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Friday, June 13th, 2008“Let It Roll,” by Little Feat, who are playing a free concert in Old Town Alexandria tomorrow. One for your “roll down the windows and step on the gas” collection.
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Hank Williams Jr. tour, 1989: this song was in the preshow audio roll. When I heard it, I always knew it was time to trip downstage and check on the kabuki drop.
It’s almost Pavlovian to me. Great song.
I expected an artist named “Little Feat.” and names their songs “Let it Roll” to be a rapper.
I was wrong.
Aw, HELL yeah! This is a definitive “Roll down the windows and floor it!” tune!
I saw these guys in Salt Lake City shortly after this song came out. They were the LOUDEST band I’ve EVER seen, and that list includes Van Halen, Rush, and about a half-dozen other classic rock ensembles. Furthermore, it seemed as if everybody in the Feat plays slide guitar, including the drummer and the sound techs.
Wow, people still listen to Ye Moderne Little Feat?
I’m with what Bonnie Raitt said ages ago, after Lowell George died: “I miss Little Feat more than I miss being eight years old”.
Listen to “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now” for the _real_ deal.
I gotta admit I put on “Feats Don’t Fail me Now” immediately after seeing your link. It’s great having your entire CD collection as MP3s, I hadn’t listened to them in a while now.
“Don’t Fail Me Now” is a great record, but I think that L.G. would be proud of how the Feats carried on without him.
I love “Let It Roll”.
When I think about “Changing Luck” in a context of American political history, it just breaks my heart:
“There’s a feelin’ in the sky tonight
Tough as nails and I feel the cold wind start to bite
Folks I meet seem so cold
Blown like leaves their faces hard and set in stone
I’d just like to know
Cold and tired, hope all gone
Just how far this road goes on
I’d just like to see
All or nothin’, high or low
Just how far this game can go
Plant my feet on foreign soil
No return I crossed that mil some time ago
Cast my eyes on streets that shine
Reflect my image and I know I’m livin’ on borrowed time
I’d sure like to feel
Dreams I chased so long ago
Weren’t wasted miles on empty roads
I’d just like to believe
All these desperate cries I hear
Are falling on a sympathetic ear”
“Let It Roll” will not be on the soon-to-be-released (August 26) new Little Feat album, called “Join the Band” … but it is a compilation of some of their old favorites as requested by a bunch of performers who join them. Bob Seeger, for example, joins the band to sing “Something in the Water”. Bela Fleck and Sam Bush join Emmylou Harris to sing “Sailin’ Shoes”. Dave Matthews does a slowed down version of “Fat Man In The Bathtub” (with Sonny Landreth on guitar). Others include Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), Vince Gill, Brooks and Dunn, Dr. John, Mac MacAnally, and Jimmy Buffet. But my favorite is a duet between Billy Payne and Inara George (Lowell’s daughter), who sing the lullaby Lowell wrote for her when she was a baby: “Trouble”.