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Little Feat - Raw Tomatos Audio CD

A fair review of the Little Feat "Raw Tomatos" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Little Feat reviews here, or go back to the Little Feat tabs.

Little Feat Band: Little Feat
Title: Raw Tomatos
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-06-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Crack in Your Door 2: The Fan 3: Trouble 4: Apolitical Blues 5: Fat Man in the Bathtub 6: Sailin' Shoes 7: Teenage Nervous Breakdown 8: Ass for Days 9: Gringo 10: Rocket In My Pocket 11: Long Distance Love 12: Long Time 'Til I Get Over You 13: Change in Luck 14: Mojo Haiku 15: Those Feat'll Steer You Wrong Sometimes 16: Strawberry Flats 17: Six Feet Of Snow 18: Shake Me Up 19: Business As Usual 20: Rock 'n Roll Doctor 21: Time Loves a Hero 22: The Blues Don't Tell It All 23: Voodoo Jam 24: Honest Man 25: Blue Jean Blues 26: Rocket In My Pocket 27: Old Folks Boogie 28: Rio Esperanza 29: Borderline Blues 30: Let It Roll 31: Missin' You

Essential Material for the True Fans
Lowell George was simply brilliant as a songwriter, guitar player, vocalist, and bandleader. The original Little Feat can be easily ranked among the five or ten most essential American Rock & Roll Bands of all time. His untimely death in 1979 was as tragic as the passing of Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, and Brian Jones.

Little Feat was a uniquely talented band, and the remaining members were able to regroup and become a substantial musical entity in their own right. This album, along with the complimentary release "Ripe Tomatos" provides compelling evidence that the current incarnation of Little Feat (Feat Mark III) is as relevant as any band on the planet today, in addition this set provides further validation of Lowell George as a bona fide musical genius.

i would recommend that newcomers begin with the following albums as the essential Little Feat primer:

Salin Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Waiting for Columbus (GET THE REISSUE)
Little Feat (first album)
Hoy Hoy
Last Record Album
Shake Me Up
Under the Radar

This solid CD compliments the others and has essential versions of Borderline Blues, Blue Jean Blues, Strawberry Flats (post Lowell version), among others.

Highly recommended from a lifelong fan.


Manure Milkshake

That's the problem with this collection, which bundles together unreleased live tracks from several editions of Little Feat. All of a cow's output is valuable to SOMEone -- ice cream for kids, cowpies for the farmers' fields -- but their value goes down when you mix 'em together. Each incarnation of the band is good and has loyal followers, but the 30-year span leads to some differences in tastes.

Me, I'm an old guy, and I think no rock band anywhere was better than the original Feat, so the Lowell George-era tracks in this collection are treasures to me. (I don't even mind the unpolished sound quality, a far cry from their gorgeous live classic, Waiting for Columbus). It's just a treat to hear him sing and play again, and to catch the group's magical chemistry, amazing drive, and humorous abandon. It's like finding a scrapbook of long gone friends - bittersweet for sure, but heartwarming.

But I can do without the most recent stuff, which though competent is unremarkable. The music is well-played but generic southern rock, sticking close to the studio versions. The current lineup has many rabid fans who will no doubt treasure hearing some new rockin' versions of "their" Feat (also with rough soundboard mixes and cassette fidelity).

So overall, this collection will really please no one but the most diehard fans, or those willing to ignore the parts not directed at them. If you don't count yourself in those categories, stick with their other releases.


ketchup to raw tomatos with relish
what a brilliant set of rarities. . for those who don't have it, and for those who don't "get it", raw tomatos (and its companion, ripe tomatos) could be categorized as authorized bootlegs, compiled and sanctioned by the group itself on their own new record label. . . and what performances - too many to list, but suffice to say that it is a gumbo of recordings that show off the breadth and depth of their musicianship and their uniquely skewed cartoon americana perspective.

with this (and hopefully much more of the same) little feat gives further evidence that their legacy equals that of the other great american bands - . . . but their continued musical growth is astonishing. buy this, and then go see them.


CLASSIC with a Capital C
Although sound quality may not be the greatest on all tracks Raw is still an awesome collection of some of the finest pieces of live Feat shows covering all era's- Lowell, Craig and Shaun.


Not enough Lowell
About one third of this 2 cd set features Little Feat. that great band from the 1970's that had the distinctive and irreplacable Lowell George on vocals and slide guitar. The other two thirds of this albums features some other band playing Little Feat songs. If it had been all Little Feat, I would have rated it 5 stars.


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