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Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat

Little Feat - Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat Audio CD

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Band: Little Feat
Title: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
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Release Date: 2000-09-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Strawberry Flats 2: Hamburger Midnight 3: Easy To Slip 4: Cold, Cold, Cold 5: Trouble 6: Tripe Face Boogie 7: Willin' 8: Cat Fever 9: Sailin' Shoes 10: Dixie Chicken 11: Two Trains 12: Roll Um Easy 13: Fat Man In The Bathtub 14: Fool Yourself 15: Spanish Moon 16: Rock And Roll Doctor 17: Oh Atlanta 18: Skin It Back 19: Feats Don't Fail Me Now 20: Mercenary Territory 21: All That You Dream 22: Long Distance Love 23: Day Or Night 24: Hi Roller 25: Time Loves A Hero 26: Rocket In My Pocket 27: Old Folks Boogie 28: Day At The Dog Races 29: Fat Man In The Bathtub - (live) 30: All That You Dream - (live) 31: Mercenary Territory - (live) 32: Spanish Moon - (live) 33: 20 Million Things 34: Down On The Farm 35: Six Feet Of Snow 36: Gringo 37: Lonesome Whistle 38: Front Page News 39: Fan, The - (live) 40: Red Streamliner - (live) 41: Teenage Nervous Breakdown - (live) 42: Hate To Lose Your Lovin' 43: Let It Roll 44: Hangin' On To The Good Times 45: Rad Gumbo 46: Texas Twister 47: Representing The Mambo 48: Ingenue, The 49: Shake Me Up 50: Things Happen 51: Borderline Blues 52: Cadillac Hotel 53: Ain't Had Enough Fun 54: Can't Be Satisfied - (live) / They're Red Hot (Hot Tamales) - (live) 55: Home Ground 56: Blues Don't Tell It All, The 57: Eden's Wall 58: Lightning-Rod Man 59: Crack In Your Door 60: Teenage Nervous Breakdown 61: Juliet 62: Jazz Thing In 10 63: Rat Faced Dog 64: Doglines 65: Wait Till The Shit Hits The Fan 66: Easy To Fall (Easy To Slip) - (demo) 67: Texas Rose Cafe - (demo) 68: Doriville 69: Boogie 70: Two Trains - (demo) 71: Roto/Tone 72: Ace In The Hole (Hi Roller) 73: Eldorado Slim 74: Feats Don't Fail Me Now 75: Brickyard Blues 76: All That You Dream 77: Down Below The Borderline - (demo) 78: Rockin' Shoes I & II 79: Front Page News 80: High Roller 81: Roll 'Em Easy 82: Boogie Wigwam 83: Buck

Economical + rareties
The unreleased material is often not of the quality of the formal releases but has historical interest when nothing else. An excellent collection of Little Feats "best of" music, w/ and w/o Lowell Goerge, plus an entire CD of unreleased Goerge work. Good selection of album entrees w/ less emphasis on Waiting For Columbus which is great because many own already. Every American music collection needs some or alot of Little Feat to in order to be respectable!.

A Fitting Tribute
For some it's about the rare previously unreleased gems; for others it's the comprehensiveness of a body of work, and, then there are those that want it all. Boxed sets can represent many things to many people. So boxed sets more often than not are doomed to disappoint. Or become an archival geek collector's treasure that rarely gets played. But this set is the real thing. Throw any disc into your changer and you will be transported into that sweaty summery feeling of rock and roll. Energy from one song slips into the tenderness of the next, yet no one takes anything too seriously. Every Little Feat fan has a favourite album that takes them to a special place in their past. This set will transport you from that moment into countless other destinations. If you are into the rock and roll as defined by musicians like Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and NRBQ these discs will spend a lot of time churning through your speakers. And this is the real test of R and R boxed sets. They need to get played LOUD.
Get it soon. these boxed sets have a habit of disapearing.

Feats never failed them

A wonderful retrospective of a great american band. A must have for any fan of jambands, blues-rock, folk-rock and southern fried boogie.

Lowell George was one of the finest songwriters in rock. And a great guitar player.

Exceptional compilation with a disc of rarities/unreleased tracks worthwhile for Feat fans
George wasn't Little Feat but as its founder he was the heart and soul of the band. Lowell George left some big shoes to fill when he died. When he passed away prematurely in his 30's, it seemed like it was the end of the band. However the band did regroup with the same line up plus additional members to fill in the void left by George. This terrific overview of the band's career covers all of their seminal Warner Brothers recordings on the first two discs and includes pre-Warner recordings that George made with the band before being signed. The third disc consists of material from the 80's and 90's incarnations (the set was released in 2000).

The fourth disc includes previously unreleased material, alternate takes of Feat classics and a single track from George's band before Little Feat The Factory. The booklet is terrific with a great essay about the band's history, George and why the band decided to carry on without George. While George was an essential part of the band, he had distanced himself after the fourth album ("Feats Don't Fail Me Now")writing less than before due to his health problems.

While some of the live tracks that were NOT on the original "Waiting for Columbus" included here did eventually surface on the 2 disc remaster of that album, it's still great to have them here in one spot. This is probably one of the best compilations that Rhino has assembled in the past 10 years because 1) no band was more deserving 2) Although they didn't sell a boatload of records they were a huge influence on other bands 3) The compilation covers a broad canvas of time and a variety of record labels. Only Rhino could have licensed all this stuff for use in one place. I didn't give the set five stars because, while the material that Little Feat did after George's death is extremely good, the band is still missing its heart and soul. 4 1/2 stars.

Litlle Feats best stuff
The tracks are all the best of Feats. I thoroughly enjoyed this set from beginning to end. My only issue could be with the final CD. Some of the material is just not worth bothering with but does have some curiosity factor attached to it. This is a must buy for any serious Feats fan.

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