The Best Of Little Feat

Performer: Little Feat
Engineer: Donn Landee; Ed Cherney; George Massenburg; Michael Boshears; Andy Bloch; Ray Thompson; Robert Appere; Rudy Hill; Warren Dewey; Bob Kovach
Producer: Lowell George; Bill Payne; Ed Cherney; Paul Barrèe; George Massenburg; Russ Titelman; Ted Templeman; Bill Wray; James Austin (Compilation)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Little Feat: Paul Barr�re (vocals, guitars, dobro, dulcimer, harmonica); Kenny Gradney (vocals, electric bass); Craig Fuller (guitars, accordion); Fred Tackett (guitars); Roy Estrada (electric bass); Sam Clayton (background vocals); Lowell George, Richard Hayward, Shaun Murphy, Bill Payne. Personnel: Fred Tackett (vocals, guitar, dobro, mandolin, trumpet); Lowell George (vocals, guitar, harmonica, cowbells); Craig Fuller (vocals, guitar); Paul Barr�e (vocals, dobro, dulcimer, harmonica); Bill Payne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, marimba); Richard Hayward (vocals, drums, percussion); Sam Clayton (vocals, congas, percussion); Shaun Murphy (vocals, percussion); Kenny Gardney, Roy Estrada (vocals). Audio Mixer: Donn Landee. Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: Bud Scoppa. Photographers: Michael Putland; Susan Titelman. While it's easy to think of Little Feat as nothing more than a typical Southern-fried 1970s boogie band, they are in fact a case study in what happens to a musical stew that sits in the sun of downtown L.A. for a little too long. Little Feat combined divergent pop styles--from funk and R&B to country and rock--and funneled them through a smog-baked, drugged-out style distinctly its own. Rhino's 17-track BEST OF (the first single-disc retrospective of the band) tracks the entirety of Little Feat's 20-year-plus career, featuring tracks from the band's Lowell George-led heyday, as well as those recorded after the band's 1988 reunion nearly 10 years after George's death.

Dirty Linen (p.63) - "The one factor that set Little Feat apart from its peers was the unique, swamp-infested slide playing of the band's leader Lowell George."

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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