(R/B-Country-Funk) Little Feat and Friends - Join The Band - 2008 - 2008, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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Little Feat and Friends / Join The Band
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Конец отчёта

BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Though they had all the trappings of a Southern-fried blues band, Little Feat were hardly conventional. Led by songwriter/guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat were a wildly eclectic band, bringing together strains of blues, R&B, country, and rock & roll. The bandmembers were exceptionally gifted technically and their polished professionalism sat well with the slick sounds coming out of southern California during the '70s. However, Little Feat were hardly slick — they had a surreal sensibility, as evidenced by George's idiosyncratic songwriting, which helped the band earn a cult following among critics and musicians. Though the band earned some success on album-oriented radio, the group was derailed after George's death in 1979. Little Feat re-formed in the late '80s, and while they were playing as well as ever, they lacked the skewed sensibility that made them cult favorites. Nevertheless, their albums and tours were successful, especially among American blues-rock fans.

However, Little Feat wasn't conceived as a straight-ahead blues-rock group. Its founding members, Lowell George (vocals, guitar, slide guitar) and Roy Estrada (bass), were veterans of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. George had a long musical career before joining the Mothers. As a child, he and his brother Hampton performed a harmonica duet on television's Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour. During high school, he learned how to play flute, which led to him appearing as an oboist and baritone saxophonist on several Frank Sinatra recording sessions. He formed the folk-rock group the Factory with drummer Richard Hayward in 1965. Before disbanding, the Factory made some recordings for Uni Records, but the tapes sat unreleased until the 1990s. Following the group's demise, George joined the Mothers of Invention, where he met Estrada. Zappa convinced George to form his own band after hearing "Willin'," but the guitarist was reluctant to begin a band until he participated in a brief Standells reunion.

George and Estrada formed Little Feat in 1969 with Hayward and keyboardist Billy Payne. Neither its eponymous first album in 1971 nor 1972's Sailin' Shoes were commercial successes, despite strong reviews. As a result, the group temporarily disbanded, with Estrada leaving music to become a computer programmer. When the group reconvened later in 1972, he was replaced by New Orleans musician Kenny Gradney. In its second incarnation, Little Feat also featured guitarist Paul Barrére and percussionist Sam Clayton, who gave the music a funkier feeling, as demonstrated by 1973's Dixie Chicken. The band toured heavily behind the record, building a strong following in the South and on the East Coast. Nevertheless, the group remained centered in Los Angeles, since the members did a lot of session work on the side.

Though the band was earning a cult following, several members of the group were growing frustrated by George's erratic behavior and increasing drug use. Following 1974's Feats Don't Fail Me Now, Barrére and Payne became the band's primary songwriters and they were primarily responsible for the jazzy fusions of 1975's The Last Record Album. Little Feat continued in that direction on Time Loves a Hero (1977), the double-live album Waiting for Columbus (1978), and Down on the Farm (1979). Frustrated with the band's increasingly improvisational and jazzy nature, George recorded a solo album, Thanks I'll Eat It Here, which was released in 1979. Following its release, George announced that Little Feat had broken up, and he embarked on a solo tour. Partway through the tour, he died of an apparent heart attack. Down on the Farm was released after his death, as was the rarities collection Hoy-Hoy! (1981).

After spending seven years as sidemen, Payne, Barrére, Hayward, Gradney, and Clayton re-formed Little Feat in 1988, adding vocalist/guitarist Craig Fuller and guitarist Fred Tackett. The heavily anticipated Let It Roll was released in 1988 to mixed reviews, but it went gold. Each of the group's subsequent reunion albums — Representing the Mambo (1989), Shake Me Up (1991), and Ain't Had Enough Fun (1995) — sold progressively less, but the band remained a popular concert attraction. On the latter album, the band traded the strongly Lowell George-esque voice of Fuller for female singer Shaun Murphy; this lineup went on to release Under the Radar in 1998 and Chinese Work Songs in 2000. Numerous compilations and live recordings peppered the next few years, followed by 2003's Kickin' It at the Barn, the group's first album for their own indie label, Hot Tomato Records. Rocky Mountain Jam arrived in early 2007. Join the Band followed in 2008 on Proper Records.
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REVIEW
The album title Join The Band derives from an entrance processional Little Feat sang a cappella when taking the stage during those high holy days with guitarist Lowell George. A rendition may be heard opening the band's famous live recording, Waiting For Columbus (Warner Bros, 1978). Lowell, of course, passed in 1979.

Thirty years later, the phrase is resurrected as the title of the present disc. Keyboard player Bill Payne opines that Join The Band is a summation of Little Feat's nearly 40-year career. The idea for the disc was hatched by singer/songwriter/mover and shaker Jimmy Buffett, who suggested that the band come to his 429 Studios and retool some of their book while adding new songs to it. He also suggested that Little Feat invite some friends to perform with them.

While so many popular music all-star affairs tend toward the bathetic, these pairings with Little Feat are downright inspiring. As LF has always been a band with a great penchant for the slide guitar, on which Paul Barrere is an acknowledged master, as good as Barrere is, the project spawned the inclusion of uber-slider Sonny Landreth. Landreth is to slide guitar what Michael Phelps is to competitive swimming.

Landreth joins vocalist/guitarist Dave Matthews and the band on “Fat Man in the Bathtub.” This coupling results in a molten South African groove tempered with the quench of icy clean Louisiana slide guitar. Vocalist/guitarist Fred Tackett's inclusion helps transforms Lowell George's South California blues into a lightly tropical going on volcanic rocker driven by Matthew's exquisite vocals. It is a triumph in re-interpretation.

Also notable from the LF songbook is “Time Loves a Hero” with Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer steel pans. When Buffett and Bill Payne speak of ...”an uncle in Puerto Rico...” the song comes off with an Islands authenticity. Add to this the very near perfect engineering accentuating Tackett's pristinely rendered guitar (again). While vocalist Vince Gill is not exactly convincing on “Dixie Chicken,” Landreth slashes and burns as only he can.

Several songs appear new to the LF book but have actually been part of their shows for several years. The Band's “The Weight” is interpreted here better than any other major band performing it (The Allman Brothers Band, The Black Crowes). Barrere's vinegar-dill voice is as perfect covering Band songs as Jimi Hendrix's guitar was covering Bob Dylan songs. Another cover is Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.” Here LF calls upon every influence they have ever had, funneling them into this most American of songs. Barrere and Shaun Murphy re-harmonize the chorus and deliver a candidate for the new national anthem.

Some songs here are just for fun. Foremost among these is Bob Seger's take on “Something in the Water,” with some tasty guitar play by the dean of C&W guitar, Brad Paisley. “Champion of the World” hosts a light-hearted Jimmy Buffett romp with Paul Barrere, as does Barrere and Murphy's rendition of “See You Later Alligator.” A serious and beautifully plaintive note is the duet between Bill Payne and Lowell George's daughter, Inara George, covering her father's “Trouble” from Sailing Shoes. Vocalist Emmylou Harris headlines on the new take of that title track.

Little Feat remains one of America's most durable 1960s-born bands. They are youthfully seasoned and still willing to take artistic chances. The inclusion of Vince Gill or Brooks & Dunn (who are superbly effective on “Willin'”) could be argued by knuckleheads as LF selling out. It would be more apt to suggest that when one has friends like this, one should get them all together for a pow-wow and then let the results speak for themselves.