Feats Don't Fail Me Now | 
| Artist: Little Feat
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 9496
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2784
UPC: 075992728423
EAN: 0075992728423
ASIN: B000002KFB
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Rock & Roll Doctor | | • | Oh, Atlanta - Little Feat, Payne, Bill | | • | Skin It Back - Little Feat, Barrére, Paul | | • | Down the Road | | • | Spanish Moon | | • | Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat, Barrere, Paul | | • | The Fan - Little Feat, Payne, Bill | | • | Medley: Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie |
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One of those bands that perfectly epitomized so many things about the 1970s, Little Feat created a strangely smooth and sexy pastiche of Southern-spiced blues-rock. Main man Lowell George's undulant slide guitar marked the group's early recordings. His vocals, meanwhile, were distinctive in the manner in which he toyed with vowels as if they were yo-yos, tossing them up and down, this way and that. The albums recorded prior to George's 1979 death reflected a jazz influence (albeit one that would grow more pronounced as his influence in the band waned). Being based in Los Angeles also gave them a certain patina they may have lacked if they had been based in, say, Memphis. Feats Don't Fail Me Now features visiting guests Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris and a collection of tight, wryly observant songs. Don't Fail Me's 1973 predecessor, Dixie Chicken, is generally seen as Little Feat's must-have outing, but this album, too, holds up a stunningly strong demonstration the appeal of the band's rock-blues-jazz hybrid. --Lorry Fleming
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 Mount Everest of Feat August 3, 2004
Crampton Helms (Tennessee)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
When the big toe died,he took the feats with him. This was their best studio work. The writing, the musicianship, and most importantly, the groove--it all came together right here on two inch tape in a way they could never quite repeat in the studio ever again. I have listened to this album at home and in my car over and over for last 30 years and have never tired of it. I have learned and performed every song on this album in my own band, and while I love every song he wrote, I also have silently cursed the genius of Lowell for making something so complex and deeply funky sound so easy. If you break these songs down, you're going to find the chord structure on every verse is slightly different, the slide playing is nothing short of virtuostic, and the bass lines Kenny lays down are jaw-dropping. This album is easy to put on at a party and talk over, but you are missing one of the great productions of the twentieth century if you don't study it a bit. If you don't know who these guys were, but want to find out, I would recommend you start right here.
Sudden introduction January 24, 2005
K. E. Strayhorn Jr. (Chapel Hill, NC United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
So I'm at this party in the winter of '74, typical college affair, and I was sitting in front of the stereo trying to decide what to play next. My then-GF, just back from visiting her folks in California, hands me an album from a stack of new stuff she'd brought back with her. Now, at this point I was pretty jaded on rock and had been listening to fusion and jazz. She was smart enough to realize that Weather Report would kill a party so she says "put this on to keep the vibe going" and it was Feats Don't Fail Me Now.
I was instantly hooked. What chops! Who are these guys! Remember, this was in the day of no Internet, no real underground college radio, no nothing. It was hard to hear new bands, and they were new to us on the East Coast.
What really caught my ear was "Skin It Back" with those odd rhythms and changes, and over all George's slinky slide playing. I ran out and bought "Dixie Chicken" the next day and those two albums stayed on my turntable for months, only surplanted when Steely Dan came on the scene to also blow me away. And whenever I think of the general excellence of music in the mid-70s, Little Feat and Steely Dan come to mind
So, Denise, if you read this - hope you are happy and life has treated you kindly. Thanks for turning me on to Little Feat. I hope I can continue the karma by turning someone else on to them.
The Best GROUP EFFORT by Little Feat November 12, 2004
M. S. Ulbricht (The Great Northwest, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Of the 3 Best Little Feat recordings, (Sailin' Shoes, Dixie Chicken, and Feats Don't Fail Me Now), I'd say that that this Album is the BEST "GROUP EFFORT" of the 3. It's not "DOMINATED" by Lowell, thus the "ENTIRE GROUP" plays its "TIGHTEST" and most "ECLECTIC" set. Also, there are no "SPARTAN" or "SPARSE" cuts on this Wonderful Recording; every song is "FULL" and "RICH." So, Sailin' Shoes is the best "LOWELL GEORGE" album by The Feat, Dixie Chicken is their most "SEMINAL" album, while Feats Don't Fail Me Now is their most "ELABORATE" and most "ENERGETIC" work.
I'd say this is the first Little Feat recording a person should buy, for there is not one "weak cut," and every song is played with a high level of ENERGY and VERVE. As soon as Lowell opens up with the "funky shuffle" Rock & Roll Doctor, the listener KNOWS they are in for ONE "GREAT RIDE" of absolutely DYNOMITE TUNES. Skin it Back, could well be the most "FUNKY" song ever played by a predominately white group. The horns on Spanish Moon are TIGHT AND NASTY; and so it goes until the record is done. If anybody isn't tappin' their feet and "PUMPED UP" after listening to Feats Don't Fail Me Now, then take their pulse, because they may well be dead..........recordings like this NEVER get stale or old........they just keep "ROCKING ON!"
Little Feat is "THE" LOST CLASSIC BAND, however, eventually more and more people seem to find em, because their entire catalog is just TOO GOOD to "stay hidden." Okay, GET OFF of YOUR "A**," GET ON YOUR FEAT, and BUY ONE OF THEIR OUTSTANDING RECORDINGS.....NOW!!! Adios all, and wherever you're at LOWELL, I hope that you've found some peace.
Classic album from a truly great American Original July 4, 1998
rdushin@prodigy.net (Cleveland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Form the opening of Rock and Roll Doctor to the closing notes of Cold, Cold, Cold/ Tripe Face Boogie medley, this album is filled with exceptional music. Just a few listens and you'll be singing along with every inspired lyric and in awe of a truly amazing band at the height of its powers.
tops September 13, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album was the best put forth by Little Feat. Ever. Dixie Chicken comes in 2nd. Sailin Shoes comes in 3rd. (From someone who listened to this stuff when it first came out.) Buy them in that order.
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