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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Washington, DC
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Bill Payne
Bill Payne (born March 12, 1949, Waco, Texas, USA) is a founding member of American rock band Little Feat. He is considered by many other piano rock musicians, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists. In addition to his trademark barrelhouse blues piano, he is noted for his work on other keyboard instruments, particularly the Hammond B3 organ. Payne is also an accomplished songwriter whose credits include the Little Feat classic, "Oh, Atlanta."
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941) is an American musician and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo oboe and shehnai. His music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition. An iconoclastic mix of complex instrumentation, atonal melodies, and often humorously surreal lyrics, it was crafted through dictatorial control over his musicians and creative vision.
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Coco Montoya
Coco Montoya (born Henry Montoya, October 2, 1951, Santa Monica, California) is an American blues guitarist and former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.
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Craig Fuller
Craig Fuller is an American musician and songwriter. Co-founder of Pure Prairie League, along with John David Call and George Ed Powell. Fuller departed after their second album, ''Bustin' Out'', due to draft board problems. He returned to the music business in 1976 for two LPs with American Flyer. After American Flyer dissolved, Fuller returned to record one LP with former Flyer member Eric Kaz.
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
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Fats Waller
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Frank Zappa
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Fred Tackett
Fred Tackett, an American native of Arkansas, is an accomplished songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Originally a session player on guitar, mandolin, and trumpet, he is best known for his longevity as a member of the band Little Feat.
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Gabe Ford
Gabe Ford (born June 8, 1973) is an American musician probably best known as the current drummer for Little Feat. He was born into a musical family. His father, Patrick, is also a musician as are his uncles Mark Ford and Robben Ford. He plays drums, guitar and keyboards.
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962), best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon.. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
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Heart attack
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Hubert Sumlin
Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is an American blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing is characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions". Listed as number sixty-five in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Sumlin continues to tour and play blues guitar. He is cited as a major influence by many artists, including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.
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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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Jimmy Carl Black
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Joe Walsh
:For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastian, Jr. (March 17, 1944, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there.
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Keisuke Kuwata
has gained fame as a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and frontman for the Southern All-Stars, as well as his own solo band, the Kuwata band. He has lent a significant amount of his time scoring music to film. He went to Aoyama Gakuin University.
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Kenny Gradney
Kenny Gradney, a native of New Orleans, is a member of the band Little Feat. He joined after their second album, replacing founding bassist Roy Estrada in 1972.
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Lowell George
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Mick Taylor
Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor (born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones. During his tenure with those bands, Taylor gained a reputation as a reliable technical guitarist with a preference for blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll and a talent for slide guitar. Since his resignation from the Rolling Stones in December 1974, Taylor has worked with numerous other artists as well as releasing a number of solo albums.
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Mike Gordon
Mike Gordon (born June 3, 1965 in Sudbury, Massachusetts) is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion. He is also an award-winning filmmaker.
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Mothers of Invention
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Nicolette Larson
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Paul Barrere
Paul Barrere (born July 3, 1948 in Burbank, California) is a current member of the band Little Feat, having joined the band in 1972. Barrere has also recorded and performed with many notable musicians including Chicken Legs, Blues Busters, (featuring Catfish Hodge), Valerie Carter, Helen Watson, Chico Hamilton, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Palmer, Eikichi Yazawa, and Carly Simon.
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Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.
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Richard Shindell
Richard Shindell (born 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk songwriter. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife and their children.
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Richie Hayward
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Ron Holloway
Ronald Edward "Ron" Holloway, born August 24, 1953 in Washington, D.C., is an American tenor saxophonist. He is listed in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz where veteran jazz critic Ira Gitler describes Holloway as a "bear-down-hard-bopper who can blow authentic R&B; and croon a ballad with warm, blue feeling." Holloway is the recipient of 42 Washington, D.C. music awards- Wammie Awards, two of which he received as musician of the year.
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Roy Estrada
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Ry Cooder
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947) is a US guitarist, singer and composer.
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Sam Bush
Sam Bush (born April 13, 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.
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Sam Clayton
Sam Clayton has been a singer and percussionist, primarily focusing on drums; conga and djembe, throughout his musical career. He is best known for his membership as drummer and supporting vocalist with the American rock band Little Feat since 1972.
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Stephen Bruton
Stephen Bruton (November 7, 1948 - May 9, 2009) was an American musician.
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Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist, an actor and has written and directed a play.
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Taylor Hicks
Taylor Reuben Hicks (born October 7, 1976) is an American singer who achieved fame in 2006, when he won the fifth season of American Idol. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. Upon winning Idol, he was signed to Arista Records, under which his self-titled major label debut was released on December 12, 2006. His energetic stage performances and influences derived from classic rock, blues, and R&B; music had earned him a following of devout fans, who have been dubbed the "Soul Patrol." He is currently on tour in Grease playing Teen Angel, the role originated by Alan Paul. The new CD, The Distance, was released March 10, 2009, with the first single, "What's Right Is Right", going to AC adds January 27, 2009. The second single was confirmed to be "Seven Mile Breakdown" via his Myspace page.
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The Bridge (band)
The Bridge is an American jam band. They are based out of Baltimore, Maryland and formed between 2001 and 2002. The band is known for their live performances, blending "various elements of blues, folk, funk and bluegrass"
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Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles on the U.S. Billboard charts as Hot Country Songs, and has sold more than 22 million albums. He has been honored by the Country Music Association with 18 CMA Awards, including two Entertainer of the Year awards and five Male Vocalist Awards. Gill has also earned 20 Grammy Awards, more than any other male Country music artist. In 2007, Gill was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Vince Herman
Vince Herman is a guitarist and singer best known for being one of the founding members of Leftover Salmon. Leftover Salmon started in 1989 as somewhat of a melding of the Left Hand String Band and the Salmonheads, and became more and more popular over the sixteen years that followed. The band decided to go their separate ways in 2005, but still play together (billed as Leftover Salmon) on occasion. Since the hiatus, Herman formed a new band named Great American Taxi, who released their debut album in 2007.
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- A Apolitical Blues
- A Distant Thunder
- Ain't Had Enough Fun
- All That You Dream
- Be One Now
- Bed Of Roses
- Boom Box Car
- Brides Of Jesus
- Business As Usual
- Cadillac Hotel
- Cajun Girl
- Calling The Children Home
- Cat Fever
- Changin' Luck
- CHINA WHITE
- Chinese Work Songs
- Clownin'
- Cold, Cold, Cold
- Crack In Your Door
- Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie
- Daily Grind
- Day or Night
- Dixie Chicken
- Don't try SO hard
- Down Below The Borderline
- Down In Flames
- Drivin' Blind
- Easy To Slip
- Eden's Wall
- Eula
- Falling Through The Worlds
- Fast & Furious
- Fat Man In The Bathtub
- Feel The Groove
- Feelin's All Gone
- Ferocious Morning
- Fool Yourself
- Front Page News
- Gimme A Stone
- Got No Shadow
- Gringo
- Hamburger Midnight
- Hangin On To The Good Times
- Hate To Lose Your Lovin'
- Heaven's Where You Find It
- Home Ground
- Hoy Hoy
- I Got Happiness
- I've Been The One
- Join The Band
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ALBUMS
- Crack in Your Door
- The Fan
- Trouble
- Cat Fever
- Texas Rose Cafe
- Lafayette Railroad
- Hamburger Midnight Blues
- Apolitical Blues
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Cold Cold Cold / Dixie Chicken
- Sailin' Shoes
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown
- Long Distance Love
- Down Below the Borderline
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Tripe Face Boogie
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Something in the Water
- Dixie Chicken
- See You Later Alligator
- Champion of the World
- The Weight
- Don't Ya Just Know It
- Time Loves a Hero
- Willin'
- This Land Is Your Land
- Oh Atlanta
- Spanish Moon
- Trouble
- Sailin' Shoes
- I Will Play for Gumbo
- Hi Roller
- Time Loves a Hero
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Day at the Dog Races
- Old Folks Boogie
- Red Streamliner
- New Delhi Freight Train
- Keepin' Up With the Joneses
- Missin' You
- Marginal Creatures
- One Clear Moment / Sunday Jam
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Spanish Moon / Skin It Back
- Dixie Chicken
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- Hamburger Midnight
- Cold Cold Cold
- Tripe Face Boogie
- Willin'
- Dixie Chicken
- Roll Um Easy
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Fool Yourself
- All That You Dream (live)
- Oh Atlanta (live)
- Hi Roller
- Time Loves a Hero
- Down on the Farm
- Let It Roll
- Rad Gumbo
- Cadillac Hotel
- Home Ground
- Time Loves A Hero
- Day Or Night
- Cadillac Hotel
- Spanish Moon
- Skin It Back
- Cajun Girl
- Night On The Town
- I'd Be Lyin'
- The Blues Don't Tell It All
- Lafayette Railroad
- Dixie Chicken
- Tripe Face Boogie
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Oh, Atlanta
- Willin'
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Night on the Town
- Heaven Forsaken
- I'd Be Lyin'
- Corazones y Sombras
- Walking as Two
- In a Town Like This
- Fighting the Mosquito Wars
- Stomp
- Why Don't It Look Like the Way That It Talk
- I Do What the Telephone Tells Me to Do
- Bill's River Blues
- Willin'
- Don't Bogart That Joint
- A Apolitical Blues
- Sailin' Shoes
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- One Love Stand
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Skin It Back
- On Your Way Down
- Walkin' All Night
- Cold, Cold, Cold
- Day at the Dog Races
- Skin It Back
- Red Streamliner
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown
- Rock and Roll Doctor
- Time Loves a Hero
- The Blues Don't Tell It All (Redo)
- Voodoo Jam
- Honest Man
- Blue Jean Blues
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Old Folks Boogie (acoustic)
- Rio Esperanza
- Borderline Blues
- Let It Roll
- Missin' You (Redo)
- Crack in Your Door
- The Fan
- Trouble - (demo)
- Apolitical Blues
- Fat Man in the Bathtub - (demo)
- Sailing Shoes
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown
- Ass for Days
- Gringo
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Long Distance Love
- Long Time Til I Get Over You
- Changing Luck
- Mojo Haiku
- Those Feat Will Steer Ya Wrong Sometimes
- Strawberry Flats
- Six Feet of Snow
- Shake Me Up
- Business as Usual
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Honest Man
- Oh, Atlanta
- Calling the Children Home
- Rag Mama Rag
- Shake Me Up
- Easy to Slip / I Know You Rider
- Bed of Roses
- One Clear Moment
- Willin'
- The Ingenue (acoustic)
- Loved and Lied To
- Texas Rose Cafe
- Under the Radar
- Cadillac Hotel
- Ain't Had Enough Fun
- Vale of Tears
- Eden's Wall
- Voices on the Wind
- This Land Is Your Land
- Blue Jean Blues
- I Got Happiness
- A Apolitical Blues
- Two Trains
- Got No Shadow, Part 1
- The Fan
- Texas Rose Café
- Snakes on Everything
- Cat Fever
- Fat Man in Bathtub
- Walkin' All Night
- Sailin' Shoes
- Let It Roll
- Feets Don't Fail Me Now
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Sailin' Shoes
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- All That You Dream
- Oh, Atlanta
- Hoy Hoy (Or Blues Don't It Tell All)
- Home Ground
- Eden's Wall
- Strawberry Flats
- Hamburger Midnight
- Easy to Slip
- Cold, Cold, Cold
- Trouble
- Tripe Face Boogie
- Willin'
- Cat Fever
- Sailin' Shoes
- Dixie Chicken
- Two Trains
- Roll Um Easy
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Fool Yourself
- Spanish Moon (single version)
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Oh, Atlanta
- Skin It Back
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- Mercenary Territory
- All That You Dream (single version)
- Long Distance Love
- Day or Night
- Rat Faced Dog
- Willin'
- Easy to Slip
- Sailin' Shoes
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Dixie Chicken
- Spanish Moon (single version)
- Oh, Atlanta
- Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)
- All That You Dream (single version)
- Hi Roller
- Time Loves a Hero
- Mercenary Territory (live)
- Texas Twister
- Home Ground
- Let It Roll
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Take a Train to Cry
- Under the Radar / On Your Way Down
- Oh, Atlanta
- Let It Roll
- Willin' / Don't Bogart That Joint
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Gimme a Stone
- Rag Mama Rag
- Evla
- Bed of Roses
- Sample in a Jar
- Just Another Sunday
- Gimme a Stone
- Rio Esperanza
- Tattoo Heart
- Marginal Creatures
- Chinese Work Songs
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Home Ground
- Eden's Wall
- A Distant Thunder
- Hoy Hoy
- Under the Radar
- Vale of Tears
- Loco Motives
- Ferocious Morning
- Voiceless Territory (Intro to Falling Through the Worlds)
- Falling Through the Worlds
- The Blues Don't Tell It All
- I Got Happiness
- Calling the Children Home
- Introduction
- Two Trains
- Spanish Moon / Skin It Back
- Rock & Roll Everynight
- Down on the Farm
- Willin'
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- Can't Be Satisfied / They're Red Hot (Hot Tamales)
- Cadillac Hotel
- Changin' Luck
- You're Taking Up Another Man's Place
- Oh, Atlanta
- Drivin' Blind
- Blue Jean Blues
- Cadillac Hotel
- Romance Without Finance
- Big Bang Theory
- Cajun Rage
- Heaven's Where You Find It
- Borderline Blues
- All That You Can Stand
- Rock & Roll Everynight
- Shakeytown
- Ain't Had Enough Fun
- That's a Pretty Good Love
- Spider's Blues (Might Need It Sometime)
- Shake Me Up
- Things Happen
- Mojo Haiku
- Loved and Lied To
- Don't Try So Hard
- Boom Box Car
- Fast & Furious
- Livin' on Dreams
- Clownin'
- Down in Flames
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- One Clear Moment
- Cajun Girl
- Hangin' on to the Good Times
- Listen to Your Heart
- Let It Roll
- Long Time Till I Get Over You
- Business as Usual
- Changin' Luck
- Voices on the Wind
- Texas Twister
- Daily Grind
- Representing the Mambo
- Woman in Love
- Rad Gumbo
- Teenage Warrior
- That's Her, She's Mine
- Feelin's All Gone
- Those Feat'll Steer Ya Wrong Sometimes
- The Ingenue
- Silver Screen
- Dixie Chicken
- Willin'
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Two Trains
- Truck Stop Girl
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Trouble
- Sailin' Shoes
- Spanish Moon
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- Oh, Atlanta
- All That You Dream
- Long Distance Love
- Mercenary Territory
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Texas Twister
- Let It Roll
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- Old Folks Boogie
- 20 Million Things
- Romance Dance
- All That You Dream
- Long Distance Love
- Day or Night
- One Love Stand
- Down Below the Borderline
- Somebody's Leavin'
- Mercenary Territory
- "Bonus Announcement"
- Don't Bogart That Joint (live)
- A Apolitical Blues (live)
- Down on the Farm
- Six Feet of Snow
- Perfect Imperfection
- Kokomo
- Be One Now
- Straight From the Heart
- Front Page News
- Wake Up Dreaming
- Feel the Groove
- Snakes on Everything
- Strawberry Flats
- Truck Stop Girl
- Brides of Jesus
- Willin'
- Hamburger Midnight
- Forty Four Blues / How Many More Years
- Crack in Your Door
- I've Been the One
- Takin' My Time
- Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie
- Dixie Chicken
- Two Trains
- Roll Um Easy
- On Your Way Down
- Kiss It Off
- Fool Yourself
- Walkin' All Night
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Juliette
- Lafayette Railroad
- Rock and Roll Doctor
- Oh, Atlanta
- Skin It Back
- Down the Road
- Spanish Moon
- Feets Don't Fail Me Now
- The Fan
- Medley: Cold Cold Cold / Tripe Face Boogie
- Easy to Slip
- Cold, Cold, Cold
- Trouble
- Tripe Face Boogie
- Willin'
- A Apolitical Blues
- Sailin' Shoes
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown
- Got No Shadow
- Cat Fever
- Texas Rose Cafe
- Dixie Chicken
- Willin'
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Trouble
- Sailin' Shoes
- Spanish Moon
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- All That You Dream
- Long Distance Love
- Mercenary Territory
- Old Folks Boogie
- 20 Million Things
- Rocket in My Pocket (acoustic demo)
- Rock & Roll Doctor (alternate version)
- Skin It Back (live)
- Easy to Slip
- Red Streamliner (live)
- Lonesome Whistle (demo)
- Front Page News
- The Fan (live)
- Forty-Four Blues / How Many More Years
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown (demo)
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown (live)
- Framed
- Strawberry Flats
- Gringo
- Over the Edge
- Two Trains (live)
- China White
- All That You Dream (live) (feat. Linda Ronstadt)
- Feets Don't Fail Me Now (live)
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Two Trains
- The Fan
- On Your Way Down
- Spanish Moon
- Skin It Back
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Oh, Atlanta
- Willin'
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
- Down on the Farm
- Just Another Sunday
- Love You Like a Woman
- Day or Night
- Why Don't It Look Like the Way That It Talk
- Representing the Mambo
- Daily Grind
- That's Her She's Mine
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Cadillac Hotel
- Representing the Mambo
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh
- Heaven Forsaken
- Spanish Moon
- Skin it Back
- Down on the Farm
- One Clear Moment
- Just Another Sunday
- Willin'
- Don't Bogart That Joint
- Night on the Town
- Cajun Girl
- So What
- Dark Star Jam
- Dixie Chicken
- Oh, Atlanta
- Rag Mama Rag
- Skin It Back
- Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Walkin' All Night
- Apolitical Blues
- Oh Atlanta
- On Your Way Down
- Day or Night
- All That You Dream
- Romance Dance
- Long Distance Love
- Cold Cold Cold
- Bag of Reds
- Willin"
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown
- Spanish Moon
- Louisiana Blues
- Can't Find My Way Back Home
- Ain't Goin' Down That Lonesome Road
- You Can Make Me Do What You Want To
- A Apolitical Blues
- Nothing Seems to Matter Without You
- Love Me Like a Man
- Live and Die
- Mean Old World
- Thats Alright Mama
- Got No Shadow
- On Your Way Down
- Walkin' All Night
- Two Trains
- Fat Man In The Bathtub
- All That You Dream
- One Clear Moment
- I Hate To Lose Your Lovin'
- Oh, Atlanta
- Skin It Back
- Rock & Roll Doctor
- Old Folks Boogie
- Let It Roll
- Dixie Chicken
- Tripe Face Boogie
- Willin'
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
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Little Feat Dixie Chicken
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:02
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Little Feat At Rainbow Theatre London 1977.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Dixie_Chicken
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:24
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Pinkpop music festival, The Netherlands, June 1976
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub
Little Feat - Willin'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
www.youtube.com to watch with better quality Lowell George's song for Dallas Alice live at Rockpalast 1977
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Willin'
Little Feat,Bonnie Raitt- Dixie Chicken
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
June 1977 Midnight Special with: Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris & Jesse Winchester.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat,Bonnie_Raitt_Dixie_Chicken
Little Feat Spanish Moon
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:34
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Little Feat At Rainbow Theatre London 1977. With The Tower Of Power horn section
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Spanish_Moon
Little Feat All That You Dream
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Live at Rockpalast Germany 1977
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_All_That_You_Dream
Little Feat's Bill Payne - Interview & In-Studio Performance at 92ZEW
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 19:41
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Little Feat's Bill Payne - Interview & In-Studio Performance at 92ZEW With Lee Ann Waterrs July 30, 2012 Before Little Feat's show at Soul Kitchen
http://wn.com/Little_Feat's_Bill_Payne_Interview_In-Studio_Performance_at_92ZEW
LIttle Feat - "Rooster Rag"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
DOWNLOAD THIS SONG HERE: bit.ly "Rooster Rag" is the title track from Little Feat's new album. Their first in 9 years, it features songs written by Bill Payne, Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett as well as 4 songs co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Filmed at the Alley in North Hollywood, California. Buy "Rooster Rag" at Amazon.com: amzn.to or iTunes: bit.ly
http://wn.com/LIttle_Feat_Rooster_Rag
Little Feat ~ Ebbets Field Full Concert 1973-7-19 Late Show
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 62:35
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
Little Feat ~ Ebbets Field Denver Colorado 1973-7-19 Late Show Full Concert Tuning/Intro A Apolitical Blues Two Trains Got No Shadow The Fan Texas Rose Cafe Snakes On Everything Cat Fever Walkin' All Night Sailin' Shoes Dixie Chicken Tripe Face Boogie **Hear Early Show: youtu.be
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_~_Ebbets_Field_Full_Concert_1973-7-19_Late_Show
Little Feat - Rock & Roll Doctor (HD) Live 1975 at Old Grey Whistle Test (1080p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Little Feat - "Rock & Roll Doctor" from the album "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" performed live 1975 at The Old Grey Whistle Test.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Rock_Roll_Doctor_HD_Live_1975_at_Old_Grey_Whistle_Test_1080p
Little Feat - Live at Rockpalast (Skin it Back)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 71:31
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Live_at_Rockpalast_Skin_it_Back
Little Feat - Down On The Farm - 10.02.10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:21
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
Little Feat - Lovelane Hoedown - Dedham, MA - Charity show for: Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program - 10.02.10 - Down On The Farm
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Down_On_The_Farm_100210
Little Feat - Long Distance Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
One of the best bands in the world, captured on VHS tape so lots of wow and flutter. Still, one of the most moving versions of this song I ever heard. God bless 'em.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Long_Distance_Love
LITTLE FEAT - Rock & Roll Doctor (1977)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
Soundcheck for the Rockpalast show. Grugahalle, Essen, Germany.
http://wn.com/LITTLE_FEAT_Rock_Roll_Doctor_1977
Little Feat "Willin"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
Waiting for Columbus
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Willin
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:18
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Little Feat perform Dixie Chicken with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jesse Winchester Live in 1977 on 'The Midnight Special'...........I just wish it had been an extended version going into 'Tripe Face Boogie'!!!
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Dixie_Chicken_with_Emmylou_Harris_Bonnie_Raitt_Live_1977_HQ_Video
Little Feat - Willin
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Little Feat - Willin
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Willin
Little Feat "Spanish Moon"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:38
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Waiting for Columbus
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Spanish_Moon
Little Feat - "Gimmie Shelter" w/ S. Bush, L. Campbell Negril, Jamaica 1-18-12 HD tripod
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:24
- Updated: 31 Aug 2012
Little Feat performs "Gimmie Shelter" with guests Sam Bush (mandolin & vocals), Larry Campbell (fiddle and vocals), and Craig Fuller (guitar & vocals), Vince Herman (guitar & vocals), Drew Emmitt (mandolin & vocals), Eli Emmitt (percussion) Silas Herman (mandolin), Wally Ingram (percussion), Tereasa Williams (vocals) during the annual Little Feat Fan Excursion at Breezes Resort in Negril, Jamaica on January 18, 2012. Paul Barrere - guitars, vocals Fred Tackett - guitars, mandolin, trumpet, vocals Bill Payne - keyboards, vocals Kenny Gradney - bass Sam Clayton - congas, vocals Gabe Ford - drums, vocals Support live music. Buy artist's studio CDs/DVDs and swag. Go to the Official Little Feat YouTube channel for more: www.youtube.com AND www.youtube.com littefeat.net
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Gimmie_Shelter_w_S_Bush,_L_Campbell_Negril,_Jamaica_1-18-12_HD_tripod
Little Feat- Long Distance Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Classic Track
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Long_Distance_Love
Little Feat--Roll Um Easy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
A gem of a song, subtle and beautiful.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat--Roll_Um_Easy
Little Feat interview with Grace Potter at Wakarusa 6-9-07
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:58
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
LIKE us on FACEBOOK www.facebook.com VISIT us @ MoBoogie.com moboogie.com FOLLOW us on TWITTER twitter.com Grace Potter and Scott Tournet of the Nocturnals interview the band Little Feat at the Wakarusa Music Festival in Lawrence, KS on 6-9-07. www.moboogie.net www.littlefeat.com www.littlefeat.net
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_interview_with_Grace_Potter_at_Wakarusa_6-9-07
Little Feat - Cold Cold Cold
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:10
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
Lowell at his best.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Cold_Cold_Cold
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Little Feat - Willin' sung by Lowell George Live 1977. HQ Video.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Little Feat performing Willin' probably their best known song. Written by and sung here by the hugely talented and sadly missed Lowell George Live in 1977. What an amazing band they were then....such sensitivity for each others playing....great balance. Lyrics: I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow I'm drunk and dirty, don't ya know, And I'm still willin' Out on the road late last night, Seen my pretty Alice in every head light Alice, Dallas Alice I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made I've driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed If you give me: weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin' to be movin' I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet And I'm still... willin' Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico Baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico And I been from Tuscon to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made I've driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin' to be movin'
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Willin'_sung_by_Lowell_George_Live_1977_HQ_Video
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:18
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Little Feat perform Dixie Chicken with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jesse Winchester Live in 1977 on 'The Midnight Special'...........I just wish it had been an extended version going into 'Tripe Face Boogie'!!!
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Dixie_Chicken_with_Emmylou_Harris_Bonnie_Raitt_Live_1977_HQ_Video
Tripe Face Boogie Little Feat Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
The 1970's produced some terrific bands and Little Feat for me at least was in the top 5. Of course, maybe that's due to being around the band from the beginning. This video shows just how great Lowell George was as a singer and guitarist. Drummer Richie Hayward was not only a monster player, but like his friend Lowell, a gifted with an impish sense of humor and very generous to fellow musicians. And the memory of those times when Richie invited me to sit in and play during rehearsals at Warner Bros., though 40 years ago, still remain clear and bright in my memories of that time. And the music Little Feat made remains as vivid and distinct . Great solo by Paul Barrere here along with Lowell. I played with the mix to brighten it up.
http://wn.com/Tripe_Face_Boogie_Little_Feat_Live
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:26
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978. Audio quality is higher than the existing vid thats here (imo)
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Skin_It_Back_live_1978
Little Feat- Two Trains (Live) 9/19/1974
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:20
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Little Feat performing Two Trains at Ultra Sonic Studios 9.19.74
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Two_Trains_Live_9_19_1974
Rock and Roll Doctor ~ Little Feat ~ Live 1976
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
7 June 1976 Geleen, Hollland
http://wn.com/Rock_and_Roll_Doctor_~_Little_Feat_~_Live_1976
Little Feat All That You Dream
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Live at Rockpalast Germany 1977
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_All_That_You_Dream
Little Feat Spanish Moon
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:34
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Little Feat At Rainbow Theatre London 1977. With The Tower Of Power horn section
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Spanish_Moon
Little FEAT live at the Rams Head Tavern May 2, 2010
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:50
- Updated: 29 Jun 2012
Little Feat is introducing its next release, Rams Head Revisited, with a series of free downloads. The downloads will appear periodically throughout the summer on the Little Feat website (www.LittleFeat.com ) in anticipation of the Fall release of the complete album. Photos by Chris Cafiero, Little FEAT Archivist.
http://wn.com/Little_FEAT_live_at_the_Rams_Head_Tavern_May_2,_2010
Little Feat - Oh, Atlanta from "Skin It Back - The Rockpalast Collection"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
For more info - www.eagle-rock.com This Little Feat DVD continues our series of releases from the archives of legendary German TV series Rockpalast. Filmed at the Grugahalle in Essen in 1977, just a few days before the recording of their legendary live album "Waiting For Columbus", this DVD captures the classic seventies Little Feat line-up led by the late Lowell George at the very peak of their powers. Also featured as a bonus is almost 30 minutes of never before seen alternative rehearsal versions including material that didn't make it into the final show. The setlist includes the classic tracks "Skin It Back", "Fat Man In The Bathtub", "Oh Atlanta", "Dixie Chicken", "Willin'", "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" and more. Bonus tracks include Rock n Roll Doctor which was dropped from the final set. Track Listing: 1) Skin It Back 2) Fat Man In The Bathtub 3) Oh, Atlanta 4) Day At The Dog Races 5) All That You Dream 6) Old Folks Boogie 7) Dixie Chicken 8) Tripe Face Boogie 9) Feats Dont Fail Me Now 10) Willin 11) Rocket In My Pocket Bonus Rehearsal Tracks: 1) Old Folks Boogie 2) Fat Man In The Bathtub 3) Rock n Roll Doctor 4) Skin It Back / Fat Man In The Bathtub 5) Oh, Atlanta 6) Willin
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Oh,_Atlanta_from_Skin_It_Back_The_Rockpalast_Collection
Honest Man - Little Feat - LIVE at Bonnaroo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:41
- Updated: 13 Sep 2012
Little Feat performs 'Honest Man' live at bonnaroo in 2008. 'Join the Band' hits stores Aug. 26 featuring friends like Dave Matthews, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Seger and Many More!
http://wn.com/Honest_Man_Little_Feat_LIVE_at_Bonnaroo
Little Feat - Down On The Farm - 10.02.10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:21
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Little Feat - Lovelane Hoedown - Dedham, MA - Charity show for: Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program - 10.02.10 - Down On The Farm
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Down_On_The_Farm_100210
Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
Little Feat Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. This number from their 1974 album "Dixie Chicken" rated as their finest album.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Fat_Man_In_The_Bathtub
Little Feat-Let It Roll LIVE Dec.09-1998
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:48
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Nice long jam
http://wn.com/Little_Feat-Let_It_Roll_LIVE_Dec09-1998
Little Feat - Willin'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
www.youtube.com to watch with better quality Lowell George's song for Dallas Alice live at Rockpalast 1977
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Willin'
Little Feat Live- 12-09-1998 Fat Man In The Bathtub
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:18
- Updated: 02 Jun 2012
feat
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Live_12-09-1998_Fat_Man_In_The_Bathtub
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:24
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Pinkpop music festival, The Netherlands, June 1976
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub
Little Feat- Oh Atlanta- Live at The Rainbow Theatre 8/02/78
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:08
- Updated: 03 Sep 2012
Little Feat performing at The Rainbow Theatre in London. Recordings from this concert were featured on their album "Waiting for Columbus".
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Oh_Atlanta_Live_at_The_Rainbow_Theatre_8_02_78
Little Feat Rare Live Video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:16
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Little Feat performance. Taken from the Nyquest Live Music Archive
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Rare_Live_Video
Little Feat - Let It Roll (Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
© 2005 WMG Let It Roll (Video)
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Let_It_Roll_Video
LITTLE FEAT LIVE! at the FILLMORE SF 9-1-88 "Let It Roll"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
KFOG 104.5 San Francisco. Live broadcast of at the famous Bill Graham Fillmore Auditorium in 1988, performing their hit "Let It Roll"
http://wn.com/LITTLE_FEAT_LIVE!_at_the_FILLMORE_SF_9-1-88_Let_It_Roll
Little Feat-Dixie Chicken
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett, the heart of Little Feat, recorded live in Carmel in 2003. Video by Mark Howard and Ed Heffelfinger.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat-Dixie_Chicken
Little Feat - Cold Cold Cold
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:10
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Lowell at his best.
http://wn.com/Little_Feat_Cold_Cold_Cold
3:30
Little Feat - Willin' sung by Lowell George Live 1977. HQ Video.
Little Feat performing Willin' probably their best known song. Written by and sung her...
published: 22 Nov 2009
author: Muppet1950
Little Feat - Willin' sung by Lowell George Live 1977. HQ Video.
Little Feat performing Willin' probably their best known song. Written by and sung here by the hugely talented and sadly missed Lowell George Live in 1977. What an amazing band they were then....such sensitivity for each others playing....great balance. Lyrics: I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow I'm drunk and dirty, don't ya know, And I'm still willin' Out on the road late last night, Seen my pretty Alice in every head light Alice, Dallas Alice I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made I've driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed If you give me: weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin' to be movin' I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet And I'm still... willin' Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico Baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico And I been from Tuscon to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made I've driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin' to be movin'
published: 22 Nov 2009
author: Muppet1950
3:18
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.
Little Feat perform Dixie Chicken with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jesse Winchester L...
published: 22 Nov 2009
author: Muppet1950
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.
Little Feat perform Dixie Chicken with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jesse Winchester Live in 1977 on 'The Midnight Special'...........I just wish it had been an extended version going into 'Tripe Face Boogie'!!!
published: 22 Nov 2009
author: Muppet1950
5:32
Tripe Face Boogie Little Feat Live
The 1970's produced some terrific bands and Little Feat for me at least was in the top...
published: 26 Jan 2011
author: WestLAGuy
Tripe Face Boogie Little Feat Live
The 1970's produced some terrific bands and Little Feat for me at least was in the top 5. Of course, maybe that's due to being around the band from the beginning. This video shows just how great Lowell George was as a singer and guitarist. Drummer Richie Hayward was not only a monster player, but like his friend Lowell, a gifted with an impish sense of humor and very generous to fellow musicians. And the memory of those times when Richie invited me to sit in and play during rehearsals at Warner Bros., though 40 years ago, still remain clear and bright in my memories of that time. And the music Little Feat made remains as vivid and distinct . Great solo by Paul Barrere here along with Lowell. I played with the mix to brighten it up.
published: 26 Jan 2011
author: WestLAGuy
6:26
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978. Audio quality is higher than the existing vid that...
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: unrealmusicvideos
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978
Little Feat - Skin It Back - live 1978. Audio quality is higher than the existing vid thats here (imo)
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: unrealmusicvideos
4:03
Rock and Roll Doctor ~ Little Feat ~ Live 1976
7 June 1976 Geleen, Hollland...
published: 06 Dec 2009
author: WoogieTheCat
Rock and Roll Doctor ~ Little Feat ~ Live 1976
6:50
Little FEAT live at the Rams Head Tavern May 2, 2010
Little Feat is introducing its next release, Rams Head Revisited, with a series of free do...
published: 10 Jul 2010
author: Chris Lagemann
Little FEAT live at the Rams Head Tavern May 2, 2010
Little Feat is introducing its next release, Rams Head Revisited, with a series of free downloads. The downloads will appear periodically throughout the summer on the Little Feat website (www.LittleFeat.com ) in anticipation of the Fall release of the complete album. Photos by Chris Cafiero, Little FEAT Archivist.
published: 10 Jul 2010
author: Chris Lagemann
4:07
Little Feat - Oh, Atlanta from "Skin It Back - The Rockpalast Collection"
For more info - www.eagle-rock.com This Little Feat DVD continues our series of releases f...
published: 15 Sep 2009
author: eaglerocktv
Little Feat - Oh, Atlanta from "Skin It Back - The Rockpalast Collection"
For more info - www.eagle-rock.com This Little Feat DVD continues our series of releases from the archives of legendary German TV series Rockpalast. Filmed at the Grugahalle in Essen in 1977, just a few days before the recording of their legendary live album "Waiting For Columbus", this DVD captures the classic seventies Little Feat line-up led by the late Lowell George at the very peak of their powers. Also featured as a bonus is almost 30 minutes of never before seen alternative rehearsal versions including material that didn't make it into the final show. The setlist includes the classic tracks "Skin It Back", "Fat Man In The Bathtub", "Oh Atlanta", "Dixie Chicken", "Willin'", "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" and more. Bonus tracks include Rock n Roll Doctor which was dropped from the final set. Track Listing: 1) Skin It Back 2) Fat Man In The Bathtub 3) Oh, Atlanta 4) Day At The Dog Races 5) All That You Dream 6) Old Folks Boogie 7) Dixie Chicken 8) Tripe Face Boogie 9) Feats Dont Fail Me Now 10) Willin 11) Rocket In My Pocket Bonus Rehearsal Tracks: 1) Old Folks Boogie 2) Fat Man In The Bathtub 3) Rock n Roll Doctor 4) Skin It Back / Fat Man In The Bathtub 5) Oh, Atlanta 6) Willin
published: 15 Sep 2009
author: eaglerocktv
6:41
Honest Man - Little Feat - LIVE at Bonnaroo
Little Feat performs 'Honest Man' live at bonnaroo in 2008. 'Join the Band'...
published: 19 Aug 2008
author: 429Records
Honest Man - Little Feat - LIVE at Bonnaroo
Little Feat performs 'Honest Man' live at bonnaroo in 2008. 'Join the Band' hits stores Aug. 26 featuring friends like Dave Matthews, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Seger and Many More!
published: 19 Aug 2008
author: 429Records
9:21
Little Feat - Down On The Farm - 10.02.10
Little Feat - Lovelane Hoedown - Dedham, MA - Charity show for: Lovelane Special Needs Hor...
published: 31 Oct 2010
author: Chris Cafiero
Little Feat - Down On The Farm - 10.02.10
Little Feat - Lovelane Hoedown - Dedham, MA - Charity show for: Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program - 10.02.10 - Down On The Farm
published: 31 Oct 2010
author: Chris Cafiero
3:29
Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub
Little Feat Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. This number from their 1974 album &...
published: 02 Apr 2008
author: Plruk
Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub
Little Feat Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. This number from their 1974 album "Dixie Chicken" rated as their finest album.
published: 02 Apr 2008
author: Plruk
9:48
Little Feat-Let It Roll LIVE Dec.09-1998
Nice long jam...
published: 01 Aug 2006
author: PostToastie
Little Feat-Let It Roll LIVE Dec.09-1998
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LIGHT (A SHORT FILM)
**This is not a trailer **
I'm currently directing Josh Kerr's new signature film (current...
published: 03 May 2012
author: Matt Kleiner
LIGHT (A SHORT FILM)
**This is not a trailer **
I'm currently directing Josh Kerr's new signature film (currently untitled) due out early next year by RUSTY. We have been filming a lot and just before heading to Australia there was a little run of swell coinciding with great lighting and clean conditions. We shot four days around home during sunset. This short film is comprised of leftover clips during those four days.
LIGHT // The Natural Agent that Stimulates Sight
Presented by Rusty (www.Rusty.com)
Featuring Josh Kerr (www.Kerr-Azy.com)
Music by UNKLE feat Autolux
Film and Edit by Matt Kleiner (www.MattKleiner.com)
Additional footage and cover image by Damea Dorsey
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Butterflies feat. John Malkovich
I have this idea in my mind for a painting about butterflies. Blue and green and yellow bu...
published: 12 Feb 2011
author: Gentleman Scholar
Butterflies feat. John Malkovich
I have this idea in my mind for a painting about butterflies. Blue and green and yellow butterflies, tumbling out of my brain. I think it’s going to be good. I feel like I can almost touch them... like they’re right there for me to grab as they’re flying away... out of my skull and taking all those dark thoughts and little devils with them. Just fluttering away and leaving the good stuff behind. Butterflies. I’m going to get my canvas and my paints. I think I’m all better. I think I’m ready to leave.
Design/VFX - Gentleman Scholar
Creative Directors - Will Johnson & William Campbell
Producer - Tyler Locke
Executive Producer - Rob Sanborn
Editor - Josh Bodnar/The Whitehouse
Designers/Compositors - William Campbell, Will Johnson, Tommy Wooh, Daniel Blank, Paul Yeh, Heather Aquino, Claudia Yi Leon, Joseph Chan
Director - Sandro Miller
Music Composer - Matt Hutchinson
2:16
Signal To Noise
Time-lapse footage taken at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico; one of the larges...
published: 28 Jan 2012
author: Douglas Koke
Signal To Noise
Time-lapse footage taken at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico; one of the largest Radio Astronomy Observatories in the world.
As a learning exercise, and something to challenge myself, I wanted to try to combine two of my favorite things: motion-graphics and time-lapse photography.
I also wanted to see if I could stretch my editing techniques a little further.
The VLA really is a legitimately amazing thing to see in person. If you've ever considered making a visit, you should.
It's an awe-inspiring feat of human engineering, and the surroundings are gorgeous. Unbelievable skies in New Mexico. I caught some nasty weather, but it was still a great experience. I'm definitely going back!
Canon t3i / 600D (2 -rented a second)
Canon 10-22mm
Canon 24-105mm
Canon 70-200mm 2.8 (rented)
Sigma 30mm 1.4
GoPro HD Hero
Kessler Crane Pocket Dolly
Kessler elektraDrive Basic Controller
Completed in After Effects.
Grading with Magic Bullet.
Music: "What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It",
Telefon Tel Aviv
Many, many thanks to Rob Chiu, Tony Scott for their inspirational cutting style.
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The Story of Animation
What is "The Story of Animation"?
The Story of Animation is an educational film about the ...
published: 25 Feb 2012
author: David Tart
The Story of Animation
What is "The Story of Animation"?
The Story of Animation is an educational film about the process of animation. Although aimed primarily at potential animation clients, the film has something for everyone - animation students, animation artists, animation producers, and anyone who has ever wondered about how animation is made. Please see our website -
thestoryofanimation.com
The Story
The film follows the journey of "You" (the main character), a 3rd-tier technical writer who dreams of one day being a product designer. Working after hours, he creates a fantastic new product. When he presents his product to his employers, they inform him that it's up to him to create an advertising campaign for the product - an advertising campaign that must be animated. This poses a problem for "you" - he knows very little about animation, and is instantly filled with doubts, and thus his future hangs in the balance. This is where our friendly narrator steps in, to guide "you" through the process of making an animated film. Step by step, our hero's anxiety and doubts are put to rest, and in the end, he is triumphant!
The Production
The Story of Animation came about as a solution to a problem: The Animation Workshop, an animation school in Viborg, Denmark, had been graduating a great number of incredibly qualified animators, animation producers, and CG artists over the past 10 years. These artists had been forming small companies and beginning to produce fantastic work. The problem was not with the studios, or the quality of work they were producing, but rather with the clients: Most of them seemed to believe that animation was a simple, uncomplicated process, and were often disappointed to learn that there were very specific stages in the animation process that required their participation (and finances). It's almost as if they believed that creating animation was as simple as pitching an idea, and then sitting back while a couple of animators with pencil and paper goofed off, told jokes, and drank copious amounts of coffee until "wallah"! the animation was finished! Furthermore, they seemed to think that there would be no difference in cost between an animated film created in flash, 2D, stop motion, cut-out, motion graphics, or fully rendered Pixar-style 3D animation! At the time Morten Thorning, Director of the Animation Workshop approached me with the idea for the film, I was experiencing similar problems with a client in Copenhagen. In fact, I'd just spent several days creating a presentation about the benefits of using animation for an environmental messaging campaign. I was tasked with convincing a panel of scientists, sociologists, environmental activists, and architects how animation could be used to create positive, engaging, and entertaining content for environmental action messaging - no small feat!
The Team
After talking things over with Morten, it was decided that I would write and direct the project, which would be produced by Claus Toksvig of The Animation Hub, and animated at Tumblehead Studios. Tumblehead, led by Magnus Moller, did an amazing job on the film, assembling a team of character designers, animators, storyboard artists, and background artists (all graduates or current students of the Animation Workshop). Tumblehead saw the entire process through, from concept to post-production. The narrator was voiced by the awesome Richard Spiegel, and the sound design and score created by Mark Menza, whose many credits include sound designer and composer for "The Jimmy Neutron Show". Additional support was provided by Thomas Ahlmark (a veteran of many Animation Workshop productions).
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Little Feat - Willin'
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published: 05 Oct 2006
author: LesterTheNightfly2
Little Feat - Willin'
www.youtube.com to watch with better quality Lowell George's song for Dallas Alice live at Rockpalast 1977
published: 05 Oct 2006
author: LesterTheNightfly2
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Little Feat Live- 12-09-1998 Fat Man In The Bathtub
feat...
published: 27 Sep 2006
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Little Feat Live- 12-09-1998 Fat Man In The Bathtub
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Little Feat- Oh Atlanta- Live at The Rainbow Theatre 8/02/78
Little Feat performing at The Rainbow Theatre in London. Recordings from this concert were...
published: 05 Jan 2011
author: 1zappa
Little Feat- Oh Atlanta- Live at The Rainbow Theatre 8/02/78
Little Feat performing at The Rainbow Theatre in London. Recordings from this concert were featured on their album "Waiting for Columbus".
published: 05 Jan 2011
author: 1zappa
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| Little Feat | |
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 Performing at Stockholm JazzFest'09 in July 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Southern rock, blues rock, roots rock, R&B, funk rock, jazz funk, jazz rock, boogie rock, country rock, jam rock, Americana |
| Years active | 1969–1979, 1987–present |
| Labels | Rhino, Warner Bros., CMC International, Tower, Hot Tomato Imprint |
| Website | www.littlefeat.net |
| Members | |
| Bill Payne Paul Barrere Kenny Gradney Sam Clayton Fred Tackett Gabe Ford |
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| Past members | |
| Lowell George Richie Hayward Roy Estrada Craig Fuller Shaun Murphy |
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Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.
Although the band has undergone several changes in its lineup, the music remains an eclectic blend of rock and roll, blues, R&B, boogie, country, folk, gospel, soul, funk and jazz fusion influences.
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History[link]
Lowell George era (1969-1979)[link]
Lowell George met Bill Payne when George was a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Payne had auditioned for the Mothers, but had not joined. They formed Little Feat along with former Mothers' bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Richie Hayward from George's previous band, the Factory. The name of the band came from a comment made by Mothers' drummer Jimmy Carl Black about Lowell's "little feet." The spelling of "feat" was an homage to The Beatles.
There are three legends about the genesis of Little Feat. One has it that George showed Zappa his song "Willin'," and that Zappa fired him from the Mothers of Invention, because he felt that George was too talented to merely be a member of his band, and told him he ought to go away and form his own band. The second version has Zappa firing him for playing a 15 minute guitar solo—with his amplifier off. The third version says that Zappa fired him because "Willin'" contains drug references ("weed, whites and wine"). George often introduced the song as the reason he was asked to leave the band. On Oct. 18, 1975 at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester New York while introducing the song, George commented that he was asked to leave the band for "writing a song about dope.[1]
In any version, Zappa was instrumental in getting George and his new band a record contract. When "Willin'" was recorded for the Little Feat album, George had hurt his hand in an accident with a model airplane, so Ry Cooder sat in and played the song's slide part. Lowell's accident is referenced on the cover art of the band's 1996 album Under the Radar. "Willin'" was re-recorded (this time with Lowell playing) on Little Feat's second album Sailin' Shoes, which was also the first Little Feat album to include cover art by Neon Park, who had painted the cover for Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
The first two albums received nearly universal critical acclaim, and "Willin'" became a standard, subsequently popularized by its inclusion on Linda Ronstadt's album Heart Like a Wheel.
Lack of commercial success led, however, to the band splitting up, with Estrada leaving to join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. In 1972 Little Feat reformed, with bassist Kenny Gradney replacing Estrada. The band also added a second guitarist, Paul Barrere, who had known George since they attended Hollywood High School in California, and percussionist Sam Clayton. Both Barrere and Clayton added vocals on many songs, although all the band members provided backing vocals in various tunes.
This new lineup radically altered the band's sound, leaning toward New Orleans funk. The group went on to record Dixie Chicken (1973)—one of the band's most popular albums, which incorporated New Orleans musical influences and styles—as well as Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974), which was a studio-recorded attempt to capture some of the energy of their live shows. (The name of the latter album pays homage to the Fats Waller song.) An interesting recording in this period is the collaboration of Payne, Gradney, Barrere, Clayton and George (credited as George Lowell) with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton on the Stax album "Chico the Master", which is a strong showcase for the band's leanings toward funk and R&B.
The release of The Last Record Album in 1975 signaled another change in the Little Feat sound, with Barrere and Payne developing an interest in jazz-rock. Prior to the recording of The Last Record Album, drummer Richie Hayward had a motorcycle accident and the liner to the LP release of The Last Record Album was decorated with copies of his many hospital bills. Also present was evidence of a late change to the running order of tracks. The lyrics for Paul Barrere's song "Hi Roller" were printed on the sleeve, but scored out, and the words "maybe next time" scrawled over them. Sure enough, "Hi Roller" was the first track on the subsequent album Time Loves a Hero.
Lowell George continued to produce the albums, but his songwriting contribution diminished as the group moved into jazz fusion, a style in which he had little interest. In August 1977, Little Feat recorded a live album from gigs at the Rainbow Theatre in London and Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC. Waiting for Columbus is considered by many rock music critics to be one of the best live albums of all time, despite the fact that significant portions of George's vocals and slide work were in fact over-dubbed later in the studio.[2] It was released in 1978, by which time it had become apparent that Lowell George's interest in the band was waning, as was his health.
After Time Loves A Hero and before the Down on the Farm sessions, Little Feat were used as the backing band for Robert Palmer's album Pressure Drop, which featured his cover version of Lowell's song "Trouble."
George did some work on what would eventually become Down on the Farm but then declared that Little Feat had disbanded. In an interview with Bill Flanagan (for the book Written In My Soul) conducted eleven days before his death, George made it clear that he felt the demise of Little Feat was due to his having allowed the band to be run democratically, with the result that Payne and, to a lesser extent, Barrère, had a presence as songwriters and in production which was disproportionate to their abilities. George was particularly scathing about Payne's attempts at jazz/fusion, citing an instance when Payne jammed with Weather Report on a TV show and dropped "into one of his 'Day at the Dog Races'. I just got out of there as fast as I could. It was embarrassing". In the same interview, George stated that he planned to reunite Little Feat without Payne and Barrère.[3]
At this time Warner Brothers released George's only solo album Thanks, I'll Eat It Here for which he had signed a contract in 1975. The album was mostly a collection of cover versions of other people's songs that George had been working on as a side project for several years and, in his biography of Lowell George, Rock And Roll Doctor, Mark Brend states that George had hinted he only signed the solo contract in order to obtain funds to finance Little Feat (and Bill Flanagan states in Written In My Soul that George "didn't want his audience to assume a collection of other people's material marked the direction of Lowell George's solo career").
While touring in support of his solo album in June 1979, at the age of 34, George collapsed in his hotel room in Arlington, Virginia. An autopsy determined the cause of death was a heart attack, although it is considered likely that George's excess weight, (formerly chronic) drug usage, and the strain of touring contributed to his condition.
Lowell George was respected for his idiosyncratic genius, for crafting sophisticated melodies and lyrics; writing memorable songs, and for his high production standards. He is also remembered for his exuberant, unique slide style, which featured sustained, ringing legato lines.
The surviving members finished and released Down on the Farm before disbanding in 1979. A subsequent retrospective double album compilation of rare outtakes and live tracks, Hoy-Hoy!, was released in 1981. The album is an overview of the history and sound of Little Feat and includes a cover of the Hank Williams song "Lonesome Whistle".
Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton, Kenny Gradney and Richie Hayward performed several shows as Feats in 1981 and 1982.[4]
The Craig Fuller years (1987-1993)[link]
In 1986 Richie Hayward, Paul Barrere and Bill Payne were invited to play on Blue Slipper, the 1987 debut album by Helen Watson. They subsequently appeared on her second album The Weather Inside. The surviving former members of Little Feat then reformed in 1987 when Barrere, Clayton, Gradney, Hayward and Payne added songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Craig Fuller, formerly from the band Pure Prairie League and Fred Tackett on guitar, mandolin and trumpet. The band admired Fuller's previous work and were impressed when he toured with them in 1978 as part of the Fuller/Kaz band. They didn't require an audition, having played with him on tour, and thus, the new Little Feat lineup was formed. The initial release by the new lineup, Let It Roll, was a tremendous success and Fuller's presence proved to be a major factor. His strong vocals and songwriting abilities were showcased, co-writing 8 of the 10 songs and handling a large share of lead vocals. The first single, "Hate to Lose Your Lovin'", earned the band their first #1 hit on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. All Music Guide critic Stephen Erlewine stated " What's surprising about Let It Roll is not just that it works, but that it works smashingly." The LP garnered Feat a certified gold record status on February 14, 1989. On the heels of this success, previous Feat releases experienced a sudden surge in sales. The February 10, 1978 live release Waiting For Columbus went certified platinum on November 8, 1989. Dixie Chicken, originally released on January 25, 1973, went certified gold also on November 8, 1989. The band received more exposure than ever, including an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Concerts were booked nationally and Little Feat played enthusiastic, sold out shows. Barrere, Payne and company were pleased by the audience reaction: not only were they able to put over the Feat classics, but the new music proved to be artistically and commercially successful. While some Little Feat diehards initially had difficulty accepting the band without Lowell George, the success of Little Feat with Fuller could not be disputed. The band made a comeback that introduced a whole new generation to Little Feat and reignited their past.
The follow-up album Representing the Mambo, released in 1990 proved to be the group's last album for Warner Brothers who were uncomfortable with the album's more jazzy leanings. The third and final album by this line-up, Shake Me Up (1991) was released on Morgan Creek as was the soundtrack of the 1992 film White Sands, which contained one song by Little Feat called Quicksand and Lies but this label folded soon afterwards and Little Feat were moving from one label to another until the establishment of Hot Tomato Records in 2002. Fuller departed in 1993, stating that touring required too much time away from his family. He has since joined a reformed Pure Prairie League. In 2005 they released the critically acclaimed All in Good Time which heavily featured his songwriting, singing and acoustic guitar. He has performed about 40 shows yearly with them as well as occasional shows with Little Feat in addition to performing solo shows.
The Shaun Murphy years (1993-2009)[link]
Craig Fuller was replaced by Shaun Murphy in September 1993. Shaun had sung on all of the recent Little Feat albums and throughout 1993 she had toured as part of Bob Seger's band with Fred Tackett and Bill Payne.
Shaun's first album with the group was Ain't Had Enough Fun. As well as having material specifically written for her, for increasing fan draw attracted to her hard-edged powerhouse voice, further albums, Under the Radar and Chinese Work Songs saw Murphy become an integral part of the group sharing lead vocals and writing with Payne and Barrere. Her rendition of Bob Dylan's work, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh", was first recorded in studio on Chinese Work Songs, and became a favorite in live appearances with Murphy as lead singer prior to her departure in 2009. After recording five studio albums and performing over 1,400 concerts with the band, Murphy's position was made redundant, and the group pared down to a six-piece collective entity. Shaun would subsequently form The Shaun Murphy Band, with a specific blues-oriented niche. As of May 2011, Shaun had released two albums, returned to take her place with the Silver Bullet Band in the 2011 tour of Bob Seger, in addition to many scheduled live appearances with The Shaun Murphy Band, one of which to release a third album, and DVD, live in Detroit.
Hayward health and death[link]
In August 2009, Richie Hayward announced that he had recently been diagnosed with a severe liver disease and would not be at work indefinitely.[5] A benefit concert was organised [6] and a website created where fans unable to attend could donate towards his treatment costs. Little Feat announced that their drum technician Gabe Ford would take his place.
Hayward married and was living on Vancouver Island B.C., with his liver cancer in remission while waiting on a liver transplant. Sunday July 11, 2010 Little Feat played at Vancouver Island Music Fest, and Hayward was slated to play just a couple of tunes, but once he sat behind his kit, he finished out the night. Hayward had intended to return to the band in the event of recovery but he died on August 12, 2010 from pneumonia and complications from lung disease.
Legacy - today and tomorrow[link]
Some of the prominent musicians and bands to play and record the music of Little Feat include Phish, The Black Crowes, The Byrds, The Bridge, Garth Brooks, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Taylor Hicks, Ron Holloway, Keisuke Kuwata, Nicolette Larson, Nazareth, Robert Palmer, The Radiators, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, John Sebastian, Richard Shindell, Carly Simon, Mick Taylor, Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Sam Bush, Coco Montoya, Vince Herman, Inara George, Stephen Bruton, Widespread Panic and Jimmy Buffett .
In 2008, Little Feat reached their 20th anniversary as a once-again active band, and with just one line up change since 1988. Jimmy Buffett has been an enthusiastic booster of the band for many years and his private record label was partnered with Feat's Hot Tomato Records to produce the CD Join the Band. Released in mid-August 2008, the album features collaborations with Buffett, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Bob Seger, Béla Fleck, Brooks and Dunn, Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), Vince Gill, Mike Gordon (Phish), and Inara George.
On October 31, 2010, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, the band Phish covered Little Feat's album, Waiting for Columbus, for their annual Halloween show. As a result of this concert and the distribution of its recording, Waiting For Columbusgained recognition from a wider audience among younger listeners.
In 2012, Little Feat, announced the release of their first album of new material in nine years, Rooster Rag.
Personnel[link]
| Little Feat (1969–72) |
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| Little Feat (1972–79) |
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| Little Feat (1987–93) |
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| Little Feat (1993-Jan. 2009) |
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| Little Feat (Jan. 2009-Aug. 2009) |
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| Little Feat (Aug. 2009–present) |
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Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- Little Feat (1971)
- Sailin' Shoes (1972)
- Dixie Chicken (1973)
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974)
- The Last Record Album (1975)
- Time Loves A Hero (1977)
- Down on the Farm (1979) [completed after George's death]
- Let It Roll (1988)
- Representing the Mambo (1990)
- Shake Me Up (1991)
- Ain't Had Enough Fun (1995)
- Under the Radar (1998)
- Chinese Work Songs (2000)
- Kickin' It at the Barn (2003)
- Join the Band (2008)
- Rooster Rag (2012)
Live albums[link]
- Waiting for Columbus (1978)
- Live From Neon Park (1996)
- Extended Versions (2000)
- Late Night Truck Stop (2001)
- Waiting for Columbus (2002) [re-release, doubled in size]
- Live at the Rams Head (2002)
- Down Upon the Suwannee River (2003) [a two-disc set]
- Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003 (2004)
- Barnstormin' Live Volume One (2005)
- Barnstormin' Live Volume Two (2005)
- Rocky Mountain Jam (2007)
- Rams Head Revisited (2010)
Compilation albums[link]
- Hoy-Hoy! (1981) [collection of live recordings]
- As Time Goes By: The Very Best of Little Feat (1994) [Import to US - first, and only, Feat album available on CD for many years]
- Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat (2000) [4 CD collection & outtakes][boxed set]
- Ripe Tomatos - Volume One (2002)
- Raw Tomatos - Volume One (2002)
- The Essentials (2005) [Import to US]
- Barnstormin' Live Volumes One + Two (2006) [boxed set]
- The Best of Little Feat (2006)
Videos[link]
- Rockpalast Live (2000) [DVD] - Eleven-song performance for German live music television show "Rockpalast" that originally aired in July 1977, plus one bonus live track from Pinkpop Festival, Geleen, Holland, June 7, 1976
- High Wire Act Live In St. Louis 2003 (2004 live) [DVD]
- Little Feat & Friends in Jamaica - Burgers & Paradise (2006 live) [2 DVDs] - Little Feat & Friends in Jamaica 2005
- Little Feat: Skin It Back - The Rockpalast Collection (2009) [DVD] - At the Grugahalle in Essen in 1977, just before the recording album "Waiting For Columbus." Includes almost 30 minutes of alternative rehearsal versions including material that did not make it into the final show.
Singles[link]
- Hate to Lose Your Lovin' (#1 rock 1988)
- Texas Twister (#1 rock 1990)
- Let It Roll (#3 rock 1988)
- One Clear Moment (#10 rock 1989)
- Shake Me Up (#14 rock 1991)
- Long Time Till I Get Over You (#19 rock 1988)
- Woman In Love (#21 rock 1988)
- Rad Gumbo (#23 rock 1989)
- Rock & Roll Doctor (#34 rock 1981)
Annual band excursion to Jamaica[link]
Since 2003 Little Feat has organised an annual fans' trip to Jamaica, where the full band plays several shows, often with guests, and various members perform solo and duo sets,
| Year | Dates | Solo/Duo shows |
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| 1st Annual Featfan Excursion | Two band shows:
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| 2nd Annual Featfan Excursion | Two band shows:
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| 3rd Annual Featfan Excursion | Two band shows:
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| 4th Annual Featfan Excursion | Five band shows:
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| 5th Annual Featfan Excursion | Four band shows:
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| 6th Annual Featfan Excursion | Two band shows:
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References[link]
- ^ Little Feat Live at Auditorium Theatre on 1975-10-18 (October 18, 1975) |url=http://www.archive.org/details/lf1975-10-18.shnf
- ^ Liner notes to 2002 CD re-release of Waiting for Columbus.
- ^ 'Written In My Soul' by Bill Flanagan ISBN 0.7119.2224.1 p.353-63
- ^ Steve Keiss. "Featbase Setlists". Featbase.net. http://www.featbase.net/sidesetlists.asp?name=feats. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ^ "News". Little Feat. http://www.littlefeat.net/index.php?page=news&n_id=599. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ^ "Pacific Disturbance". Pacific Disturbance. http://www.pacificdisturbance.com. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Little Feat collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
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 Payne with Little Feat at a benefit for Richie Hayward, Burlington, Vermont January 14, 2010 |
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| Birth name | William Payne |
| Born | (1949-03-12) March 12, 1949 (age 63) Waco, Texas United States |
| Genres | Rock and roll, blues, Southern rock, Funk |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, record producer. pianist |
| Instruments | Vocals, Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizers |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | Hot Tomato Records |
| Associated acts | Little Feat, Phil Lesh and Friends |
| Website | Bill Payne website |
Bill Payne (born March 12, 1949, Waco, Texas, USA) co-founded, with Lowell George, the American rock band Little Feat.[1] He is considered by many other piano rock musicians, including Elton John,[2] to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists. In addition to his trademark barrelhouse blues piano, he is noted for his work on other keyboard instruments, particularly the Hammond B3 organ. Payne is also an accomplished songwriter whose credits include co-writing, with Lowell George, the Little Feat classic, "Oh, Atlanta."
Payne has worked and recorded with other musicians including J. J. Cale, Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Toto, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Helen Watson, Stevie Nicks, Shocking Edison, and Stephen Bruton. He was a guest performer on Bonnie Raitt's album Sweet Forgiveness in 1977, and wrote its track, "Takin' My Time."
Paul Barrere and Bill Payne played several live concerts with Phil Lesh and Friends, from 10/21/99 to 10/31/99, on 3/10/00, and from 6/21/00 to 7/30/00.
Following the death of Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward on August 12, 2010, Payne is the only member of the group remaining from the original four-piece line-up.
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Payne was a pioneer in the development of online music communities. In the early 1990s, he contacted his fan base and enlisted the help of friend Jay Herbst to develop the Little Feat Grass-roots Movement. This model went on to be a template for many bands in the creation of their Street Teams, which enlist the help of fans for purposes of music and concert promotion. This method has proven to be an effective vehicle for bringing bands and fans closer together, and forging friendships between them.
Songwriting (selected)[link]
Payne wrote or co-wrote many of the songs in Little Feat's catalogue, including the following:
- "Snakes on Everything"
- "Strawberry Flats"
- "Truck-Stop Girl"
- "Brides of Jesus"
- "Tripe Face Boogie"
- "Got No Shadow"
- "Oh, Atlanta"
- "Time Loves a Hero"
- "Gringo"
Discography[link]
Solo[link]
- Cielo Norte (2005)
References[link]
- ^ Skelly, Richard. "Biography: Bill Payne". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p112956/biography. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ "Interview: Little Feat's Bill Payne". http://www.wharf.co.uk/2009/04/interview-little-feats-bill-pa.html. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
External links[link]
- Bill Payne website
- Bill Payne Discography
- Little Feat website
- Something Wild (1966)
- Certain Fury O.S.T. (1985)
- Shocking Edison Website
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 Emmylou Harris at the Greenbelt Harvest Picnic, 2011 |
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| Born | (1947-04-02) April 2, 1947 (age 65) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk, country rock, country, bluegrass, rock, pop, alt-country |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Voice, guitar |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Labels | Jubilee, Reprise, Warner Bros., Elektra, Asylum, Rhino, Nonesuch |
| Associated acts | Ryan Adams The Band Bright Eyes James Burton Beth Neilsen Chapman Earl Thomas Conley Elvis Costello Rodney Crowell Iris Dement John Denver Dixie Chicks Bob Dylan Steve Earle Vern Gosdin Patty Griffin Arlo Guthrie Mark Knopfler Albert Lee Little Feat Dave Matthews Kate and Anna McGarrigle Willie Nelson Juice Newton Roy Orbison Gram Parsons Dolly Parton John Prine Linda Ronstadt Ricky Skaggs Bruce Springsteen Don Williams Lucinda Williams Neil Young Warren Zevon |
| Website | www.emmylouharris.com |
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released many chart-topping albums and singles over the course of her career, and has won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards.
In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Gram Parsons, The Band, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Mark Knopfler, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, and Neil Young.
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Biography[link]
Early years[link]
Emmylou Harris is the daughter of a career military family, her father, Walter Harris, was a military officer and her mother, Eugenia was a wartime military wife. Her father, a member of the Marine Corps, was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. In high school she also won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. Leaving college to pursue her musical aspirations, she moved to New York, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in the Maryland suburbs on the edge of Washington, D.C.[1]
With Gram Parsons[link]
Harris soon returned to performing as part of a trio with Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera. One night in 1971, members of the country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers happened to be in the audience. Former Byrds member Chris Hillman, who had taken over the band after the departure of its founder Gram Parsons, was so impressed by Harris that he briefly considered asking her to join the band. Instead, Hillman ended up recommending her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to work with on his first solo album, GP. Harris toured as a member of Parsons' band, The Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the couple shone during vocal harmonies and duets. Harris was quite pleased, and invested a lot emotionally in their relationship. Later that year, Parsons and Harris worked on a studio album, Grievous Angel. Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 19, 1973, from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Parsons's Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974, and three more tracks from his last sessions with Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights, in 1976. There was one more album of recorded material from that period of time that was packaged with the name, Live 1973, but was not released until 1982.
The working relationship between Harris and Parsons is of great importance in country and country-rock music history. Parsons offered Harris a study in true country music, introducing her to artists like The Louvin Brothers, and provided her with a musical identity; Harris's harmony and duet vocals, on the other hand, were lauded by those who heard them, and helped inspire Parsons' performances. His death left her devastated at an emotional and musical crossroads. She eventually carried on with her own version of Parsons' musical vision, and was instrumental in bringing attention to his achievements. Harris's earliest signature song, and arguably her most personal one, "Boulder to Birmingham", written shortly after Gram's death, showed the depth of her shock and pain at losing Parsons. It was, according to her best friend Linda Ronstadt, the beginning of a "lifetime effort to process what had happened", and was just the first of many songs written and/or performed by Harris about her life with (and without) Parsons.
- I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
- I would hold my life in his saving grace.
- I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
- If I thought I could see, I could see your face.
- —"Boulder to Birmingham"
- lyrics by Emmylou Harris
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Warner Brothers A&R representative Mary Martin introduced Harris to Canadian producer Brian Ahern, who produced her major label debut album, Pieces of the Sky, released in 1975 on Reprise Records. The album was surprisingly eclectic, especially by Nashville standards, including cover versions of The Beatles' "For No One", Merle Haggard's "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" and The Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love". It also featured "Bluebird Wine", a composition by young Texas songwriter Rodney Crowell, who was the first in a long line of songwriters whose talents Harris has championed. The record was one of the most expensive country records produced at the time, featuring the talents of James Burton, Glen Hardin, Ron Tutt, Ray Pohlman, and Bill Payne, as well as two tracks ("Before Believing" and "Queen of the Silver Dollar") that were cut with the Angel Band. Two singles were released: "Too Far Gone", which initially charted at #73 (a 1979 reissue hit #13), and Harris's first big hit, "If I Could Only Win Your Love", a duet with Herb Pedersen (later a founding member of The Desert Rose Band), which peaked at #4.
Executives of Warner Bros. Records (Reprise Records's parent company) told Harris they would agree to record her if she would "get a hot band". Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had played with Elvis Presley as well as Parsons. Burton was a renowned guitarist, starting in Ricky Nelson's band in the 1950s, and Hardin had been a member of The Crickets. Other Hot Band members were drummer John Ware, pedal steel guitarist Hank DeVito, and bassist Emory Gordy, Jr., with whom Harris had worked while performing with Parsons. Singer-songwriter Crowell was enlisted as a rhythm guitarist and duet partner.[2] Harris's first tour schedule originally dovetailed around Presley's, owing to Burton and Hardin's continuing commitments to Presley's band. The Hot Band lived up to its name, with most of the members moving on with fresh talent replacing them as they continued on to solo careers of their own.
Elite Hotel, released in December 1975, established that the buzz created by Pieces of the Sky was well-founded. Unusual for country albums at the time, which largely revolved around a hit single, Harris's albums borrowed their approach from the album-oriented rock market. In terms of quality and artistic merit, tracks like "Sin City", "Wheels", and "Till I Gain Control Again", which weren't singles, easily stood against tracks like "Together Again", "Sweet Dreams", and "One of These Days", which were. While Elite Hotel was a #1 country album, the album did sufficiently well as a crossover success with the rock audience. Harris appealed to those who normally disapproved of the country market's pull toward crossover pop singles ("Together Again" and "Sweet Dreams" both topped the country charts). Elite Hotel won a Grammy in 1976 for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
Harris' reputation for guest work continued. Aside from contributing to albums by Linda Ronstadt, Guy Clark and Neil Young, Harris was tapped by Bob Dylan to perform on his Desire album, but entirely uncredited. Harris also filmed one of the studio sequences, owing to her touring schedule, in The Band's The Last Waltz, singing "Evangeline".
Burton left the Hot Band in 1976, choosing to remain with Elvis Presley's band, and was replaced by English guitarist Albert Lee. Harris's commercial apex was Luxury Liner, released in 1977, which remains one of her definitive records. On Luxury Liner, Harris's mix of songs from Chuck Berry ("(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie"), Gram Parsons (the title track and "She"), The Carter Family ("Hello Stranger") and Kitty Wells ("Making Believe") illustrate a continuity and artistic merit to country music often overlooked at the time. Despite Top Ten singles with "C'est La Vie" and "Making Believe", the album's best known track is the first recorded cover of Townes Van Zandt's classic "Pancho & Lefty", which would be a #1 hit for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1983. At the end of 1977, Crowell left the Hot Band to pursue a solo career; his replacement was bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and singer Ricky Skaggs.
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town signaled a slight change of direction from Harris's previous three albums. Rather than mixing classic and contemporary, the album is made up largely of recently written songs, though from a wide variety of writers. "Two More Bottles of Wine", written by Delbert McClinton, became Harris's third #1 single, "To Daddy", written by Dolly Parton, went to #3, and a third single, "Easy From Now On", went Top Twenty. The album included two songs apiece from Crowell ("I Ain't Living Long Like This" and "Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight") and songwriter Jesse Winchester ("Defying Gravity" and "My Songbird"), and Utah Phillips' "Green Rolling Hills".
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In 1977 (January), Harris married Brian Ahern.[3] Their (Harris' second) daughter, Meghann, was born in 1979. During this time, Harris cut three studio albums that reflected a shift toward traditional country (the industry, on the other hand, was about to embrace Urban Cowboy). The first key to the change in direction was her Grammy Award-winning 1979 album Blue Kentucky Girl. Apart from a cover of The Drifters' "Save The Last Dance For Me", the album was largely made up of classic-styled country material in the vein of Loretta Lynn and Kitty Wells. One of her best-loved albums, the record includes songs ranging from The Louvin Brothers' "Everytime You Leave" to Willie Nelson's "Sister's Coming Home" to Gram Parson's signature "Hickory Wind". Wesley Rose took special interest in Harris' recording of "Beneath Still Waters", which became a #1 smash.
A Christmas album, Light of the Stable, was released in 1979; its title track featured backing vocals by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Neil Young, all three of whom Harris had been working with sporadically since the mid-1970s, and would continue to collaborate with through the 2000s. (Harris, Parton and Ronstadt began working on a planned trio album during this time, though it would remain unfinished for nearly a decade; a few of the tracks recorded for the project surfaced on the women's respective solo albums in the interim.) The album is largely acoustic, featuring readings of traditional fare such as "Silent Night", "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "The First Noel".
In the 1980s, Harris pursued country music's history even further with the bluegrass-oriented recording of Roses in the Snow, featuring Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Albert Lee, Emory Gordy Jr. and Jerry Douglas. Harris's versions of the traditional "Wayfaring Stranger" and Paul Simon's "The Boxer" were strong singles.
In 1980, Harris recorded "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" with Roy Orbison. The duet was a Top 10 hit on both the Country and Adult Contemporary charts. They would win the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. She would also be featured on Paul Kennerley's concept album The Legend of Jesse James, which also featured Levon Helm of The Band and Johnny Cash.
Pop-chart success, songwriting[link]
In 1981, Harris reached the Top 40 on the Billboard pop chart with a cover of "Mister Sandman"—again Top 10 Country as well as Adult Contemporary—from her Evangeline album. (The album version of the song was a track from the ill-fated Trio sessions with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, but neither Parton's nor Ronstadt's record companies would allow their artists' vocals to be used on the single, so Harris re-recorded the song, singing all three parts.)
Harris moved to Nashville in 1982. White Shoes in 1983 included an eclectic pairing of the rockish reading of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" with a remake of the Donna Summer hit "On the Radio", as well as tracks from a diverse group of songwriters such as Hot Band member Crowell, Sandy Denny and T-Bone Burnett and was her last album produced by Brian Ahern until All I Intended to Be in 2008.
Harris's major-label releases thus far had included few self-penned songs, but in 1985 her songwriting skills were much in evidence with the release of a concept album The Ballad of Sally Rose, for which she co-wrote all of the songs. The album was semi-autobiographical in theme, based loosely on her relationship with Parsons. Harris described it as a "country opera", and a "huge commercial disaster".[4] Her co-writer and producer on the album was English songwriter and musician Paul Kennerley, writer of the hit singles "Born to Run" (on Harris's 1981 Cimarron album) and "In My Dreams" (on White Shoes). Kennerley also produced her next album, Thirteen. They were married in 1985 and divorced in 1993.
In 1987, nearly a full decade after they'd first attempted to do so, Harris teamed up with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt for their long-promised and much-anticipated Trio disc. The album was the biggest commercial success of Harris's career, spending five weeks at #1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart (also quickly reaching the Top 10 on the Pop Albums chart), sold several million copies and produced four Top 10 Country hits, including "To Know Him Is To Love Him", which hit #1. The disc was nominated for the coveted Album Of The Year Grammy award (given to U2 that year for The Joshua Tree) and the three women won the statuette for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal; the album's Linda Thompson-penned track "Telling Me Lies" reached #3 Country, #25 Adult Contemporary, and was also nominated for a Grammy as 1987's Best Country Song.
Harris also found time in 1987 to release a solo album, Angel Band, featuring traditional gospel songs, on which she worked with, among others, rising country star Vince Gill.
In 1989, she recorded two songs with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume II. In a snippet of studio chatter included on one of the tracks, she talked during the recording session about her beginnings and how music had changed:
Years ago I had the experience of sitting around in a living room with a bunch of people and singing and playing, and it was like a spiritual experience, it was wonderful. And I decided then that was what I was going to do with my life was play music, do music. In the making of records, I think over the years we've all gotten a little too technical, a little too hung up on getting things perfect. We've lost the living room. The living room has gone out of the music, but today I feel like we got it back.
Around 1991, she dissolved The Hot Band and formed a new band of acoustic musicians—Sam Bush on fiddle, mandolin and vocals, Roy Huskey, Jr. on bass and vocals, Larry Atamanuik on drums, Al Perkins on banjo, guitar, Dobro guitar and vocals, and Jon Randall on guitar, mandolin and vocals—which she named The Nash Ramblers. They recorded a Grammy Award-winning live album in 1992 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, which led to the $8 million restoration of the facility into a premium concert and event venue. It was her last album with Reprise Records.
New directions[link]
By the 1990s, Harris started receiving less airplay as mainstream country stations began shifting their focus to the youth-oriented "new country" format. Harris's albums Bluebird and Brand New Dance (1989 and 1990, respectively) received ample critical acclaim and sold reasonably well, yet her chart success was on the wane. 1993's Cowgirl's Prayer—the first album since her switch to Elektra Records—was critically praised but received very little airplay,[5] and its lead single, "High Powered Love" charted very low, peaking at #63, prompting her to shift her career in a new direction.
In 1995, Harris released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the decade, Wrecking Ball, produced by Daniel Lanois, best known for his work with U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan. An experimental album for Harris, the record included Harris's rendition of the Neil Young-penned title track (Young himself provided guest vocals on two of the album's songs), Steve Earle's "Goodbye", Julie Miller's "All My Tears", Jimi Hendrix's "May This Be Love", Kate and Anna McGarrigle's "Goin' Back to Harlan" and Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl". U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. showed up to play drums for the project. The album received virtually no country airplay whatsoever, but did bring Harris to the attention of alternative rock listeners, many of whom had never listened to her music before.
Harris then took her Wrecking Ball material on the road, releasing the live Spyboy in 1998, backed with a power trio comprising Nashville producer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Miller and New Orleans musicians, drummer Brady Blade and bassist-vocalist-percussionist Daryl Johnson. In addition to performing songs from Wrecking Ball, the album updated many of Harris's career hits, including "Boulder to Birmingham".
Also in 1998, she appeared prominently on Willie Nelson's moody, instrumentally sparse Teatro album, produced by Wrecking Ball producer Lanois.[6]
During the summer of 1997 and 1998, Harris joined Sarah McLachlan's all-woman musical touring festival, the Lilith Fair, where new artists like Patty Griffin could share new experiences and ideas with seasoned musicians like Harris and Bonnie Raitt.
In January 1999, Harris released Trio 2 with Parton and Ronstadt. Much of the album had actually been recorded in 1994, but remained unreleased for nearly five years because of record label and personnel disputes, conflicting schedules, and career priorities of the three artists. Trio 2 was much more contemporary-sounding than its predecessor and was certified Gold. It included their version of Neil Young's classic "After The Gold Rush", which became a popular music video and won another Grammy—this one for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Harris and Ronstadt then released a duet album, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, later the same year. The two superstars toured together during the fall months in support of the disc. Both albums made the Top 10 of Billboard's Country Albums chart and did well on the pop side as well.
Also in 1999, Harris paid tribute to her former singing partner Gram Parsons by co-executive producing Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, an album that gathered together more than a dozen artists. Harris performed duets with Beck, Sheryl Crow and The Pretenders on this album's tracks.
In 2000, Harris released her solo follow-up to Wrecking Ball, Red Dirt Girl, produced by Lanois protégé Malcolm Burn. For the first time since The Ballad of Sally Rose, the album contained a number of Harris's own compositions. Like Wrecking Ball, the album's sound leaned more toward alternative rock than country. Nevertheless it reached #5 on Billboard's Country Albums chart as well as a healthy #54 on the pop side. It also won Harris another of her 12 Grammy awards, in the category of Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Harris also accompanied on alternative country singer Ryan Adams' solo debut Heartbreaker and on Tracy Chapman's fifth album Telling Stories.
Also in 2000, Harris joined an all-star group of traditional country, folk and blues artists for the T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The soundtrack won multiple CMA, ACM and Grammy awards. A documentary/concert film, Down from the Mountain, featured the artists performing music from the film and other songs at the Ryman Auditorium. Harris and many of the same artists took their show on the road for the Down from the Mountain Tour in 2002. In 2003, Harris supplied the finishing touches in harmonizing with the Dixie Chicks on a song they were recording in the studio, "Godspeed".
Recent work[link]
Harris released Stumble into Grace, her follow-up to Red Dirt Girl, in 2003. Like its predecessor, it contained mostly self-penned material. In 2004, Harris led the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue tour with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin. They performed singly and together and swapped instruments.
On September 9, 2005, Harris participated in "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast", a series of concerts simulcast by most American television stations to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. She performed with Beth Neilsen Chapman and the Dixie Chicks, harmonizing on Patty Griffin's song, "Mary".
In 2005, Harris worked with Conor Oberst on Bright Eyes' release, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, performing backup vocals on three tracks. In July, she joined Elvis Costello on several dates of his US tour, performing alongside Costello and his band on several numbers each night. Harris and Costello recorded a version of Costello's song, "The Scarlet Tide", from the soundtrack of the movie Cold Mountain. July also saw the release of The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways, a single-disc retrospective of Harris's career, on the Rhino Entertainment label. This same year, Harris appeared as a guest vocalist on Neil Young's widely acclaimed Prairie Wind. She also appeared in the Jonathan Demme documentary-concert film Neil Young: Heart of Gold, released in 2006.
All the Roadrunning, an album of collaborations with former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, was released in April 2006 and supported by a tour of Europe and the US. The album was a commercial success, reaching #8 in the UK and #17 in the US. Selections recorded during the All the Roadrunning tour performance at the Gibson Amphitheatre were released as a CD/DVD package titled Real Live Roadrunning in November 2006. In addition to several of the compositions that Harris and Knopfler recorded together in the studio, Real Live Roadrunning features solo hits from both members of the duo, as well as a few classic tracks from Knopfler's days with Dire Straits.
Harris is featured on A Tribute To Joni Mitchell, released on April 24, 2007. Harris covered the song "The Magdalene Laundries" (originally on Mitchell's 1994 album, Turbulent Indigo). She sang "Another Pot O' Tea" with Anne Murray on Murray's album Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends, released November 13, 2007, in Canada and January 15, 2008, in the U.S.
Harris wrote a song called "In Rodanthe" for the 2008 film Nights In Rodanthe.
A solo album, All I Intended to Be, was released on June 10, 2008, to critical acclaim. Contributors include Buddy Miller, the McGarrigle sisters, Vince Gill, Phil Madeira, and Dolly Parton. She toured with an ensemble she dubbed the Red Dirt Boys, featuring Phil Madeira on accordion, guitar, and keyboards, Colin Linden on guitar and banjo, Rickie Simpkins on mandolin and fiddle, Chris Donohue on bass, and Bryan Owings on drums.[7] It did not include Miller, who was touring with Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett at the time. In 2009, Harris toured with Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Miller as "Three Girls and Their Buddy". Madeira, Simpkins, and Donohue performed with her in late 2008, and in 2009, appearing on "A Prairie Home Companion" and at MerleFest and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. In September 2009, Owings rejoined the Red Dirt Boys with Miller for the remainder of 2009.
In April 2009 Harris became a grandmother. Her daughter gave birth to a daughter, Prudence.[8]
In 2010, Harris regrouped with the latest version of the Red Dirt Boys—Madeira, Owings, Donohue, and Simpkins—for Lilith Fair summer dates and a scheduled US autumn tour.
According to an interview with Bonnie Tyler by Digital Spy, Emmylou Harris will be teaming up with her on Tyler's upcoming album. Harris will do backing vocals on a song, written and produced by Wayne Warner. A new solo album, Hard Bargain, was released on the Nonesuch label on April 26, 2011.
PBS host Tavis Smiley interviewed Harris in a program that aired on April 20, 2011. In the interview Harris spoke of being a straight-A student in high school, which led her to being selected as valedictorian, and recounted learning to play guitar by memorizing three chords.[citation needed]
The 2012 single "Emmylou" by Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit on their album The Lion's Roar is, in part, a tribute to Harris, with its lyrics referring to her relationship to Gram Parsons.
Activism[link]
In 1997 and 1998, Harris performed in Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair, promoting feminism in music. Since 1999, Harris has been organizing an annual benefit tour called Concerts for a Landmine Free World. All proceeds from the tours support the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's (VVAF) efforts to assist innocent victims of conflicts around the world. The tour also benefits the VVAF's work to raise America's awareness of the global landmine problem. Artists that have joined Harris on the road for these dates include Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Patty Griffin, Nanci Griffith, Willie Nelson, and Lucinda Williams. Harris is a supporter of animal rights and an active member of PETA.[9] She founded, and in her spare time assists at, an animal shelter in Nashville.[10]
She became a member of the newly formed Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.[11][12]
Awards and other honors[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
2005 Best Female Country Vocal Performance ("The Connection")
2001 Album of the Year (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
2000 Best Contemporary Folk Album (Red Dirt Girl)
1999 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("After The Gold Rush", with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("Same Old Train", with Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt)
1995 Best Contemporary Folk Album (Wrecking Ball)
1992 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers At the Ryman, as Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers)
1987 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Trio, with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
1984 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female ("In My Dreams")
1980 Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("That Lovin' You Feelin' Again", with Roy Orbison)
1979 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female (Blue Kentucky Girl)
1976 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female (Elite Hotel)[13]
Country Music Association Awards[link]
2001 Album of the Year (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
1980 Female Vocalist Of The Year
1988 Vocal Event of the Year (Trio, with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)[14]
Other honors[link]
- VH1's 100 Most Influential Women in Rock and Roll (1998) - Number 22 out of 100
- Billboard's Century Award recipient (1999)[15] - inducted by Sarah McLachlan
- CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music - #5 ranking (2002)
- Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on February 12, 2008[16]
- Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.
- Awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in 2009.[17]
Discography[link]
Main article: Emmylou Harris discography
Collaborations and other appearances[link]
Main article: Emmylou Harris appearances
References[link]
- ^ "Charlie Rose Show" June 25, 2008
- ^ The Hot Band, Emmylou.net. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- ^ Emmylou ... and Brian ... make beautiful music together.
- ^ Keast, James (June 2008). "Questionnaire: Emmylou Harris". Exclaim.ca. http://exclaim.ca/Features/Questionnaire/emmylou_harris. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ Cromelin, Richard (11 April 1996). "Q & A with EMMYLOU HARRIS: Singing With a Voice That's Always True to Her Heart". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-11/entertainment/ca-57283_1_emmylou-harris. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ Cromelin, Richard (5 September 1998). "Willie Nelson, "Teatro," Island.". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/05/entertainment/ca-19591. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ Varga, George (31 July 2008). "'I'm a storyteller'". The San Diego Union-Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080731/news_1w31emmylou.html. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ "All For The Hall California benefit concert review", Nashville Gab, http://www.nashvillegab.com/2009/10/all-for-the-hall-california-benefit-concert-review.html
- ^ Kentucky Fried Cruelty :: Celebrity Support :: Emmylou Harris
- ^ Bonaparte's Retreat
- ^ New humanities commission has Tennessee influence, BestCountrySingers.com
- ^ AMERICAN ACADEMY, Commission on the Humanities & Social Sciences - Commission Members
- ^ Grammy Award Winners at www.grammy.com, retrieved 21 March 2008/
- ^ Artist Detail Emmylou Harris www.cmaawards.com. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
- ^ Billboard.com: Backstreet Boys, Spears Top 1999 Billboard Awards
- ^ Morris, Edward (28 April 2008) CMT News: Emmylou Harris, Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman Enter Country Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 July 2008.
- ^ Edwards, Margot (7 October 2009). "Emmylou Harris Receives Berklee Honorary Doctorate". Berklee News. http://www.berklee.edu/news/1105/emmylou-harris-receives-berklee-honorary-doctora. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
Sources[link]
- In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN 0-679-41567-X
- Emmylou Harris: Angel in Disguise, Jim Brown, Fox Music Books, 2004. ISBN 1-894997-03-4
- Fong-Torres, Ben. (1998). "Emmylou Harris". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 230.
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- Emmylou Harris Comprehensive former official site
- Emmylou Harris at Allmusic
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Emmylou Harris Questionnaire (June 2008)
- Pitchfork article
- Gibson interview
- Interview
- Emmylou Harris on Charlie Rose
- Emmylou Harris at the Internet Movie Database
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| Birth name | Bonnie Lynn Raitt |
| Born | (1949-11-08) November 8, 1949 (age 62) Burbank, California, United States |
| Genres | Blues, country, folk-rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician, political activist, philanthropist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, slide guitar |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Labels | Warner, Capitol |
| Website | bonnieraitt.com |
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Raitt, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, pianist Marjorie Haydock, began playing guitar at an early age, something few of her high school female friends did. Later she would become famous for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. "I had played a little at school and at camp", she later recalled in a July 2002 interview. The camp Raitt refers to is Camp Regis-Applejack, located in the heart of the Adirondacks.
Pre-recording career[link]
After graduating from Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1967 Raitt entered Harvard's Radcliffe College as a freshman, majoring in African Studies. "My plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism", Raitt recalled. "I wanted to help undo the damage that Western colonialism had done to native cultures around the world. Cambridge was a hotbed of this kind of thinking, and I was thrilled."
One day, Raitt was told by a friend that blues promoter Dick Waterman was giving an interview at WHRB, Harvard's college radio station. An important figure in the blues revival of the 1960s, Waterman was also a resident of Cambridge. Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends, "much to the chagrin of my parents, who didn't expect their freshman daughter to be running around with 65-year-old bluesmen," recalled Raitt. "I was amazed by his passion for the music and the integrity with which he managed the musicians."
During Raitt's sophomore year, Waterman relocated to Philadelphia, and a number of local musicians he counted among his friends went with him. Raitt had become a strong part of that community, recalling that "... these people had become my friends, my mentors, and though I had every intention of graduating, I decided to take the semester off and move to Philadelphia .... It was an opportunity that young white girls just don't get, and as it turns out, an opportunity that changed everything."
By now, Raitt was also playing folk and rhythm and blues clubs in the Boston area, performing alongside established blues legends such as Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, all of whom she met through Waterman.
Signing with Warner Bros.[link]
In the fall of 1970, while opening for McDowell at the Gaslight Cafe in New York, she was seen by a reporter from Newsweek Magazine, who began to spread word of her performance. Scouts from major record companies were soon attending her shows to watch her play. She eventually accepted an offer with Warner Bros. who soon released her debut album, Bonnie Raitt, in 1971. The album was warmly received by the music press, many of whom praised her skills as an interpreter and as a bottleneck guitarist; at the time, very few women in popular music had strong reputations as guitarists.
While admired by those who saw her perform, and respected by her peers, Raitt gained little public acclaim for her work. Her critical stature continued to grow but record sales remained modest. Her second album, Give It Up, was released in 1972 to universal acclaim; though many critics still regard it as her best work, it did not change her commercial fortunes. 1973's Takin' My Time was also met with critical acclaim, but these notices were not matched by the sales.
Raitt was beginning to receive greater press coverage, including a 1975 cover story for Rolling Stone Magazine, but with 1974's Streetlights, reviews for her work were becoming increasingly mixed. By now, Raitt was already experimenting with different producers and different styles, and she began to adopt a more mainstream sound that continued through 1975's Home Plate.
In 1976, Raitt made an appearance on Warren Zevon's eponymous album with his friend Jackson Browne and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
Commercial success[link]
1977's Sweet Forgiveness gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough when it yielded a hit single in her cover of 's "Runaway." Recast as a heavy R&B recording based on a rhythmic groove inspired by Al Green, Raitt's version of "Runaway" was disparaged by many critics, but its commercial success prompted a bidding war between Warner Bros. and Columbia Records. "There was this big Columbia – Warner war going on at the time", recalled Raitt in a 1990 interview. "James Taylor had just left Warner Bros. and made a big album for Columbia...And then, Warner signed Paul Simon away from Columbia, and they didn't want me to have a hit record for Columbia — no matter what! So, I renegotiated my contract, and they basically matched Columbia's offer. Frankly the deal was a really big deal."
Warner Bros. held higher expectations for Raitt's next album, 1979's The Glow, but it was released to poor reviews as well as modest sales. Raitt would have one commercial success in 1979 when she helped organize the five MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) concerts at Madison Square Garden. The shows spawned a three-record gold album as well as a Warner Bros. feature film, No Nukes. The shows featured co-founders Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, John Hall, and Raitt as well as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Doobie Brothers, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Gil Scott-Heron, and numerous others.
For her next record, 1982's Green Light, Raitt made a conscious attempt to revisit the sound of her earlier records, but to her surprise, many of her peers and members of the press would compare her new sound to the burgeoning New Wave movement. The album received her strongest reviews in years, but her sales did not improve and this would have a severe impact on her relationship with Warner Bros.
Drop from Warner Bros.[link]
In 1983, as Raitt was finishing work on her follow-up album, entitled Tongue & Groove, Warner Bros. "cleaned house", dropping a number of major artists from their roster. Van Morrison and Arlo Guthrie were two of the most high-profile cases, and the day after mastering was completed on Tongue & Groove, Raitt was notified that she was to be dropped too. The album was shelved indefinitely, and Raitt was left without a label. By then, Raitt was also struggling with alcohol and drug abuse.[1]
Despite her personal and professional problems, Raitt continued to tour and participate in political activism. In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of "Sun City", the anti-apartheid record written and produced by Steven Van Zandt. Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt would later travel to Moscow in 1987 as part of the first joint Soviet/American Peace Concert later shown on Showtime television. Also in 1987, Raitt would organize a benefit in Los Angeles, for Countdown '87 to Stop Contra Aid, featuring herself, Don Henley, Herbie Hancock, Holly Near and others.
[edit] Tongue and Groove's name change and release
Two years after dropping her from their label, Warner Bros. notified Raitt of their plans to release Tongue & Groove. "I said it wasn't really fair," recalled Raitt. "I think at this point they felt kind of bad. I mean, I was out there touring on my savings to keep my name up, and my ability to draw was less and less. So they agreed to let me go in and recut half of it, and that's when it came out as Nine Lives." A critical and commercial disappointment, 1986's Nine Lives would be Raitt's last new recording for Warner Bros.
In late 1987, she joined k.d. lang and Jennifer Warnes as female background vocals for Roy Orbison's television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Following this highly acclaimed broadcast, she began working on new material. By then, Raitt was clean and sober, having broken her substance abuse — for which she credited Stevie Ray Vaughan in a Minnesota State Fair concert[2] the night after Vaughan's 1990 death. During this time, Raitt considered signing with Prince's own label, Paisley Park, but negotiations ultimately fell through. Instead she began recording a bluesy mix of pop and rock under the production guidance of Don Was at Capitol Records.
Raitt had met Was through Hal Wilner, who was putting together Stay Awake, a tribute album to Disney music for A&M. Was and Wilner both wanted Raitt to sing lead on an adult-contemporary arrangement created by Was for "Baby Mine", the lullaby from Dumbo. Raitt was very pleased with the sessions, and she asked Don to produce her next album.
Peak commercial success[link]
After nearly 20 years, Bonnie Raitt achieved belated commercial success with her tenth album, Nick of Time. Released in the spring of 1989, Nick of Time went to the top of the U.S. charts following Raitt's Grammy sweep in early 1990. At the same time, she walked away with a fourth Grammy Award for her duet "In the Mood" with John Lee Hooker on his album The Healer. Nick of Time was also the first of many of her recordings to feature her longtime rhythm section of Ricky Fataar and James "Hutch" Hutchinson (Although previously Fataar had played on her Green Light album and Hutchinson had worked on Nine Lives). Nick of Time has sold over six million copies in the US alone.
She followed up this success with three more Grammy Awards for her 1991 album, Luck of the Draw which has currently sold nearly 8 million copies in the United States. Three years later, in 1994, she added two more Grammys with her album Longing In Their Hearts, her second no. 1 album. Both of these albums were multi-platinum successes. Raitt's collaboration with Was would amicably come to an end with 1995's live release, Road Tested. Released to solid reviews, it sold well enough to be certified gold.
For her next studio album, Raitt hired Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake as her producers. "I loved working with Don Was but I wanted to give myself and my fans a stretch and do something different," Raitt said. Her work with Froom and Blake was released on Fundamental in 1998.
Current era[link]
In March 2000, Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Silver Lining was released in 2002 while Souls Alike was released in September 2005.
Australian Country Music Artist Graeme Connors has said, "Bonnie Raitt does something with a lyric no one else can do; she bends it and twists it right into your heart." (ABC Radio NSW Australia interview with Interviewer Chris Coleman on 18 January 2007)[3]
In 2007, she accepted an invitation to contribute to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino. With Jon Cleary, she sang a medley of "I'm in Love Again" and "All by Myself".
Raitt appeared on the June 7, 2008 broadcast of Garrison Keillor's radio program "A Prairie Home Companion". She performed two blues songs with Kevin "Keb' Mo'" Moore: "No Getting Over You" and "There Ain't Nothin' in Ramblin'." Raitt also sang Dimming of the Day with Richard Thompson. This show, along with another on which Raitt with her band in October 2006, is archived on the Prairie Home Companion web site.
In February 2012, Raitt performed a duet with Alicia Keys at the 2012 Grammys honoring Etta James.[4]
In April 2012, Raitt released her first studio album since Souls Alike in 2005. Entitled Slipstream, the new album was released in North America on April 10. Slipstream has been praised as "her best album in years and one of the best of her 40-year career" by American Songwriter Magazine.[5]
Political activism[link]
Raitt's political involvement goes back to the early seventies. Her 1972 album "Give it up" had a dedication "to the people of North Vietnam ..." printed on the back.
Raitt's web site urges fans to learn more about preserving the environment. She was a founding member of Musicians United for Safe Energy in 1979 and a catalyst for the larger anti-nuclear movement, becoming involved with groups like the Abalone Alliance and Alliance for Survival.
In 1994 at the urging of Dick Waterman, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, Fred McDowell through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. Raitt would later finance memorial headstones in Mississippi for Memphis Minnie, Sam Chatmon, and Tommy Johnson again with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
At the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July 2004, she dedicated a classic to sitting (and later re-elected) U.S. President George W. Bush. She was quoted as saying, "We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!" before she launched into the opening licks of "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)", a cover that was featured on her 1979 album The Glow. In 2002, she signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and free lessons to children in public schools throughout the U.S.A. She has visited children in the program and sits on the organization's board of directors as an honorary member.
In 2008, she donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.
Raitt worked with Reverb, a non-profit environmental organization, for her 2005 Fall/Winter and 2006 Spring/Summer/Fall tours.[6]
Raitt is part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007 the group recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".[7][8][9]
During the 2008 Democratic primary campaign Raitt, along with Jackson Browne and bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson, performed at campaign appearances for candidate John Edwards.
Personal life[link]
Raitt and actor Michael O'Keefe were married on April 27, 1991, and announced their divorce on November 9, 1999.[10]
Discography[link]
Main article: Bonnie Raitt discography
References[link]
- ^ Benjamin, Scott (2009-02-18). "Bonnie Raitt Will Not Be Broken". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-1209936.html. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ Jon Bream (August 22, 2002). "Grand stands: A longtime fairgoer's most unforgettable shows". StarTribune.com. http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20070828220833/http://www.startribune.com/457/v-print/story/38243.html. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ Chris Coleman (January 18, 2008). "Summer Conversations January 2008". ABC New South Wales. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080201182827/http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/stories/s2137964.htm?nsw. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
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- ^ "Bonnie Raitt: Slipstream". American Songwriter. http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/04/bonnie-raitt-slipstream. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
- ^ "Bonnie Raitt's 2006 tour". Reverb. http://www.reverb.org/projects/2006/49/Bonnie-Raitt/56. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ Daniel Kreps. ""For What It’s Worth," No Nukes Reunite After Thirty Years". NukeFree.org. http://www.nukefree.org/node/96. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ "Support Musicians Acting to Stop New Reactors". Nuclear Information and Resource Service. October 12, 2007. http://www.nirs.org/alerts/10-12-2007/1. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ "Raitt to rock against new reactors". Charleston Regional Business Journal. January 13, 2009. http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/news/26138-raitt-to-rock-against-new-reactors?rss=0. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ "Bonnie Raitt and Michael O'Keefe Divorcing". Entertainment Wire. Business Wire. 9 November 1999. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Nov_9/ai_57433327/?tag=content;col1. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
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