Re: Little Feat - Little Feat (1971)

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:30 pm

Stirring stuff.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:30 pm

Horns.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:31 pm

Strings.

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:31 pm

Soulful vocals noodlings...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:31 pm

Last track - Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie.

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:32 pm

Zany final song.

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:32 pm

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:32 pm

:pirate:

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:32 pm

:piratebanana:

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:33 pm

Complex arrangement.

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:33 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:35 pm

It is over.

They could clearly play their instruments but the similarity to The Band became increasingly distracting and most of the songs were run of the mill.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:35 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:40 pm

What an ace album.

The band's first.

Don't forget that Lowell George was only about 23 when done all vat.

It's a bit of a jostling, jolting journey albeit relatively brief in duration jam packed with slightly rough around the edges southern rock/blues/countrinesses underpinned by often curiously complex melodic arrangements etc - and then rousingly epic ballads and tongue-in-cheek lyrics crammed into barely three minute-long durations.

Like many bands of that era they were the definition of musical prodigies achieving in barely the first decade of their semi-sentient lives releasing at least three genre and era-defining albums...

And what have I done lately to make myself proud? sad yes

by Nightjar Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:45 pm

I'll give it a perhaps slightly generous ★★★★★, even factoring the fairly dull blues 'medley' that, as is the case with many blues-rock bands of the time (The Stones very much included), seemed to always crop at least once on every album made between 1968 and 1972.

Basically, I'm giving the album a sporting 'bye' on the basis that that kind of rubbish was like a kind of quaint, old fashioned musical woodworm that afflicted all and sundry during the abovementioned dates.

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