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“When Lowell [George] and I first got together,” Little Feat co-founder Bill Payne remembered to author Bob Mehr in 2022, “our philosophical discussions became about what kind of band we want to be in. We’re not going to be a blues band…but we’ll play some blues. We’re not going to be a country band…but we’ll play some country. The idea was that it was supposed to be eclectic and not just one thing.”
Their 2nd & 3rd albums (Sailin’ Shoes was issued in 1972 while Dixie Chicken followed in ’73) have been remastered and recut to vinyl and the expanded 2CD and 3LP editions offer previously unreleased studio outtakes and demos, and complete unreleased live shows (same content on vinyl and CD).
Sailin’ Shoes includes the classic and much covered ‘Willin”, as well as the title track which Robert Palmer recorded for his debut album Sneaking Sally Through The Alley. In fact, so smitten was Palmer with Little Feat as musicians, that they became his backing band on a few tracks on his second solo album, 1975’s Pressure Drop. Dixie Chicken features songs such as ‘Two Trains’, ‘Fat Man in the Bathtub’ and of course the brilliant title track.
