We grew up on the phenomenal music of Little Feat, the southern funk-rock-boogie extraordinaires led by Lowell George, guitar-genius Paul Barrere and Santa Barbara County’s own Billy Payne.  Many a summertime was filled with the music of Little Feat and any or all of their first seven, all-time albums, not least of which was Feats Don’t Fail Me (which you can listen to in its entirety below).  Check out below a great live vignette of the band performing one of their greats, Dixie Chicken, on Burt Sugarman’s The Midnight Special in1977, with a young Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jesse Winchester.  Too dang good.  They were one of the best live bands we have ever witnessed, having caught them repeatedly in the ’70s in ole, vaunted Robertson Gym (UCSB) and elsewhere in Santa Barbara County.

After Dixie Chicken, listen to Feats Don’t Fail Me Now.  Every song is a masterpiece of rock, funk, soul, fusion, prog and everything in between or combined.  Here’s the album’s tracklist so you can play along at home:

1. Rock And Roll Doctor
2. Oh Atlanta
3. Skin It Back
4. Down The Road
5. Spanish Moon
6. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
7. The Fan
8. Medley : Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie