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1. Rock And Roll Doctor

2. Oh Atlanta

3. Skin It Back

4. Down The Road

5. Spanish Moon

6. Feets Don't Fail Me Now

7. The Fan

8. 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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180 gram pressing of 1974 album. Warner.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Unsteady Feat, Aug 8 2005

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Bill Saunders (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

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The sound's there but the songs ain't. After intially missing Little Feat in the Seventies, I caught up through Sailin' Shoes
and Dixie Chicken. Lowell George's laid back vocals and that
spacious, loose funk caught a real groove. Don't Fail Me Now's
got the funk but much less George and little melody, boogie
without the verse. Where's the tunes like Easy to Slip and Dixie Chicken? It really deserves two and half stars but fans of boogie
will argue.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Their Best, April 16 2004

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Dan Hugos (Mamaroneck, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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Come on, you can't find a weak track here - it is so clearly their best effort, Dixie Chicken not withstanding. Every sort of music they ever explored, with or without Lowell George, it was done first and/or best on this album. It captured the potential of what they could do live on a given night. The first time I saw them was in a small theatre in 1976, a terrific show, with Lowell George the bandleader - a magnificent and vastly underappreciated talent. The second time, in 1978 they were playing areas on the strength of Waiting for Columbus, which was a pretty good album, but to really know Little Feat, you gotta have Feats.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lowell George creates wall to wall great music, Nov 10 2003

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Little Feat are an ill-fated band that should rank among the 'jam-rock' elite. As everybody surely knows they produced one of the finest (if not the absolute finest) live albums ever created. They set a standard for live albums; the prodcution, song-choice, addition of certain non-music factors, and addition of a famed horn section showed Feat as a supreme and masterful live act. Often imitated, rarely duplicated.

But what of their studio work. Bands considered to be 'live-bands' are hardly known for their studio efforts, but Little Feat have put that supposition to rest. "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" is an excellent album. It contaigs wall to wall greatness. "Rock & Roll Doctor" and "Oh! Atlanta" are fantastic boogie songs. Great openers to an album. "Rock & Roll Doctor" contains a great structure, as well as tremendous vocal abilities. "Atlanta" is as catchy as they come, it is a great sing-along and a great road song. Other highlights are the title track, which is a great highways and bi-ways sort of song. It is very reminiscent of some of the 'Dixie Chicken' material. The final "Cold, Cold, Cold/Tripe Face Boogie" medley is a great jam chalk-full of grooves and tons of Lowell Georges prodical slide guitar. Of course the highlight of the album is "Spanish Moon" a song that's sound greatly accompanies it's story. Listening to the song I can just imagine walking into the Spanish Moon, laying my eyes upon hookers and hustlers, it is a very 70's song. (Note, this is my favorite Feat song, but the Waiting For Columbus version is ten times better). Overall this album is my great. It isn't overly serious, it isn't excessive or self-indulgent. It is merely good fun by a band that knew how to play.

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4.0 out of 5 stars One of Little Feat's better albums
Feats Don't Fail Me Now shows Little Feat beginning to expand their sound. Where their previous albums had been more laid back, there's more diversity here. Read more

Published on May 11 2003 by John Alapick

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually it's one of the best albums ever made
I must respectfully disagree that Rock and Roll Doctor and Spanish Moon sound like unfinished demos. If you like the sound of shuffling feet, you'll love this. Read more

Published on April 1 2003 by Michael