Extended Versions

Performer: Little Feat
Distributor: BMG Special Products

Notes: A budget-line collection, marketed primarily to truck stops across this great land of ours (and, to quote Lester Burnham, "how perfect is that?"), the 10-track Extended Versions: The Encore Collection contains a selection of live tracks cut by the reunited Little Feat in the early '90s, when they were affiliated with Zoo Records (a subsidiary of RCA, thereby explaining this BMG release). This really isn't all that bad, actually, though it's hardly among prime Feat and it does suffer from a production that's just a bit too crystalline. Nevertheless, the reunited Feat still could lay down an effective groove and they have a great selection of songs here, highlighted by "Feets Don't Fail Me Now," "Fat Man in the Bathtub," "Oh Atlanta," and "Hate to Lose Your Lovin'." Although the songs of relatively recent vintage that conclude the record damper enthusiasm somewhat, this is stuff that will appeal to a dedicated fan looking for decent (albeit unexceptional) compilation of reunited live recordings. Not a great disc, but not a bad one, either. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Los Angeles' Little Feat served up a polymorphic gumbo of New Orleans funk, southern boogie, and blues rock with the soulful slide guitar, worn voice, and tremendous country-tinged songwriting of leader Lowell George as its main ingredients. Founded by George and pianist Bill Payne in 1969, Little Feat released a couple of straighter blues rock albums before embracing an infectious, Meters-like groove in their rhythm section (Roy Estrada and Richie Hayward of the Mothers of Invention). Despite a run of critically acclaimed albums throughout the '70s--and George's continuing excellence as a songwriter--the band broke up in 1979 shortly after George died. Reformed versions of Little Feat continued to release records and tour in the ensuing decades.

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