VARIOUS ARTISTS - ROCK AND ROLL DOCTOR - LOWELL GEORGE TRIBUTE ALBUM

• Various Artists: Rock And Roll Doctor - Lowell George Tribute Album
      (2026, 2lp, --, omnivore recordings)

Omnivore Records released a 2 LP vinyl version of the 1997 "Rock And Roll Doctor - Lowell George Tribute Album" CD.
If my info is correct the album will also get a CD re-issue, and it will be made available on digital musical platforms as well.

Listen to the below YouTube clip.
Goosebumps.

"LONG DISTANCE LOVE" - - - A TRIBUTE TO LOWELL GEORGE

Long Distance Love - A Sweet Relief Tribute to Lowell George

Lowell George was the guitar virtuoso, vocalist, and songwriter for Little Feat. In this collection of 25 songs, artists such as Elvis Costello, Ben Harper, and Dave Alvin interpret and perform his diverse catalog. George, born in Hollywood, California, was a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Inventions before leaving that band and forming Little Feat with Bill Payne. Lowell’s tenure in the band was for 7 years until his death, and in that time, they released eight albums. While George died in 1979, his legacy lives on through this album. In this new double LP, Sweet Relief, the organization that provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet, has come up with a gem.

Out on 2 LP; 2 CD and download/streaming Bandcamp.
(A May 2024 release on the Flatirons record label)

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

KATHY DALTON - AMAZING

Originally released as "Amazing" in 1973 on Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen's Discreet record label, Cathy Dalton's debut album featured Little Feat (including Lowell George), plus Jay Migliori.
And the album got engineered by Kerry McNabb !

1974 saw the re-release as "Boogie Bands And One Night Stands".

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

LOWELL GEORGE RSD 2024

Lowell George's "Thanks I’ll Eat It Here" is getting a 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

To be released on RSD 2024.

Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the cult classic solo album from Little Feat founder Lowell George. Released weeks before his untimely death in 1979, this exclusive Record Store Day reissue Includes the original album cut from the original master tapes and a bonus album including previously unreleased alternate versions and outtakes from the recording sessions plus liner notes from the George family.

LITTLE FEAT

I mentioned the deluxe re-release of Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" a little while ago.
In the meantime, both "Sailin' Shoes" (1972) and "Dixie Chicken" (1973) have been remastered and reissued with lots of bonus material.
And both albums sound great !

Feat. Lowell George and Roy Estrada. (Roy only on "Sailin' Shoes")

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/little-feat-sailin-shoes-and-dixie-chicken-deluxe-editions/

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A snippet from Rockpalast from 1977:

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

 

LOWELL GEORGE

Lowell George had recently separated from Little Feat and was touring to promote his solo LP "Thanks I'll Eat It Here". 

Sadly, Lowell passed away June 29, 1979;

• Armando Compean - Bass
• Don Heffington - Drums
• Eddie Zip - Organ
• Peter Wasner - Piano
• Fred Tackett - Guitar
• Jerry Jumonville - Saxophone
• Lee Thornberg - Trumpet
• Maxine Dixon - Backing Vocals
• Lowell George - Lead Vocal & Slide Guitar

1. Intro Jam 00:00​
2. Fat Man in the Bathtub 06:40​
3. Honest Man 11:29​
4. What Do You Want the Girl to Do 15:30​
5. I Can't Stand the Rain 20:38​
6. Easy Money 24:03​
7. Rocket In My Pocket 28:16​
8. A Apolitical Blues 31:41​
9. Two Trains 40:16​
10. Dixie Chicken 45:01​
11. Harlem Nocturne 57:46​
12. Twenty Million Things 1:02:32​
13. Willin' 1:05:42​
14. Spanish Moon 1:11:12

-- info: Danny Mathys

LOWELL GEORGE ON VOCALS IN THIS GTO'S DEMO RECORDING

The YouTube info said :
Frank Zappa gave this record to my Aunt, Miss Christine of the GTOS. Its a rare demo version of one of the songs from the GTOS album Mercy's Tune (I have a Paint Brush in my Hand to Color a Triangle) before Mercy sang it with the full band that Zappa used for the song. Lowell George sang this rare demo.
Written by Miss Mercy. This is a song about a lovers triangle which involves Brian Jones, Bernardo B.T.O and Miss Mercy.
This demo 45 rpm record came from my Aunts personal record collection. Same song on both sides.

-- info: FB

LOWELL GEORGE AND LINDA RONSTADT - LIVE IN MARYLAND '74

• lowell george with linda rondstadt and friends: live in maryland '74
      (2018, cd, uk, roxvox, rvcd2091)

Radio show with special guests Lowell George and Linda Ronstadt.
Lowell performed a couple of songs live in the studio and talks about Little Feat, Roy Estrada and Frank Zappa, among other things.
Not the best quality, but interesting.

LOWELL GEORGE RADIO SHOW ALBUM

A Lowell George and Linda Ronstadt 'radio show' album :
"Live In Maryland '74"

Lowell George with Linda Ronstadt at friends, live from the WHFS Studio in Maryland on March 19th 1974. On March 19, 1974, Lowell George and Linda Ronstadt dropped into Bethesda, Maryland radio station WHFS-FM to chat about music, touring, and records, as well as informally play a few tunes. The program was broadcast live and featured George and Ronstadt dueting on unplugged versions of Heartache (later a hit for Suzy Bogguss) and Sailin Shoes. They also did George's classic Willin with help from a few friends, and Lowell performs a solo version of another of his compositions, China White.

BARBARA KEITH

Barbara Keith recorded and released an album with Kangaroo in 1968.
In 1973, she recorded a solo album for the Reprise label.
Guests on the album included a.o. Max Bennett, Lowell George, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Jim Gordon !

Read more here :
http://rockasteria.blogspot.com/2013/10/barbara-keith-barbara-keith-1973-us.html

-- 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)

LITTLE FEAT

Lowell George / Little Feat.

LITTLE FEAT RADIO SHOW LIVE BOX

"Don't Need No Alibis (The Lowell George Years" is a 10 CD box set that is up for release next March.
All radio broadcasts and interviews.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE - 13 SOCIETY

• eugene chadbourne: 13 society
      (2015, cdr, usa, private release)

Eugene Chadbourne recently released a couple of new albums. These are typical DIY CDR-releases, each CDR coming in a package that has been fabricated by Eugene Chadbourne himself.

"13 Society" presents a number of original tunes next to some excellen coverversions.
Eugene Chadbourne on banjo, vocals, guitar, dobro, and Rogier Smal on drums.

The album includes Lowell George's 'Willin'' as well as Captain Beefheart's 'Steal Softly Through...'.

1. 13 society (eugene chadbourne)
2. on the road to find out (yusef islam)
3. willin' (lowell george)
4. colors for susan (country joe mcdonald)
5. it's no secret (marty balin)
6. cherish (terry kirkman)
7. cold gravy (eugene chadbourne)
8. steal softly through sunshine (don van vliet)
9. melancholy time (eugene chadbourne)

http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/

EUGENE CHADBOURNE

Eugene Chadbourne has released a couple of new album.
The latest one, "The 13 Society" includes Eugene Chadbourne and Rogier Small performing Lowell George's 'Willin'', as well as Don Van Vliet's 'Steal Softly Through Sunshine'.

http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/

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.