Little Feat

Essential Albums

  • Dixie Chicken (Deluxe Edition)
    Dixie Chicken (Deluxe Edition)

    1973

  • Sailin' Shoes
    Sailin' Shoes

    Little Feat’s second album, from 1972, is a dusty trove of loose-limbed blues, flinty R&B, and essential rock ’n’ roll. It finds a band heading down a road littered with seamy truck stops and beat motels. It speaks in literate ways of living on biker speed, bad weed, and cheap wine. It’s like there was some great American mythic living inside the head of frontman Lowell George: a guy looking for freedom who wrote and sang songs because he knew there was nothing else in life for him. (To hear just how dicey that existence was, listen to the anthemic opener, “Easy to Slip”). And “Willin’,” which documents a trucker’s life, is one of the most beautiful rock songs of freedom ever recorded (there’s a spare, haunting version on it on their debut album). Then the jittery “Teenage Nervous Breakdown” sounds like George had invited his teenage self along to the recording sessions. The slow-boogie groove and guitars of “Cold, Cold, Cold” are so authentic-sounding that the song takes you straight into the Bukowskian existence it describes.

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About Little Feat

Led by the charismatic Lowell George, L.A. ensemble Little Feat served up their Southern rock with extra dollops of Cajun spice and Dixie boogie-woogie. Following George’s 1979 death, the surviving members reunited in 1987 and became summer-festival fixtures.

HOMETOWN
Los Angeles
FORMED
1969

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