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Overview by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, March 1975
Sailin' Shoes (Warner Bros K46156)Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros K46200)Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warner Bros K56030) ...
Live Review by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 13 September 2000
THERE WERE THREE groups who vividly chronicled life in post-Woodstock America. The Band sought refuge from the psychedelic intensity of the period in the country's ...
Audio interviews
Little Feat's Bill Payne and Paul Barrere (2008)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 26 April 2008
Messrs. Payne and Barrere look back at their time in the great Little Feat, album by album.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 64.6mb, total interview length: 1h 10' 38" sound quality: * (phone)
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Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 30 March 1972
NOW, HERE'S A BAND with a mission. Little Feat is hewn from the same piece of oak as the Byrds, the Band, and the Flying ...
Little Feat, Osibisa: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1972
FEW INDEED are the groups whose emergence has been heralded by more glowing reviews than Little Feat. It's my guess, though, that few indeed who ...
Little Feat: Sailin' Shoes (Warner Brothers 2600)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, July 1972
THERE WAS A time, a few months back, when I worried whether or not I'd ever behold the coming of a second Little Feat album. ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 February 1973
EVERY NOW and then a group comes along that can move smoothly from one type of music to another — always producing a joyous feeling ...
The Continuing Saga Of Little Feat
Interview by John Morthland, Creem, March 1973
DESPITE REPORTS published in nearly every existing music paper that Little Feat has broken up, it ain't so. Understandably, Lowell George is mightily pissed off. ...
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
SINCE SAILIN' Shoes, the group's last album, asthmatic Pachuco bass-player Roy Estrada, formerly of The Mothers, has departed to join Captain Beefheart under the pseudonym ...
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros.)
Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, April 1973
LOWELL GEORGE is probably the best ear-to-the-earth, eye-on-the-bar-line writer of folk-themed rock and roll this side of Robbie Robertson, and Dixie Chicken by Little Feat ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973
LIKE THEIR much more famous cousins, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison, Little Feat are eclectic in a vertical rather than a horizontal way. They ...
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 19 April 1973
SPARKLING PLENTY ...
Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, June 1973
I WANT TO talk on the grass in the sun. Lowell George wants to be interviewed while sitting in the cockpit of a movie prop ...
Profile by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 14 July 1973
LITTLE FEAT'S Dixie Chicken is possibly the finest rock record to have come from the other side of the Atlantic since the Allman Brothers were unleashed on ...
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros.)
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, September 1973
CATEGORIZING ROCK is of pretty limited usefulness. Unlike terms in other music that refer to specific and exactly defined forms, rock labels merely indicate broad, ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
IT WOULD be difficult to count the number of musicians who have eulogised about Little Feat over the past year. This little known band from ...
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warners BS2784)
Review by Tom Vickers, Midnight Sun, 3 October 1974
Feats is cult ...
Little Feat, Deadly Nightshade: Bottom Line, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974
OUT OF the West Coast but with their hearts in Dixie, rolling along, all grits'n'boogie, coasting from basic rock blues to bar-and-grill country, Little Feat ...
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warner Bros.)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
HERE THEY come again, those six hazy L.A. razor boys with the penchant for wry lyrics and poppin' their thang in public. Still intact, still ...
Little Feat: Real Dixie Chickens
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 January 1975
LITTLE FEAT come to Europe with a high reputation to live up to. While the Doobie Brothers headline one of the two nights at each ...
Doobie Brothers/Little Feat: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975
CURIOUSER and curiouser. There was no denying the deserving nature of the ovation that greeted Little Feat the boogie band that plays more music than ...
Lowell George: Huge Stars Big Hearts And Little Feat
Profile and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, March 1975
AFTER THEIR PHENOMENALLY successful visit to this country, the name Little Feat must be on the tip of everyone's tongues and in the heart of ...
Little Feat: Giant Steps Across The Sea
Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 10 April 1975
JACKSON BROWNE said that their founder was "the Orson Welles of rock & roll" and Jimmy Page has called them his "favorite American group." ...
Little Feat, Allen Toussaint: Beacon Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 21 April 1975
LITTLE FEAT HEARD IN RELAXED BLUES ...
Little Feat: Philosophy of the Feat
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 3 May 1975
"LITTLE FEAT are flukes," says Lowell George, "and the flukes just can't be stopped. In the end they balance out the monstrosities of 'formula' music." ...
Little Feat, Allen Toussaint: Little Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Record Mirror, 10 May 1975
LITTLE THEATRE — once a rather seedy showcase home for acts that couldn't make the bigger circuits — has undergone a recent facelift and is ...
Little Feat: The Valley Of The Punks
Profile and Interview by John Morthland, Creem, September 1975
IT HAPPENS TO Little Feat most everywhere they go in Europe, and sometimes even in the States. People just naturally assume they are from Texas, ...
Little Feat: The Last Record Album (Warner Bros. BS2882)
Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, November 1975
DESPITE ITS grim title, Little Feat's fifth album is the work of a band very much alive, its best songs charged with strong ideas, exciting ...
Little Feat: The Last Record Album (Warner Brothers K56156)
Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 8 November 1975
Feat on their knees... ...
Profile and Interview by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, December 1975
LOWELL GEORGE is ravaged, eyes wired with fatigue beneath the peak of a floppy leather poorboy cap, face pallid against the dark beard. He smiles ...
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 December 1975
ONCE UPON a time in the early '60s when everybody suddenly started getting paranoid about advertising men, and half the people you met were convinced ...
Little Feat: Interview with Bill Payne
Interview by Don Snowden, Pasadena Guardian, Summer 1975
BILL PAYNE is a little freaked with L.A. rock fans. Clearly tired from the strain of Little Feat’s four night stand, he is really looking ...
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, February 1976
the last record review ...
Little Feat: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976
In Southern California this year, Little Feat have presented their musical wares opening shows for ELO, the Who and Dave Mason. Consequently, 1976 has seen ...
Little Feat: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 15 May 1976
EVERYBODY WHO is anybody caught Little Feat during their recent three-night stand at the Roxy. That includes Lowell George's mother, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Frampton, Tommy ...
Presenting The Open Crotch, Maximum Uplift Little Feat
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 May 1976
IF YOU walk down Hollywood Boulevard you really can see all the stars. Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, James Dean, all imbedded in a ...
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 June 1976
"Will the people on the lighting tower please get-off because it's very dangerous and we are afraid that tower might go" – Nicky Horne, Capital ...
Little Feat/The Outlaws: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976
THE OUTLAWS ARE really pretty much your standard ranch stash. Three lead guitars primed to shit-kicking yee-ha, mighty purty 'n' all but lame beneath the ...
Little Feat: Time Loves A Hero (Warners)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977
MIGHT AS WELL jump in at the deep end and ask you to indulge in some consumer advice research. ...
Little Feat, Little River Band: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1977
Big Step Forward for Little Feat ...
Little Feat: Time Loves A Hero (Warner Bros. BS 3015)
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, July 1977
FEATS HAVE FAILED ME NOW ...
Little Feat:The Rock and Roll Doctors
Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock Around The World, 12 July 1977
IF RAVE PRESS NOTICES and the acclaim of their fellow musicians were the standard measure of success in the rock world, Little Feat would surely ...
Lowell's retreat from Little Feat
Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1977
WASHINGTON DC. — "When we really get going we can play music as complex as Weather Report or Herbie Hancock," Little Feat pianist Bill Payne ...
Little Feat: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 August 1977
FEAT HEAD OFF FOR FRAMPTON ZONE?!! ...
Little Feat: In the lap of the gods? "Jeez, I don't know about that"
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 6 August 1977
FORGIVE ME, Father, for I have sinned. I did not genuflect every time Lowell George spliced Fender guitar with bottleneck last night. ...
Fear and Loathing in Little Feat?
Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 3 September 1977
LOWELL GEORGE IS NOT HAPPY. BILL PAYNE IS BEING DIPLOMATIC. THRILLS IS ALL EARS. ...
Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus (Warner Brothers)
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 1978
WHOEVER started the vogue for double live albums (the Band?) has a lot to answer for. Whether pretty good (Bob Seger, J. Geils) or embarrassingly ...
Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 18 February 1978
IF IT'S DEAD, IT'S SIX FEAT UNDER ...
Lowell George Walks Alone......
Profile by Mark Leviton, BAM, 1 September 1978
...and Gives Those Little Feat a Rest ...
Little Feat: Columbus Ship Arrives
Interview by Mark Bliesener, Rocket, November 1978
LITTLE FEAT and Rock 'n' Roll have roomed together for quite a while. It was back in '69 that the band was christened by Jimmy ...
Lowell George: A Feat Of His Own
Review and Interview by Mark Leviton, Blank Space, December 1978
FOR YEARS, fans of Little Feat have heard rumours about a solo album being prepared by Lowell George, the group's main songwriter, lead guitarist and ...
Lowell George: Time Loves A Hero
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Sweet Potato, July 1979
IT'S EERIE and disturbing news to learn about the death of someone with whom you had enjoyed a long and enjoyable conversation just a few ...
Lowell George hangs up his sailing shoes
Obituary by David Hepworth, uncredited writer, Sounds, 7 July 1979
LOWELL GEORGE, founder and leader of Little Feat, collapsed and died in Washington DC last Friday. Thirty-four-year-old George, father of four children, had just started ...
Lowell George: The Rock'n'Roll Doctor
Obituary by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
Of all the hundreds of white boys who fell in love with the blues, few used the idiom with such brilliance as Lowell George. Singer, ...
Lowell George: Festive Wake for an Enigma
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979
"I FEEL LIKE I'm in an old MGM photo," cracked Bonnie Raitt as she and the other participants in tonight's "Tribute to Lowell George" concert ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979
Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...
Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979
IT'S IRONIC that Little Feat were never adjudged sufficiently commercial to have headlined a concert at Los Angeles' massive Forum, since the place was bursting ...
Little Feat: Down On The Farm (Warner Brothers K56667)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 November 1979
LITTLE FEAT'S final agonies were so prolonged and so well publicised that it's a surprise to discover in Down On The Farm a comparatively coherent ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 February 1980
DOWN ON the Farm is Little Feat's best-selling album ever — but don't chalk that up as merely a posthumous tribute to Lowell George, the ...
Little Feat : A Fan Remembers America's Greatest Unsung Band
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 28 August 1981
LOS ANGELES – I have in my closet a roll of grainy 8mm silent film taken in spring 1970 at a concert near the base ...
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 1982
The super producer talks about Little Feat, Van Halen, the Doobies, and staying sane in a world of crazies. ...
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986
DURING THE early/mid-'70s, Warner Brothers were the envy of their major corporate rivals for their unparalleled hip-act market-share. Partly, one suspects, for the way their ...
Little Feat: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1989
SO MUCH attention was focused on the late Lowell George's central role as the chief singer-songwriter for Little Feat that the inimitable funky boogie style ...
Little Feat: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 July 1990
THERE'S A song on Little Feat's 1988 album, Let It Roll, called 'Hangin' On To The Good Times'. It's a syrupy, self-romanticising look back at ...
Little Feat: The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano CA
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 April 1992
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Figures that Little Feat would show up Thursday for the first night of three "all-acoustic" shows at the Coach House with ...
Little Feat: The One That Got Away
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 1994
OK, SO THERE aren't many of them, but Little Feat's 1975 show at the Rainbow Theatre was one LEGENDARY GIG EVERYONE SAYS THEY SAW that ...
Sleeve notes by Bud Scoppa, Rhino Records, February 2000
This is the story of a great American band, a band as quintessentially SoCal as the Beach Boys, as rootsy as the Band, as funky ...
Little Feat: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, January 2001
FOLLOW A CURVED PATH from Steely Dan to the Meters and at a point midway through the arc you'll stumble into the big tracks of ...
Little Feat: Time Waits for Columbus
Sleeve notes by Bud Scoppa, Rhino Records, October 2001
WHAT CONSTITUTES a great live album? It’s clearly not the mere replication of a band’s studio performances. That approach may satisfy the attending audience, but ...
Little Feat: Snakes On Everything
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, December 2001
FOR A FEW moments, it sounded just like old times. Little Feat were rolling unhurriedly through 'Day Or Night', embellishing it with their traditional lopsided ...
Groupie Grooves: Little Feat's Bill Payne
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 29 August 2002
TO PARAPHRASE George Carlin, people love to accumulate "stuff". Through the years, lots of it accrues in dusty boxes, dark attic spaces and basement cabinets. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2008
Lowell George was a Hollywood one-off: a swarthy movie-brat beatnik with a white-negro larynx and a keeningly sensual slide-guitar style. In late '69 he formed ...
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, April 2009
RELEASED IN a year that also produced Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy, The Eagles' Desperado and Jackson Browne's For Everyman, Little Feat's Dixie Chicken still ...
Lowell George: Time Loves a Hero
Retrospective by Michael Simmons, MOJO, May 2010
A '70s guitar visionary and genius songwriter, Lowell George of Little Feat is rock's lost star. Michael Simmons pays tribute. ...
Feats Don't Fail: Richie Hayward R.I.P.
Obituary by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, August 2010
If you like country with a boogie beat / He's the man to meet... ...
Van Dyke Parks (2010) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Holger Petersen, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 7 August 2010
This is a transcript of Holger's audio interview with Van Dyke. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Little Feat: 40 Feat – The Hot Tomato Anthology 1971-2011
Review by David Hepworth, The Word, October 2011
Five years of inspiration and another 35 of re-creation in a box of Little Feat, the band that nearly became the next big thing. ...
Little Feat: Rooster Rag (Rounder)
Review by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 August 2012
THE HISTORY BOOKS say that when guitarist Paul Barrere, bassist Kenny Gradney and percussionist Sam Clayton joined Little Feat for the band's third album, Dixie ...
It's Columbus Day Every Day for Little Feat
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 25 February 2022
According to The 1970s Rock Rulebook, every performer or band was required to release a double live record album. ...
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