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.................................DIXIE CHICKEN...................................

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.......................FEATS DON'T FAIL ME NOW............................

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................................LOWELL GEORGE.................................

.........................THANKS I'LL EAT IT HERE............................

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................HIGHWIRE ACT LIVE IN ST. LOUIS 2003................

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Produced by Bill Payne, George Massenburg and Paul Barrere

Mixed by gm at The George Massenburg Studios, West Los Angeles, December 1980 through March 1981

Assistance by Bill Youdelman, Ken Fowler, Barbara Rooney and Ron Pendragon.

Mastered by Mike Reese at the Mastering Lab

“Forty-Four Blues” and “Strawberry Flats” are from Litte Feat (c. 1971), produced by Russ Titelman

“Easy To Slip” is from Sailin’ Shoes (c. 1972), produced by Ted Templeman

All tunes performed by past and present members of Little Feat except where noted.

Art Direction, Painting and Time Machine: Neon Park – design/Coordination and Bowling Brad Kanawyer

Photography, Search and Research: Elizabeth George – telephone and Words: Charlie “Chuck” Haas

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Lowell George

Roy Estrade

Bill Payne

Richie Hayward

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Ivan the Ice Cream Man

TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ‘69

Some contend that rock and roll is bad for the body and bad for the soul

bad for the heart

bad for the mind

bad for the deaf

and bad for the blind

it makes some men crazy

and then they talk like fools

some men crazy and then

they start to drool

when the sky is all cast over

and the stars refuse to shine

pigs are fallin’ in the swamps

the lizards on the vine

frank from knees is fallin’

fam ba deema quirk (n.p.)

the sky is turnin’ yellow

and the birds are fallin’ down

when it’s several planes of Egypt

strike you in you tracks

led by sorrow stolen

down in east l.a.

when they keep your spinners

and take your tires away

when you get your last prescription

from your favorite quack

you know that it is written

you know what it can mean

it’s like livin’ in an airport

underneath a plane

it’s like sleepin’ on a freeway

in the center lane

it’s a teenage nervous breakdown

nervous teenage breakdown

by Lowell George

1981 Naked Snake Music ASCAP

Fred Martin

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“Scotch on the rocks from outer space descending upon ham sandwich with golf ball”

By Lowell George

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SEEN MY PRETTY ALICE IN EVERY HEADLIGHT . . . ALICE . . . DALLAS ALICE

LITTLE FEAT - SAILIN SHOES

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Band Photos: Chick Strand

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Lowell George

Bill Payne

Paul Barrere

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Kenny Gradney

Richie Hayward

Sam Clayton

"The Aviator" by Richie Hayward

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"I miss Little Feat more than I miss being eight years old." - Bonnie Raitt

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"An interesting phenomenon: Lowell taught a lot of people to sing. You can hear his style in a number of people he worked with . . . that melisma of madness I referred to as "White Boy Got the Woo Woos: or "Vanilla Grits' . . ."
--Van Dyke Parks, producer of "Spanish Moon"

Photo: Elizabeth George

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Ma Hull's Banana Pudding - Atlanta, Georgia

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"Oh, Atlanta!"

"Stuff La Grande"

Photo: Debbie Cheshire

Band in Concert

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Rick Harper

"On tour, we would have the lighter wars. This began when Lowell would come to you and say, 'Got a match?' - knowing very well that you had a Bic lighter. You'd hand him the lighter, and he'd start to light his cigarette, and then start a conversation. Once he had you engrossed in the conversation, he'd light the cigarette and slip the lighter into his pocket. And by the end of the tour he would have this inventory of Bic lighters, each one neatly labelled with the name and the date it was captured, you know: 'Rick -- 11/14.'"

-- Rick Harper

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"Surfin' Shoe" by Neon Park

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Backstage at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.

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Fran Tate

Mo Ostin

Jed Lowell

Photo: Debbie Cheshire

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Lowell George

Kenny Gradney

Paul Barrere

Concert Photos: Goff-Dickson/England

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"The Hole" by Richie Hayward

"Rocket/Pocket" Sculpture by Anne and Doug Edge

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"New Delhi Freight Train'

“FEATS DON’T FAIL ME NOW” was recorded in 1974 in a studio I had build in Baltimore and which had passed into the hands of some other guys. Little Feat were enchanted with Baltimore, Baltimore was enchanted with them, and the record is still mentioned there as the only thing the town ever did right. But the studio was in an industrial park, and one day the corporate management of the park walked in and there were mattresses on the studio floor and there was an orgy going on. They decided then and there to close the studio. The guys who had the studio moved the console down to a barge in Baltimore harbor, a grain barge that had been converted into a furniture showroom. I helped them set up the studio there. Lowell used to go there, book time and work on songwriting, engineering experiments and so on. Unfortunately, these guys let the insurance lapse, and then they let the bilge pumps lapse, and one day the barge sank to the bottom of the harbor. A number of Lowell’s trial tapes, and some WLIR (radio broadcast) 16-tracks, were lost. Also, it was real tough on the recording equipment. Sludge in the meters, in the microphones – I mean, it’s not one of the world’s cleanest harbors to begin with . . .”
--George Massenburg

Van Dyke Parks/Lowell George/Fred Tackett

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Artists Note: The "Time Loves A Hero" cover is about the first chapter of a "Farewell To Arms."

Bill Payne

Sam Clayton

Richie Hayward

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SCHMERZEN IM DICKEN ZEH

LITTLE FEAT

,,Woran merkt ‘ne polnische Ballerina, daBsie sich mal wieder waschen muB?” fragt Paul berrere. Auf die polnische Variante der bei uns wohlberuchtigten Ostfriesenwitze weiB niemand eine Antwort. ,,Wenn sie beim Spagat am Boden kleben bleibt!” Little feats Gitarrist Barrere, der Eingeweihte sehr stark an den Fabulous Furry Freak Brother Phineas Phreak erinnert, hat gerade den zehnten, ethnische Minderheiten diskriminierenden Witz losgelassen, aber jetzt sind wir in der Gruga Halle (Essen) angelangt.

Von Teja Schwaner, New York

(2 x) und Essen und Jorg Gulden, leider nur Essen.

Die Insider-Gruppe, die den Deutschen Schallplattenpreis 1976 gewann, hat ihren GroBauftritt vor Millionen Fernsehzuschauern zu bestreiten – es ist Rock-palast-Festival-Nacht. Vier weitere Zehen des ,,Kleinen FuBes” sitzen mit uns im Bus: Sam ,,Der warme Wind aus Afrika” Clayton, Conga-Rhythmiker, Richie Hayward, Motorradfahrer (mit Unfall) und Trommler, Bill Payne, Golfspieler im Polohemd und Intellekt an den Keyboards sowie Kenny Gradney, der mit dem lasziven Huftschwung und den saftigen BaB-Tonen. Nur Lowell George, die ,dicke Zehe’ vom Little Feat, Grizzly-Bar an der Slidegitarre, wahlte seinen eigenen Weg zum Auftrittsort. Ebenso verspatet wie vielleicht symptomatish . . .

1977 Sounds Verlag GmbH, Hamburg;

Story by Teja Schwaner and Jorg Gulden

Nein, nein, die Band heiBt nicht Little Feet, mit zwei e, nein, damit wurden sie sicher nicht einverstanden sein. Denn auf ,,kleinem FuB” steht ihre Musik bestimmt nicht. Little Feat mu Bes richtig heiBen, und damit kommen wir der Sache schon betrachtlich naher: Wenn sie eines nicht kennen, dann sin des Minderwertigkeitsgefuhle.

Musik Express, Germany

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Fotos: Manfred Becker

Admiral Lauel Krapfen Und Seine Alte

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KRO Studio Gids

40,000 popliefhebbers waren in Geleen het publiek voor Little Feat.

Pink Pop Festival

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"Meat Dream 43" by Richie Hayward

Photo: Neon Park

Der Socket 11/16

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Photo: Elizabeth George

“I started with the band in ’76 or ’77, driving a motor home that Lowell had rented for the tour. Everybody else in the band flew, but Lowell had an aversion to flying – he had very, very good ears and, by virtue of that, I guess, sensitive ones. He was writing some tunes then, and he’d sit in the back with the guitars, the drum synthesizers, and two tape recorders, I would float down the highway while he would sing and play and write. It was great . . .”
--Gene Vano

Photo: Elizabeth George

All other Photos: Jim Shea

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"Boom" by Neon Park

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Rosemary Butler
Linda Ronstadt
Nicolette Larson

Photo: Susan Rothchild (Green Lizard Shoes)

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Photo: Nancy Seeman

Chick Strand, Neon Park

Photo: Melodie Wilson

"Lady of the Lake"

"Gravity" by Richie Hayward

OVER THE EDGE
Well I just don’t know what to do
And I hate this confusion
I got all these questions
And nowhere to lose them
I asked for answers
And got only advice
Advice is so cheap – everyone’s got a hype
To get the truth
I guess you must pay a price
CHORUS:
But don’t go fallin
Over the edge
Don’t let your wandering mind
Drive you out of your head
Stay on that fine line
Hold on to that thread
‘cause pain is all you’ll find
By fallin over the edge
Drive on in
That’s what they said
If you’re lucky – live thru it
You’ll find your answers within
But if you crash and burn
The worst is you’re dead
And dying can’t be worse than life is
Over the edge
CHORUS:
Well I still don’t know what to do
I know it’s all an illusion
In fact – knowing that only adds
More confusion
I search for the truth
But mostly troubles I find
The truth can be costly
Troubles don’t cost a dime
You can have all you want
‘cause they’re there all the time
CHORUS:
Pain plain waitin’ for you
Over the edge
By Paul Barrere
1981 Barrere Music Inc. ASCAP

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GRINGO

gringo
southern California bound
gringo
take a stop and look around (come and lay your money down)
ain’t no banana republic, gringo
there’s oil deep beneath the ground
two or three weeks in Mexico
and you think you’ve seen it all
gringo
stars and stripes out in the cold
gringo
here’s a hand you can take hold of (even though we’re bought and sold)
drink coca-cola says the sign there
America has made its mark (they say blood is thicker than water)
Something tells me we really oughta
Come out of the dark
Night long saxophone
In the barrio (the chicas will warm you)
They can be persuasive gringo
With stars in their eyes
Spend a week in Acapulco
No Esperanto needed there
Lovers are like broken glass
They’re everywhere
(inst.)
(the chicas will warm you)
They can be persuasive gringo
With stars in their eyes
Gringo
Think of this before you leave
Gringo
The truth is easy to deceive (if truth you’re ready to receive)
Between the open road are your memories
Tender hearted though they be (they say blood is thicker than water) (they say all suffering comes to an end) (the common saying for friend is amigo)
Gringo
Red Cadillac at sunset
Slowing down
For another look
At that border town
By Bill Payne
1981 Streetlights Music ASCAP

Little Feat

iTCHOICE MON! by Neon Park

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"The Exile"

"The Miracle Worker" --Edie Bennett

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WE WOULD SINCERELY OR OTHERWISE LIKE TO THANK:

Warren Dewey
Robert appere
Donn Landee
Lee Herschberg
John Starling
Linda Ronstadt
David Hassinger
Andy Bloch
Carl Scott
Neon Park
Rick Harper
Van Dyke Parks
Elizabeth George
alfred e prinsmettle (alias Densmore)
Peter Asher
Tim “Brochette” Devine
Annie Shand
Ted Cohen
John T. Frankenheimer
Roscoe Herring
Roz Schrank
Jim Nyper
Nancy Gilkyson
C & R “no act under $25” Management
Veronica
The Nova Navy and The Komplex Kids
Pete Johnson who made this whole dance possible
Clyde Bakkemo
Gene “Where’s” Vano
David Reilly
Ron “Kunta” Koss
Ken “Dirty” Fowler
Flash Callahan
Ron Everything I say is True Merkle
Fred Martin
Rick Ducka
Coral Cade
Mitch Turner
Edie Bennett
Benita
Harvey Shapps
Smugglesnout Squattie
Mike Ward
Mike Hatchet
Ann Marie
Jamie Shoop
Bobbi “tales from the vault” Goga
Fran (Payne) Tate
Ron Goldstein
John Arrias
Damian
Steven Fargnoli
Howard Nesbitt “whooping” Croup III
KAC “they always lost on the road”
Sergio Reyes
Eddie Kalika
Cerph
Brad Kanawyer
Beth for food
Dan Nordby
And the very patient staffs not to mention the many pinball machines made richer at Amigo (Warner Bros. Recording) Studios
Sunset Sound Recorders
Western Recorders
TTG
GMS
Sunwest
R.C.A. Studios, New York
Cherokee Studios
The Manor Truck
The Fedco Truck
Track Recorders, Silver Spring
The Sound Factory & Hotel Sound
Factory West (R.I.P. at the bottom)
Also thanks to Denis McNamara and Bob Kranes at WLIR, Michael Tapes and Jeff Kracke at Ultrasonic Recording, Long Island
. . . and many others whom we would like to thank personally.

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SIDE ONE

ROCKET IN MY POCKET
(Lowell George) Naked Snake Music
ASCAP
Lead Vocal & Chief Engineer: Lowell
Recorded at Saddle Peak Studios, 1978
“Lowell always needed access to a studio in order to work – he would just book straight time and work out tunes, He was viewed as a renaissance man by engineers; he was so open-minded about getting what he called ‘maximum information’ on tape that if you went with him, you would learn a lot – on the original guitar track for “All That You Dream" we pumped the guitar into every fucking room in the building, including the toilet, and then miked the hallways. I think ‘Rocket In My Pocket’ had its very beginnings during one of Lowell’s writing forays at Blue Seas Studios, but those first trial tapes were lost when the studio sank into Baltimore harbor-“
--George Massenburg, engineer and/or producer on albums as early as “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now” and as late as “Hoy-Hoy”! For further information on the sinking of Blue Seas, consult the accompanying brochette.

ROCK AND ROLL DOCTOR
(Lowell George, Fred Martin) Naked Snake Music ASCAP
Lead: Lowell
Background and Horns Arranged by: Allen Toussaint
Opposing Vocal: Paul and Sam
Recorded live, 1974 through 1976, for WLIR. Re-recorded at Blue Seas Baltimore, RCA N.Y.C., Sea-Saint Studios New Orleans, and Sound Factory West L.A. until nothing survived.
“Lowell was determined to make ‘Rock and Roll Doctor’ musically complicated, which made it a quite difficult process. Most songs are written in a quite straightforward formula, you know – A, B, C, section, chorus, bridge. But Lowell used to talk in terms of the cracked mosaic . . . and I think that song is a prime example of intentional irregularity.”
--Fred Martin, co-author of “Rock and Roll Doctor”

SKIN IT BACK
(Paul Barrere) Naked Snake Music

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Lowell George

Sam Clayton

Bill Payne

Kenny Gradney

Paul Barrere

Ritchie Hayward

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Ted Templeman, producer

. . . . . LITTLE FEAT . . . . . ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC