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Little Feat - Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
Release Date:2000
Label: Rhino/Warner Bros.
Genre: Rock, Southern Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock
Format: MP3 320 kbps
Size: 720 MB
These 83 songs go a long way toward demonstrating how Little Feat evolved their hard-to-define but infectious swamp-rock, blues, and boogie sound. The final disc in the four-disc Hotcakes & Outtakes, dubbed "Studio Outtakes," offers up the very first demo tapes made by Lowell George, the mastermind of the group.
Little Feat has always been an anomaly among rock bands. They were clumped in with the Southern rock movement that was popular in their Seventies heyday primarily because one of their biggest songs was "Dixie Chicken." Yet they hailed from Los Angeles, not Florida, Georgia, and even Maryland, as some thought. The band's fusion of rock, jazz, funk, boogie, and whatever else fit in came from someplace else entirely, and to this day, their fans aren't sure where that place is/was or why they should care anyway. Hotcakes & Outtakes is a 4-CD set celebrating this hard-to-classify but easy-to-love band's 30th anniversary, and while its heart is in the right place, it can hardly be called essential. To many, the place to start is still Waiting for Columbus, an epic live set that captures Little Feat onstage, at the peak of their powers, and in front of a totally deranged-and-loving-it audience. Hotcakes & Outtakes isn't likely to change that opinion. It tells the band's whole story, from the time when former members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, along with singer/songwriter Lowell George and bassist Roy Estrada, formed the band, through the glory years until George's untimely death in 1979, and then on to the group's re-emergence nearly a decade later and beyond. There's even a nifty disc devoted to previously unreleased George-era demos and rarities. And while latter incarnations of the band have had their moments -- "Let It Roll" still jumps from the speakers -- they're few and far between, as demonstrated by the disc solely devoted to post-George Little Feat. As a whole, Hotcakes & Outtakes does a fine job of telling the story of one of rock & roll's important bands, but ultimately, it's a guilty pleasure for completists. Or perhaps for those fans that don't already own their favorite albums on compact disc and want to spring for a fancy enchilad.
* Jim Caligiuri
Tracklisting: Disc 1 1970-1975
[02:23] 01. Strawberry Flats
[02:29] 02. Hamburger Midnight
[03:21] 03. Easy To Slip
[04:00] 04. Cold, Cold, Cold
[02:17] 05. Trouble
[03:15] 06. Tripe Face Boogie
[02:56] 07. Willin'
[04:35] 08. Cat Fever
[02:51] 09. Sailin' Shoes
[03:55] 10. Dixie Chicken
[03:07] 11. Two Trains
[02:31] 12. Roll Um Easy
[04:31] 13. Fat Man In The Bathtub
[03:16] 14. Fool Yourself
[02:43] 15. Spanish Moon (Single Version)
[02:58] 16. Rock And Roll Doctor
[03:29] 17. Oh Atlanta
[04:13] 18. Skin It Back
[02:28] 19. Feats Don't Fail Me Now
[04:26] 20. Mercenary Territory
[03:33] 21. All That You Dream (Single Version)
[02:43] 22. Long Distance Love
[06:23] 23. Day Or Night
Time: 01:18:35
Size: 510.78 MB / 183.72 MB
Tracklisting: Disc 2 1976-1981
[03:37] 01. Hi Roller
[03:48] 02. Time Loves a Hero
[03:23] 03. Rocket in My Pocket
[03:32] 04. Old Folks Boogie
[06:28] 05. Day at the Dog Races
[04:57] 06. Fat Man in the Bathtub (live)
[04:31] 07. All That You Dream (live)
[04:37] 08. Mercenary Territory (live)
[05:01] 09. Spanish Moon (live)
[02:49] 10. 20 Million Things
[03:49] 11. Down on the Farm
[02:32] 12. Six Feet of Snow
[06:34] 13. Gringo
[03:14] 14. Lonesome Whistle
[04:50] 15. Front Page News
[06:16] 16. The Fan (live)
[04:57] 17. Red Streamliner (live)
[04:15] 18. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (live)
Time: 01:19:17
Size: 544.85 MB / 185.75 MB
Tracklisting: Disc 3 1988-1998
[04:22] 01. Hate to Lose Your Lovin'
[04:30] 02. Let It Roll
[04:46] 03. Hangin' On to the Good Times
[03:30] 04. Rad Gumbo
[04:47] 05. Texas Twister
[05:55] 06. Representing the Mambo
[04:23] 07. The Ingenue
[04:52] 08. Shake Me Up
[04:26] 09. Things Happen
[04:22] 10. Borderline Blues (single version)
[05:31] 11. Cadillac Hotel
[03:27] 12. Ain't Had Enough Fun
[04:55] 13. Can't Be Satisfied/They're Red Hot (Hot Tamales) (live)
[04:08] 14. Home Ground
[06:15] 15. The Blues Don't Tell It All
[06:33] 16. Eden's Wall
Time: 01:16:49
Size: 570.23 MB / 180.17 MB
Tracklisting: Disc 4 Studio Artifacts
[02:13] 01. Lightning-Rod Man
[02:31] 02. Crack In Your Door
[03:19] 03. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (pre-Warner recording)
[02:56] 04. Juliet
[03:31] 05. Jazz Thing In 10
[04:53] 06. Rat Faced Dog
[02:47] 07. Doglines
[02:48] 08. Wait Till the Shit Hits The Fan
[02:41] 09. Easy To Fall (Easy To Slip)
[03:23] 10. Texas Rose Cafe
[02:44] 11. Doriville
[03:45] 12. Boogie (Tripe Face Boogie)
[03:18] 13. Two Trains
[04:06] 14. Roto/Tone
[03:28] 15. Ace In The Hole (Hi Roller)
[04:41] 16. Eldorado Sam
[02:30] 17. Feats Don't Fail Me Now
[03:01] 18. Brickyard Blues
[03:33] 19. All That You Dream
[01:54] 20. Down Below The Borderline
[02:34] 21. Rockin' Shoes I & II
[04:44] 22. Front Page News
[03:37] 23. High Roller
[02:40] 24. Roll 'Em Easy
[01:10] 25. Boogie Wigwam (Short Jazz Piece)
Time: 01:18:58
Size: 490.75 MB / 183.45 MB
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