Feats Don't Fail Me Now

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One of those bands that perfectly epitomized so many things about the 1970s, Little Feat created a strangely smooth and sexy pastiche of Southern-spiced blues-rock. Main man Lowell George's undulant slide guitar marked the group's early recordings. His vocals, meanwhile, were distinctive in the manner in which he toyed with vowels as if they were yo-yos, tossing them up and down, this way and that. The albums recorded prior to George's 1979 death reflected a jazz influence (albeit one that would grow more pronounced as his influence in the band waned). Being based in Los Angeles also gave them a certain patina they may have lacked if they had been based in, say, Memphis. Feats Don't Fail Me Now features visiting guests Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris and a collection of tight, wryly observant songs. Don't Fail Me's 1973 predecessor, Dixie Chicken, is generally seen as Little Feat's must-have outing, but this album, too, holds up a stunningly strong demonstration the appeal of the band's rock-blues-jazz hybrid. --Lorry Fleming

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Feats Don't Fail Me Now

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Better than DisneyLand, Sex and Chocolate
Little Feat Don't Fail Me
Unsteady Feat
Classic Southern-Fried Feats!
Sudden introduction

Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Little Feat
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music

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Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000002KFB
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Rock And Roll Doctor
Oh Atlanta
Skin It Back
Down The Road
Spanish Moon
Feets Don't Fail Me Now
The Fan
Medley : Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie

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One of those bands that perfectly epitomized so many things about the 1970s, Little Feat created a strangely smooth and sexy pastiche of Southern-spiced blues-rock. Main man Lowell George's undulant slide guitar marked the group's early recordings. His vocals, meanwhile, were distinctive in the manner in which he toyed with vowels as if they were yo-yos, tossing them up and down, this way and that. The albums recorded prior to George's 1979 death reflected a jazz influence (albeit one that would grow more pronounced as his influence in the band waned). Being based in Los Angeles also gave them a certain patina they may have lacked if they had been based in, say, Memphis. Feats Don't Fail Me Now features visiting guests Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris and a collection of tight, wryly observant songs. Don't Fail Me's 1973 predecessor, Dixie Chicken, is generally seen as Little Feat's must-have outing, but this album, too, holds up a stunningly strong demonstration the appeal of the band's rock-blues-jazz hybrid. --Lorry Fleming

Customer Reviews:

Better than DisneyLand, Sex and Chocolate.......2007-01-11

It was 1974. I was 15. A friend of mine,(Jack F. aka Pumpkin) a few years older than me,joined the Army and gave me his record collection to keep safe (everything from the Allman Bros. to Billy Holiday). Mom and Dad were gone for the weekend and my older brother and I threw one of our legendary parties. Sometime during the wee hours, we started looking into the stack of records. Like buried treasure, we found "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" and "Sailin Shoes".

While friends my age liked the pop on the radio, I had older brothers who had me listening to the best of Rock n Roll...Stones, Beatles, Cream, Santana, Led Zepplin, Woodstock stuff, CSN & Y, etc...I loved it all but was never a crazed fan of any band, until Little Feat.

I (along with 20 or so of our closest friends) went to six concerts in the LA area. They were all magical. The performance at the Shrine was unbelievable. After one concert, we all stayed at a house on the beach in Long Beach, CA. We took a walk and we were singing Dixie Chicken (ok, we were a little high... it was the 70's) and we looked up... right in front of us was "The Commodore Hotel", swear to God.

But the best for me was at The Roxy in Hollywoood. I caught one of the mariachi's (when they were playing Fat Man in the Bathtub). God it was Great. Thank you Jack (Pumpkin), where ever you are for leaving those albums with me.

I felt like every lyric, every beat, was written just for us. I cried (alot) when Lowell died. I still go see the band when I can. (I want "All that you Dream" played at my funeral... along with John Prine's Please don't bury me down in this cold cold ground.

It is hard for me to pick a best album, but if I have to, this is it. I love all the old stuff. Some of my favorites from various albums: Lonesome Whistle, Roll Um Easy, Two Trains.

Little Feat Don't Fail Me.......2006-06-15

Funk, Soul, Boogie, and Rock smothered in Bar-b-que sauce. This multi-talented, multi-cultural, bi-racial,...band from somewhere in Dixie produces amazing music. Like a Global symphony of music and happiness, Little Feat finally received the acclaim they deserved with the release of Feats Don't Fail Me Now. Even the harshest critics gave it a big thumbs up. The high leader of Little Feat - Lowell George - maintains focus and consistency in a recording that culls it's rythym from all over the map. The final tune, The Triple Medely, provides perfect closure to this hallmark recording. Well worth a listen.

Unsteady Feat.......2005-08-09

The sound's there but the songs ain't. After intially missing Little Feat in the Seventies, I caught up through Sailin' Shoes
and Dixie Chicken. Lowell George's laid back vocals and that
spacious, loose funk caught a real groove. Don't Fail Me Now's
got the funk but much less George and little melody, boogie
without the verse. Where's the tunes like Easy to Slip and Dixie Chicken? It really deserves two and half stars but fans of boogie
will argue.

Classic Southern-Fried Feats!.......2005-06-24

People, if ya'll can't get into the deep-fat, southern-fried greasy funk of this release, check your pulse! "Skin It Back" (with its' tasty stop-start bass line) and "Spanish Moon" (three minutes or so of the most sincere, slippery Southern Soul on wax - punctuated by the Tower Of Power horn section, no less) are worth the price of admission alone. That's funk with extra hot sauce on it.
Lowell George, rest in peace, good brother for a job well done!!!
Funkier than a pot of neck bones, greasier than a slab of ribs and guaranteed to satisfy your musical appetite!

Sudden introduction.......2005-01-25

So I'm at this party in the winter of '74, typical college affair, and I was sitting in front of the stereo trying to decide what to play next. My then-GF, just back from visiting her folks in California, hands me an album from a stack of new stuff she'd brought back with her. Now, at this point I was pretty jaded on rock and had been listening to fusion and jazz. She was smart enough to realize that Weather Report would kill a party so she says "put this on to keep the vibe going" and it was Feats Don't Fail Me Now.

I was instantly hooked. What chops! Who are these guys! Remember, this was in the day of no Internet, no real underground college radio, no nothing. It was hard to hear new bands, and they were new to us on the East Coast.

What really caught my ear was "Skin It Back" with those odd rhythms and changes, and over all George's slinky slide playing. I ran out and bought "Dixie Chicken" the next day and those two albums stayed on my turntable for months, only surplanted when Steely Dan came on the scene to also blow me away. And whenever I think of the general excellence of music in the mid-70s, Little Feat and Steely Dan come to mind

So, Denise, if you read this - hope you are happy and life has treated you kindly. Thanks for turning me on to Little Feat. I hope I can continue the karma by turning someone else on to them.