Probably the most underrated American band ever. We in the UK, however, always recognised how truly great they were. T he New Orleans shuffle beat is strong in their music, And the live album this comes from is stunning.
This live album has to be included on any list of best live albums ever made. A truly unique collection of great music that captures the band at their height. Count me among those who agree with your assessment that they are severely underrated. Peace
Incredible band that never broke through to the mainstream. Among their biggest fans, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan. This live albums is in my humble opinion one of the best live albums ever. Although it’s a long track you should play Dixie Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie as one reaction
They were never truly big, but they were in the middle of a scene that a lot of other bands broke out of. They were one of those bands that other bands loved, and critics liked, but they never broke through. The song that most people would know them for is "Dixie Chicken".
I have seen Little Feat several times throughout the years, three of those times with Lowell in the band. I, like almost everyone else in this thread, think that Waiting For Columbus is one of the great live albums. I would also include the live cuts from their album Hoy Hoy which were recorded during the same tour as WFC. I also think that their comeback album Let It Roll was a post Lowell George masterpiece. Craig Fuller was a perfect fit for the band. However, after Craig's departure there were many years of what was to be a slow demise of the band. The deaths of drummer Richie Hayward and then, a few years ago, of guitarist Paul Barrere was, I assumed, the final blow. Pianist, Billy Payne announced that Little Feat was going to tour to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Waiting For Columbus. I, along several friends got tickets for their St. Louis show. On the way to the show I stated that this would likely be my last time to see them so I wanted it to be while listening to this album played live. I wasn't expecting much more than a nostalgia trip with old friends My God...they were phenomenal. The addition of guitarist/singer Scott Sharrard (guitarist and musical director for The Greg Allman Band) and drummer Tony Leone has literally blown new life into Little Feat. They will be touring again this summer and I already have my ticket. I highly recommend seeing them if you love Little Feat... you will not be disappointed.
Little Feat is a band's band... I remember watching them live in Santa Cruz and noted three of the Doobie Brothers quietly sitting a few feet away... Tower of Power horn sections were in some of the concert tours. Paul McCartney and a host of other musicians cited them as one of their favorites. You are right to question why they were not further along in popularity. I think probably because they never did the pop altered tunes other groups put together for record deals. For example: if you watch the Doobies they don''t just play the note for note songs we all know. They jam. And this is what Little Feat does all the time. They are totally talented and interact confidently like they are more of a family.
I saw the resulting tour for the double LIVE album “Waiting For Columbus” on May 40th 1978 . It was one of the most amazing shows I’ve ever seen . Lowell George passed away a year later in June of 1979 . I think about that concert all the time. 🎸❤️🎥🎞🎤🙏
Absolutely Love Little Feat. They are amazing live. And you are right Lex, their music includes that New Orleans boogie vibe. Try Spanish Moon off this album, or Gringo off the Hoy Hoy album.
I wore this vinyl out!! Spanish moon please. I had tickets to see them inhighschool and ended up in the hospital on the night of the show. It broke my heart, they weren’t mainstream, but my favorite band at the time.
I saw them at Newcastle City Hall, U.K., in about 1977 and they were superb. Apparently on their first trip to the U.K. they were supporting the Doobie Brothers and at a concert in London (The Rainbow theatre I think) they were so good that the crowd didn’t want them to leave the stage and kept cheering for more!
Great band, great album! Full of some of their wonderful songs. Spanish Moon, Tripe Face Boogie and Fat Man in the Bathtub just a few of the super songs.
I was first introduced to Little Feat as I was graduating form High School in 1974. I am so blessed to have seen them live several years later just a year before Lowell George died so prematurely. Southern soul-rock-funk like no other group. I bare witness to the magic!
I always thought that it sounded like their drummer was playing the drums while bouncing on a trampoline. It just has that shuffling beat that is so hypnotic.
one of the best live albums of all time....seen them several times with and without L.G. ...they were never really the same after he passed...sent him one last time in stl at the fox theater
You should try Old Folks Boogie or Dixie Chicken from Little Feat. I saw them play with the Grateful Dead in Eugene Oregon, then again at the Kona brew pub in Hawaii. Great band!
Hometown Hollywood, CA - Lowell George really had the Southern Country sound down - my favorite being DOWN ON THE FARM, title track from Little Feat's 7th studio album. RIP, Lowell George!
In my small part of America (my friends and those that attended concerts we went to) the Feats were absolutely enormous , personally my favorite band..They were from L.A.
They were kind of a b-tier group on classic rock radio as far as airplay. Critical favorites, though they never got real big. They had a funky New Orleans sound though they were L.A. white dudes. Several solid albums worth checking out. "Dixie Chicken" is a good starting point.
The Feats were famous for the live shows. Back then we could carry blankets and coolers into the venues and If they were in town there was a party. No two shows were the same.
There is so much to explore with this band! They were so good, other artists covered their songs. Check out "Sneakin' Sally Down the Alley," and Fat Man in the Bathtub." Another is "Weed, Whites, and Wine." Music city tourism is such a great idea!
Ive seen Little feat Dozens of times Their shows are epic lhave been travelling all over the world for 50 yrs Every trip is based on what music is happening Peter Gabriel in Italy coming in May
Lex, you are onto something with your suggestion that they’re would be interest in touring places where famous bands came from. A few weeks ago I was in Jacksonville FL and I couldn’t help but laugh honk about Lynyrd Skynyrd growing up there. Send chills up my spine.
Truly amazing band and their stunningly great live album. For a band that didn't get very much radio airplay, they would sell out shows coast to coast. Really should check out the Dixie Chicken>Tripe Face Boogie jam off this album....well, anything off Waiting For Columbus would be worth your time.
I saw them multiple times back in the days before Lowell George died. They were huge in the DC and Mid-Atlantic area back then. Check out their song "Fat Man In The Bathtub".
Having grown up in NOVA, I never realized until I was older that Little Feat wasn’t as well known as the big greats (Stones, Floyd, Zep, Who. etc). It’s crazy.
*Criminally underrated.* IMHO, the best live album of the 1970s and it has a helluva lotta competition out there. It suffers on YT because it's broken up into individual songs, while on the record they flow together like The Beatles Abbey Road. If you haven't already, give an ear to Dixie Chicken...
Even though Little Feat sounds like they're from New Orleans or those environs, they are really from Southern California. Paul Barrere takes the lead vocals on this tune, and a few others on this absolutely amazing live album, one of the best ever by anyone. Got to see them on the tour that was promoting this album, and it was one of the greatest musical nights of my life.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 yes CCR another one with that Louisiana feel. Driving home to Mississippi from visiting family in Illinois as a kid in 1970 when Lookin’ Out My Back Door came on the radio we would sing those beginning lyrics so loud - “Just got back from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy”. Ha Ha I guess we identified. Funny at that time I imagined CCR was from neighboring Louisiana.
Little Feat was a California band that could do just about anything musically . Never big commercially but with an insane fan base. Quite probably the most underrated American banbever
Were they a phenomenon, no, but a great band in the seventies when I was in highschool. I had the "Waiting On Columbus" and "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" albums. Great cruising the back roads smoking reefer band. This brings back some fond and fun memories so thank you for that. Peace ❤❤
Four Shore we love Little Feat Jere on Tennessee. Waiting For Columbus is a fine album , I bought it in 1978. I have requested their music in many of yalls streams. Let's set Spanish Moon going. Take care of Jack y'all.
Speaking of music tourism, Dave Grohl has an entire show on HBO where the Foo Fighters go from city to city in America to discover the unique sounds of each place. It's called Sonic Highways.
Most of the band members were from California but they really captured a southern feel. And very perceptive of Lex to say it felt like New Orleans because by this point Little Feat, drummer, Richie Hayward, was using a New Orleans second line style. That change distinguishes this luce album from their studio recordings.
What is an interesting trip to make - take a journey through their Wiki. They are from California and like the Eagles pulls inspiration from many place. Band was formed around Lowell George and his slide guitar. After getting fired by Frank Zappa and told him to form his own band he hooked up with the piano player, Bill Payne. Lowell tried to run the band like a democracy and less than a decade later Lowell had left the band due to creative differences. Then the same year Lowell and in my mind so did the essence of Little Feat. During that decade though the bands music has been my favorite for what it put out then. Waiting for Columbus is considered one of the top all-time live albums recorded. For "Southern" music, its one of the most nuanced and interesting compilation of musical bands. Had they been more structured leader wise they might have been more recognized. They were with other musicans, just not the suits and their lackey DJs.
Back when I was in high school in the D.C. suburbs, they were big indeed - EVERYBODY listened to Waiting for Columbus and they got massive play time on the radio. I saw them live and they tore the house down. Their future was very promising, then Lowell George had to up & die from a heart attack. Game over. :(
Bill Payne .....stellar on keyboard.....Kenny killin it on bass.. Paul is just all over the place.....They are talking about getting done in Cincinnati and getting the hell outta town and closer to home asap.😊😊😊
Probably the most underrated American band ever. We in the UK, however, always recognised how truly great they were. T he New Orleans shuffle beat is strong in their music, And the live album this comes from is stunning.
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They were appreciated in Germany, too. They had a phenomenal gig on TV‘s Rockpalast
they had four silver albums in the UK. they had four gold and a platinum in the US
This live album has to be included on any list of best live albums ever made. A truly unique collection of great music that captures the band at their height. Count me among those who agree with your assessment that they are severely underrated. Peace
Amen brother
Incredible band that never broke through to the mainstream. Among their biggest fans, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan. This live albums is in my humble opinion one of the best live albums ever. Although it’s a long track you should play Dixie Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie as one reaction
And Linda Ronstadt. She was big on Lowell George and recorded several Feat songs.
@@OzarkTroutBum As well as Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris who play with them on Midnight Special "Dixie Chicken."
I always thought "Tripe faced boogie" sounded a lot like "weather report" when they started the musical portion of the song.
Every musician I knew, (and I worked in the music business) loved this band. A testament to their talent.
They weren't big or mainstream but damn they could jam!! 🥳
This is an excellent LP.
They did have quite a following in the DC area
We loved them😊
This was such a great band. This is the kind of band you would want to see live. They could flat jam!
Same Album- four great back to back songs. "Time loves a hero",-"day or nite,"-"mercenary territory", "-spanish moon"! You will love the horns!!
Probably one of greatest live bands around, so underrated. Founded by Lowel George RIP around 1969.
@@dougj7295 The band was formed in 1969 in California by Lowell George and Bill Payne. George died in 1979.
Lowell George AND Bill Payne.
Wow I saw that tour … bought that T-shirt . I’m so lucky I saw Lowell George . 🤯🎸✌️
The Live album Waiting For Columbus is one of the greatest live albums ever. Every song is a classic!!!
Thanks so much for this. I was lucky enough to see them in London in the 1970s as part of the Warner Bros tour. They were brilliant.
LOVE LITTLE FEAT! So diverse and down right southern rock to its core!
They were never truly big, but they were in the middle of a scene that a lot of other bands broke out of. They were one of those bands that other bands loved, and critics liked, but they never broke through. The song that most people would know them for is "Dixie Chicken".
They were big with college students "in the know" in the '70s. Their song "Dixie Chicken" was a hit on college radio at the time.
Back when college radio was big and fm radio was actually good also.
They had lots of famous fans who would perform with them like Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and more
The whole album rocks. Try Fatman, Dixie Chicken, Time Loves a Hero...All Classics!!! Thanks for finally reviewing these guys.
One of the greatest bands. Please do/listen to the whole Waiting for Columbus album.
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I have seen Little Feat several times throughout the years, three of those times with Lowell in the band. I, like almost everyone else in this thread, think that Waiting For Columbus is one of the great live albums. I would also include the live cuts from their album Hoy Hoy which were recorded during the same tour as WFC.
I also think that their comeback album Let It Roll was a post Lowell George masterpiece. Craig Fuller was a perfect fit for the band. However, after Craig's departure there were many years of what was to be a slow demise of the band. The deaths of drummer Richie Hayward and then, a few years ago, of guitarist Paul Barrere was, I assumed, the final blow.
Pianist, Billy Payne announced that Little Feat was going to tour to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Waiting For Columbus. I, along several friends got tickets for their St. Louis show. On the way to the show I stated that this would likely be my last time to see them so I wanted it to be while listening to this album played live. I wasn't expecting much more than a nostalgia trip with old friends
My God...they were phenomenal. The addition of guitarist/singer Scott Sharrard (guitarist and musical director for The Greg Allman Band) and drummer Tony Leone has literally blown new life into Little Feat. They will be touring again this summer and I already have my ticket. I highly recommend seeing them if you love Little Feat... you will not be disappointed.
Little Feat is a band's band... I remember watching them live in Santa Cruz and noted three of the Doobie Brothers quietly sitting a few feet away... Tower of Power horn sections were in some of the concert tours. Paul McCartney and a host of other musicians cited them as one of their favorites. You are right to question why they were not further along in popularity. I think probably because they never did the pop altered tunes other groups put together for record deals. For example: if you watch the Doobies they don''t just play the note for note songs we all know. They jam. And this is what Little Feat does all the time. They are totally talented and interact confidently like they are more of a family.
The guys were tight. It's funk jam.
LOVE YOU LIVE BABY!!!!!!!!!! 😎
“Spanish Moon” from the same album or anything on Waiting for Columbus Can’t go wrong. Great reaction!
Long Distance Love - was my favourite song from Little Feat when I was young.
Great track, great album too, a few favourites of mine are Mercenary Territory, Romance Dance and Somebody's Leavin' Tonight.
This band is so good it's sick. Lowell George is an unsung hero on the slide and lyrics wow. There is do much to listen make you dizzy
Love me some Little Feat Great band👍
I saw the resulting tour for the double LIVE album “Waiting For Columbus” on May 40th 1978 . It was one of the most amazing shows I’ve ever seen . Lowell George passed away a year later in June of 1979 . I think about that concert all the time. 🎸❤️🎥🎞🎤🙏
Absolutely Love Little Feat. They are amazing live. And you are right Lex, their music includes that New Orleans boogie vibe. Try Spanish Moon off this album, or Gringo off the Hoy Hoy album.
I wore this vinyl out!! Spanish moon please. I had tickets to see them inhighschool and ended up in the hospital on the night of the show. It broke my heart, they weren’t mainstream, but my favorite band at the time.
Little Feat was a band that other musicians loved and appreciated more than the public did
I saw them at Newcastle City Hall, U.K., in about 1977 and they were superb. Apparently on their first trip to the U.K. they were supporting the Doobie Brothers and at a concert in London (The Rainbow theatre I think) they were so good that the crowd didn’t want them to leave the stage and kept cheering for more!
Always one of my favourite Little Feat songs. In fact, just one of my favourite songs.
"Dixie Chicken" and "Spanish Moon" from this album. Anything from this album, really.
Great band, great album! Full of some of their wonderful songs. Spanish Moon, Tripe Face Boogie and Fat Man in the Bathtub just a few of the super songs.
I was first introduced to Little Feat as I was graduating form High School in 1974. I am so blessed to have seen them live several years later just a year before Lowell George died so prematurely. Southern soul-rock-funk like no other group. I bare witness to the magic!
Bill Payne on piano. Skin it Back is a great tune.
The first concert I saw after moving to the Seattle area in 1989 was Little Feat at the Paramount theater... Great show...
let's not forget "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley".
I always thought that it sounded like their drummer was playing the drums while bouncing on a trampoline. It just has that shuffling beat that is so hypnotic.
Little Feet one of my favorites. So many great songs just love their sound.
They were your favorite bands favorite band back in the day.
one of the best live albums of all time....seen them several times with and without L.G. ...they were never really the same after he passed...sent him one last time in stl at the fox theater
Feat! Feat! Feat! 👣
One of the jammiest bands ever!
A wonderful group that flew under most radio stations broadcast radar.
Love me some Little Feat! One of my favorites!
You need to hit more Little Feet this whole album is killer 🔥
You should try Old Folks Boogie or Dixie Chicken from Little Feat. I saw them play with the Grateful Dead in Eugene Oregon, then again at the Kona brew pub in Hawaii. Great band!
I can't think of 2 better environments!
Hometown Hollywood, CA - Lowell George really had the Southern Country sound down - my favorite being DOWN ON THE FARM, title track from Little Feat's 7th studio album. RIP, Lowell George!
There is a little sub-genre of "Atlanta" southern rock. In the late 70's Champagne Jam. 96 Rock. Man it was great.
She can't stop smiling❤. That's the usual reaction to Little Feat 😁
In my small part of America (my friends and those that attended concerts we went to) the Feats were absolutely enormous , personally my favorite band..They were from L.A.
They were kind of a b-tier group on classic rock radio as far as airplay. Critical favorites, though they never got real big. They had a funky New Orleans sound though they were L.A. white dudes. Several solid albums worth checking out. "Dixie Chicken" is a good starting point.
I saw them in New Orleans. It was great.
Got a signed guitar strap from Little Feet about 10 years ago, just love them!
Great band! Listen to “Willin” next.
The ultimate trucking song!
Oh yes! Linda Ronstadt did a wonderful version of Willin'.
@@Nutty_commenter absolutely wonderful!
Great party band...ya gotta dance to this! 👍❤🤙
I was at this concert! It's still the best concert I've ever been to. Feat were never big nationally, but they were huge in the DC area!
They were a musician's band. The kind other musicians would come out to watch when they could.
The Feats were famous for the live shows. Back then we could carry blankets and coolers into the venues and If they were in town there was a party. No two shows were the same.
I remember this song and loving it on Bad Company’s album Desolation Angels from 1979. Did they not right it? Someone correct me if I’m wrong
Best live album ever. By a lot. Start to finish.
Brad & Lex, you’ll like their “Dixie Chicken”!!
Yes the live version with Bonnie Raitt and EmmyLou Harris singing backup.
There is so much to explore with this band! They were so good, other artists covered their songs. Check out "Sneakin' Sally Down the Alley," and Fat Man in the Bathtub." Another is "Weed, Whites, and Wine." Music city tourism is such a great idea!
Weed, Whites and Wine would be "Willin'" the best truck driving song ever written
Ive seen Little feat Dozens of times
Their shows are epic lhave been travelling all over the world for 50 yrs
Every trip is based on what music is happening
Peter Gabriel in Italy coming in May
They had a ton of fans in the seventies. Imma proud to be one of them.
You HAVE to do Spanish Moon by them. Both the studio and live versions are great. It's so funky.
They were very popular in the MD-DC-VA area. They got a lot of airplay on DC-101, 98 Rock and WHFS.
Lex, you are onto something with your suggestion that they’re would be interest in touring places where famous bands came from. A few weeks ago I was in Jacksonville FL and I couldn’t help but laugh honk about Lynyrd Skynyrd growing up there. Send chills up my spine.
Damn - I hate autocorrect! Meant to say “I couldn’t help but think about…
Truly amazing band and their stunningly great live album. For a band that didn't get very much radio airplay, they would sell out shows coast to coast. Really should check out the Dixie Chicken>Tripe Face Boogie jam off this album....well, anything off Waiting For Columbus would be worth your time.
I saw them multiple times back in the days before Lowell George died. They were huge in the DC and Mid-Atlantic area back then. Check out their song "Fat Man In The Bathtub".
Having grown up in NOVA, I never realized until I was older that Little Feat wasn’t as well known as the big greats (Stones, Floyd, Zep, Who. etc). It’s crazy.
*Criminally underrated.* IMHO, the best live album of the 1970s and it has a helluva lotta competition out there.
It suffers on YT because it's broken up into individual songs, while on the record they flow together like The Beatles Abbey Road. If you haven't already, give an ear to Dixie Chicken...
Even though Little Feat sounds like they're from New Orleans or those environs, they are really from Southern California. Paul Barrere takes the lead vocals on this tune, and a few others on this absolutely amazing live album, one of the best ever by anyone. Got to see them on the tour that was promoting this album, and it was one of the greatest musical nights of my life.
True took me some time after I first heard them in the seventies to discover they were from Southern California and not New Orleans. Love their sound.
CREEDENCE CLERWATER REVIVAL are the reverse. They're from Norther Cali but sound like New Orleans.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 yes CCR another one with that Louisiana feel. Driving home to Mississippi from visiting family in Illinois as a kid in 1970 when Lookin’ Out My Back Door came on the radio we would sing those beginning lyrics so loud - “Just got back from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy”. Ha Ha I guess we identified. Funny at that time I imagined CCR was from neighboring Louisiana.
@@bradsense7431 They have that sound. Born on the Bayou. But born in Northern California.
Yeah, I always thought that was strange. (Full disclosure: I'm from LA.) Another LA person who sounds like old school Appalachia is Gillian Welch.
FINALLY!! THANK YOU!!!!
Well, if you like boogie with a country beat, they’re the band to meet….
my favorite band from the 70s!
Spanish Moon, from the same album is excellent
Love this whole album! 😃
Raised on this by my older brothers.. on all the time!..👍🏻❤️😎🎸
Little Feat was a California band that could do just about anything musically . Never big commercially but with an insane fan base. Quite probably the most underrated American banbever
Not insane mate just awesome. The rest of the band were very good but Lowell was stellar. 😎
I was in Townsend, Maryland when they recorded that album.
From this same album, try Mercenary Territory! One of Little Feat's best.
Absolutely love that one, The Last Record Album is their best LP for me! Romance Dance another great track!
Were they a phenomenon, no, but a great band in the seventies when I was in highschool. I had the "Waiting On Columbus" and "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" albums. Great cruising the back roads smoking reefer band.
This brings back some fond and fun memories so thank you for that.
Peace ❤❤
Very underrated band.
Willing one of the best country songs ever written
Four Shore we love Little Feat Jere on Tennessee. Waiting For Columbus is a fine album , I bought it in 1978. I have requested their music in many of yalls streams. Let's set Spanish Moon going. Take care of Jack y'all.
They were AWESOME!!!!
I never got to see Lowell George as he died when I was 14 but I saw them 3 times in their later reunion years.
I love it but I wish you would have used the studio version. One of my all time favorites.
Speaking of music tourism, Dave Grohl has an entire show on HBO where the Foo Fighters go from city to city in America to discover the unique sounds of each place. It's called Sonic Highways.
Most of the band members were from California but they really captured a southern feel. And very perceptive of Lex to say it felt like New Orleans because by this point Little Feat, drummer, Richie Hayward, was using a New Orleans second line style. That change distinguishes this luce album from their studio recordings.
The whole album is great
"I miss LITTLE FEAT more than I miss being eight years old." ~Bonnie Raitt~
dammm cat...😂...anyway seen them at the fox theater in stl one of the greatest live shows I've ever attended.
Check out Spanish moon from the Same album probably top 10 live recording keep doing what you doing
When Hard Rock Cafe opened in Atlanta this was the first song played.
More of this please
Tragically underrated band. Let it Roll was probably the biggest hit and a great song but the live album was so incredibly good start to finish.
What is an interesting trip to make - take a journey through their Wiki. They are from California and like the Eagles pulls inspiration from many place. Band was formed around Lowell George and his slide guitar. After getting fired by Frank Zappa and told him to form his own band he hooked up with the piano player, Bill Payne. Lowell tried to run the band like a democracy and less than a decade later Lowell had left the band due to creative differences. Then the same year Lowell and in my mind so did the essence of Little Feat. During that decade though the bands music has been my favorite for what it put out then. Waiting for Columbus is considered one of the top all-time live albums recorded. For "Southern" music, its one of the most nuanced and interesting compilation of musical bands. Had they been more structured leader wise they might have been more recognized. They were with other musicans, just not the suits and their lackey DJs.
Back when I was in high school in the D.C. suburbs, they were big indeed - EVERYBODY listened to Waiting for Columbus and they got massive play time on the radio. I saw them live and they tore the house down. Their future was very promising, then Lowell George had to up & die from a heart attack. Game over. :(
LOVE Little Feat!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a musician in my area that puts trips to Ireland together and he escorts the group to pubs for the food and music.
Whole lp is so good, man. ❤
Bill Payne .....stellar on keyboard.....Kenny killin it on bass.. Paul is just all over the place.....They are talking about getting done in Cincinnati and getting the hell outta town and closer to home asap.😊😊😊
Dixie Chicken is a must do,,America's most under rated jam band
About dang time my favorite band