cd, USA, hot tomato records)

Another Little Feat album hit the shelves.
Contrary to the more bluesy "Sam's Place" that got released last year, Little Feat returned to their unmistakable and typical rock / boogie / slide guitar style.

"Strike Up The Band" holds no surprises, but it's a solid and excellent Little Feat album.
Also out on vinyl.
I'm not counting, but those who do tell me that this is album number 40 !!
Time to celebrate !

LITTLE FEAT - FEATS DON'T FAIL ME NOW (50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION)

• little feat: feats don't fail me now
      (2024, 3cd, usa, rhino)

50 candles on the cake for Little Feats' "Feats Don't Fail Me Now".
And the album gets an impressive re-issue !!
 

The  3CD edition offers 12 outtakes/rarities on CD 2 (seven, previously unreleased) and a third disc featuring a previously unreleased live recording.

Lowell George - Slide Guitar, Vocals

Paul Barrere - Guitar, Vocals
Bill Payne - Keyboards, Vocals
Kenny Gradney - Bass
Sam Clayton - Percussion, Vocals
Richie Hayward - Drums, Backing Vocals
Bonnie Raitt - Backing Vocals
Emmy Lou Harris - Backing Vocals
Fran Tate - Backing Vocals

Produced by Lowell George
Album cover by Neon Park

CD 1: Original Album 2024 Remaster

1. Rock and Roll Doctor
2. Oh Atlanta
3. kin It Back
4. Down the Road
5. Spanish Moon
6. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
7. The Fan
8. Medley: Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie

CD 2: Hotcakes, Outtakes & Rarities

1. Brickyard Blues
2. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (Alternate Version)
3. Rock and Roll Doctor (Alternate Version)*
4. Spanish Moon (Alternate Version)*
5. Skin It Back (Alternate Version)*
6. Oh Atlanta (Alternate Version)*
7. All That You Dream (Outtake)
8. Front Page News (Alternate Version)*
9. Long Distance Love (Outtake)*
10. Lonesome Whistle (Alternate Version)*
11. Day at the Dog Races (Outtake)*
12. Spanish Moon (Single Version)

*Previously Unreleased

CD 3: If You Bought It, A Truck Brought It: Live at L’Olympia, Paris, FR, February 3, 1975

1. On Your Way Down*
2. Skin t Back*
3. Fat Man in the Bathtub*
4. Rock and Roll Doctor*
5. Oh Atlanta*
6. Medley: Cold Cold Cold/Dixie
7. Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie*
8. Willin’*
9. Teenage Nervous Breakdown*

*Previously Unreleased

LITTLE FEAT'S "WAITING FOR COLUMBUS" RERELEASED AS AN 8 CD BOX SET

The deluxe re-issue of Little Feat's "Waiting For Columbus" is an 8 CD box !!
Feat. Lowell George and including the Elliot Ingber-penned 'Don't Bogart That Joint'.

This special 8 CD super deluxe edition comprises the original album remastered across CDs 1 and 2 with the remaining 6 discs comprising 3 previously unreleased in full live shows from the original run of live recordings that comprised the Waiting for Columbus album. CDs 3 and 4 include a previously unreleased live show recorded at Manchester City Hall in Manchester, England on July 29, 1977. CDs 5 and 6 include a previously unreleased in full show recorded at The Rainbow in London, England on August 2, 1977. CDs 7 and 8 include a previously unreleased in full live show recorded Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C. on August 10, 1977. It’s a deep dive into truly one of the best live albums ever and is the definitive edition of a classic that truly will "boogie your speakers away.” The 8CD is packaged in a box approx. 7” x 7”; CDs are housed in wallets in cut-out at bottom of box and will feature a 24 page booklet.

LITTLE FEAT BLACK FRIDAY RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE

Little Feat – Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios, 1974 (RSD 2021)

Nestled between the classic LP releases Dixie Chicken and Feats Don’t Fail Me Now and performed for a small and intimate assembled studio audience, this recording finds Little Feat in their prime, live from Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, NY on September 9, 1974. Often discussed as their ‘best’ line up, this recording features the 1974 version of Little Feat containing Lowell George (Guitar, Vocals), Paul Barrere (Guitar, Vocals), Kenny Gradney (Bass), Richie Hayward (Drums, Vocals) Sam Clayton (Percussion, Vocals), and Bill Payne (Keyboards). With excerpts of this performance only available previously as a legendary ‘70s bootleg, this RSD Black Friday release is the first time the full-length performance is available, directly from the original pre-FM broadcast master tapes, and serves as an excellent introduction to one of rock ‘n’ roll’s best – yet criminally unsung – outfits. The recording captures the band cranking out songs from what are arguably two of their three best studio albums, at the pinnacle of their chemistry.

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

 

LITTLE FEAT BOX SETS

I only recently discovered these Little Feat box sets.
I haven't actually seen them, but they sure look impressive.

Featuring Lowell George, Roy Estrada and some more familiar sounding names...
Album / box covers have been added to the United Mutations Archives.

• little feat: rad gumbo - the complete warner bros years 1971 - 1990
      (2014, 13cd, europe, warner music)

• little feat: the broadcast collection
      (2017, 9cd, uk, soundstage)

ANOTHER SET OF 'RADIO SHOW' ALBUMS

Announced for early September

Little Feat & Friends: Little Feat & Friends

from NBC's 'Midnight Special'

1. Intro
2. Queen Of The Silver Dollar – Little Feat w/ Emmylou Harris
3. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat w/ Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt & Jesse Winchester
4. Runaway – Bonnie Raitt w/ Norton Buffalo
5. Rhumba Man - Jesse Winchester
6. Old Folks Boogie - Little Feat
7. I Can't Stand Up Alone – Jesse Winchester w/ Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt
8. Birdland - Weather Report
9. Home - Bonnie Raitt
10. Nothing But A Breeze - Jesse Winchester w/ Emmylou Harris
11. Rocket In My Pocket - Little Feat
12. My Songbird - Emmylou Harris
13. Sugar Mama - Bonnie Raitt
14. Rhumba Mama - Weather Report
15. Teen Town - Weather Report
16. Rock’n’Roll Doctor


Captain Beefheart: Full Moon - Hot Sun Live In Kansas

the KUDL-FM broadcast of the 'Cowtown Ballroom', Kansas, 1974/04/22 concert.


Tom Waits: Foggy Night - Unplugged

the 1974 KPFK radio show.

NEW LITTLE FEAT ALBUM

A new Little Feat album has been spotten : "On The Eastern Front".
Live in Japan, July 1978.

The promo talk :
The release of Little Feat s The Last Record Album in 1975 signaled another change in the group's sound. Following their adoption of a funk style, most notable on their work with The Meters and Robert Palmer the year before, but also on their previous LP, Feats Don t Fail Me Now, Paul Barrere and Bill Payne had developed an interest in jazz rock. George continued to produce the albums, but his songwriting contribution diminished as the group moved into jazz fusion, a style in which he had little interest. In August 1977, Little Feat recorded a live album from gigs at the Rainbow Theatre in London and Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC. Waiting for Columbus is considered by many critics to be among the best live albums of all time, despite significant portions of George's vocals and slide work being over-dubbed later in the studio. It was released in 1978, by which time it had become apparent that Lowell George's interest in the band was waning, as was his health. Indeed Little Feat s first ever tour of Japan - a territory by then hungry for live performances by the band - was initially planned for March 1978, but due to Lowell s physical status, it was delayed until July. But their performance in Tokyo on 8th July finds Lowell George and the entire band on top form, as the performance there given, as included on this CD from a live transmission attests, was exceptional - a strong contender perhaps for the second best live Little Feat live album ever. Featuring a set-list to kill for - a superb selection of songs old and new - one listen to this archive recording suggests a band at their finest, not one on the skids as has sometimes been suggested - not least by Lowell George himself. Soon after the tour, George did some work on what would eventually become Down on the Farm but then declared that Little Feat had disbanded. In an interview with Bill Flanagan (for the book Written In My Soul), George made it clear that he felt the demise of Little Feat was due to his having allowed the band to be run democratically, with the result that Payne and, to a lesser extent, Barrere, had a presence as songwriters and in production which was disproportionate to their abilities. George was particularly scathing about Payne's attempts at jazz fusion. In the same interview, George stated that he planned to reunite Little Feat without Payne and Barrère. Whether or not the planned reunion would have ever gone ahead is, of course, open to conjecture alone, because sadly, while touring in support of his only solo-album Thanks, I'll Eat It Here, Lowell George collapsed in his hotel room in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 34. An autopsy determined the cause of death was a heart attack, although it is considered likely that his excess weight, drug use, and the strain of touring contributed to his condition. This concert, performed almost exactly one year before Lowell s untimely passing, is a fine tribute to a master musician and exceptional songwriter, as well as to a legendary band who - despite some unfortunate opinions which may well have been retracted had the opportunity arisen - remained, until the true ending of the classic-line-up, an exceptional and legendary group who continue, almost 40 years later, to delight and fascinate fans old and new.

LITTLE FEAT UPDATE

A 'new' Little Feat album has been announced : "Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA, Friday 31st October 1975".
Double vinyl album. Taken from an FM radio show.

NEW 'RADIO BROADCAST' LITTLE FEAT ALBUM ANNOUNCED

"St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Winterland Arena Broadcast San Francisco 1976" is another 'radio broadcast' album that is being released in the UK.

Features Lowell George.

• RARE LIVE LITTLE FEAT RADIO BROADCAST FROM 1976
• This concert, when Little Feat was opening for Jeff Lyne’s Electric Light Orchestra, remains one of their mostlegendary performances.
• Originally broadcast live on KSAN radio, this concert has been heavily bootlegged in the past.• This fantastic performance captures the band playing their funky New Orleans flavored rock like no one else.
• Also highlighted is Lowell Georges unique slide guitar playing.

LITTLE FEAT BOX SET

"Rad Gumbo" is a box of 13 Little Feat CDs.

It's Little Feat's complete Warner Bros. years, including bonus material.

1. Little Feat

2. Sailin' Shoes

3. Dixie Chicken

4. Feats Don't Fail Me Now

5. The Last Record Album

6. Time Loves A Hero

7. Waiting For Columbus

8. Bonus disc from the expanded edition of Waiting For Columbus

9. Down On The Farm

10. Hoy-Hoy!

11. Let It Roll

12. Representing The Mambo

13. Outtakes From Hotcakes