At the end of the 1970s, Little Feat broke up. They also lost their main musical force, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Lowell George, who died in 1979. But the regrouped with the album "Let It Roll." Not only was it a surprise hit, but they actually had more commercial success than ever before. It contained two big hit songs, " Hate to Lose Your Lovin'" and "Let It Roll." I was just watching an NFL Thursday Night Football game last night, and the show played part of "Let It Roll" as background music at one point, showing how that song has become an establish classic.
I think the key to their resurgence was Craig Fuller. You may not have heard of him, but he's a very talented songwriter. For instance, he wrote "Amie," a hit by the Pure Prairie League in 1972. He joined Little Feat when they reunited, and cowrote eight out of ten songs on their "Let It Roll" album. He also became one of the band's main lead vocalists. He stayed with the band until 1993, and occasional reunions after that.
Anyway, the typical version of this concert bootleg is just short of an hour long. The BBC often cut concerts down to that length to make it fit an hour-long radio show time slot. But I found one version that was longer - an extra 40 minutes. I also found a set list of the correct song order, and saw the longer version had a scrambled song order. So I put the concert back pretty close to the correct order. ("Down on the Farm" is slightly out of place.)
As I mentioned above Bonnie Raitt was a guest star on some songs. For four songs, she played slide guitar and sometimes sang backing vocals. But for two songs, "Man Size Job" and "Rock and Roll Doctor," she shared lead vocals. Check the song list for the songs she was on, because she came and went from the stage multiple times. Note that Raitt has a long history with Little Feat, as she absolutely loves that band. For instance, I've also posted an episode of the "Midnight Special" from 1977 when she performed with the band then as well.
Here's a random side note. For years, I've been using the program TagScanner to help with making the mp3 tags and fixing the file names for the albums in my music collection. I've never had any notable problem with the program in all that time, except for one weird quirk: any time I have a song with "Little Feat" in the name, and I save a change, it changes it to "Little feat" (lower case "f"). Every single damn time! If I try "Little Fead" or anything else similar? No problem. Just the exact spelling of "Little Feat" specifically. And it's never happened with any other musical act name. It's so bizarre! Would anyone have an explanation for this? (Luckily, I also use a second program, called Mp3tag, so I fixed this problem in that program.)
This album is an hour and 39 minutes long.
01 Fat Man in a Bathtub (Little Feat)
02 Spanish Moon (Little Feat)
03 talk (Little Feat)
04 All that You Dream (Little Feat)
05 talk (Little Feat)
06 Cajun Girl (Little Feat)
07 Down on the Farm (Little Feat)
08 Hate to Lose Your Lovin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
09 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
10 talk (Little Feat)
11 Man Size Job (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
13 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Little Feat)
15 Let It Roll (Little Feat)
16 talk (Little Feat)
17 Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat)
18 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
19 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
20 Willin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
21 Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
22 talk (Little Feat)
23 Apolitical Blues (Little Feat)
24 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat)
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The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in 1988. I believe one band member got cropped out because he was way to the side. I would have liked to use a photo of the band with Bonnie Raitt from this time, but I couldn't find any like that except from the 1970s. To be honest, it was hard to even find a decent photo of the band from around 1988 at all.
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