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Rhino Presents Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990, Featuring Studio Albums, Live Recordings, And Outtakes By The Legendary Group

13-CD Boxed Set Now Available

Little Feat blended a wide range of musical styles to create a sound that’s as indescribable as it is unforgettable. During the band’s celebrated tenure with Warner Bros. Records it recorded nine studio albums between 1971 and 1990 that included such classic tracks as “Dixie Chicken,” “Rocket in My Pocket,” “Fat Man In the Bathtub” and “Willin’.”

Rhino drives from Tucson to Tucumcari to bring fans a boxed set that includes all of those studio albums, plus a generous helping of live recordings and studio outtakes. Presented in a clamshell box, RAD GUMBO: THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. YEARS 1971-1990 is now available.

Singer-guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne formed the band in 1969 with drummer Richie Hayward and bassist Roy Estrada. The quartet recorded two acclaimed albums — its self-titled debut and SAILIN’ SHOES. Each featured a different version of “Willin’” – one stripped down with Ry Cooder on slide guitar and the other backed by the full band.

Little Feat’s sound and line-up evolved in 1972 when Kenny Gradney replaced Estrada on bass and the band added second guitarist Paul Barrere and percussionist Sam Clayton. Over the next seven years, the group recorded five studio albums and many of its greatest songs—“Roll Um Easy,” “Oh Atlanta, “All That You Dream,” “Time Loves a Hero” and “Down on the Farm.” During that time, Little Feat also recorded WAITING FOR COLUMBUS, a stellar live album that captured the band in its prime. RAD GUMBO includes a disc of additional performances left off the original that were released in 2002 on the expanded edition of the album.

Sadly in 1979, George died from a heart attack and the band stopped recording for nine years. In the interim, Little Feat released HOY-HOY!, a collection that mixed alternate versions of songs and live recordings with some unreleased material.

The band reunited in 1988, adding guitarist Fred Tackett and singer Craig Fuller, who was a founding member of Pure Prairie League. This new line-up recorded two successful albums for Warner Bros. Records – LET IT ROLL and REPRESENTING THE MAMBO. The albums featured memorable songs like “Rad Gumbo,” “Let it Roll” and two #1 hits on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart – “Hate to Lose Your Lovin’” and “Texas Twister.” The final disc of this collection highlights outtakes from HOTCAKES & OUTTAKES: 30 YEARS OF LITTLE FEAT, a four-disc retrospective collection released by Rhino in 2000.

RAD GUMBO: THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. YEARS 1971-1990

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)
Waiting For Columbus (1978)
Bonus Disc from Waiting for Columbus: Expanded Edition
Down On the Farm (1979)
Hoy-Hoy! (1981)
Let It Roll (1988)
Representing the Mambo (1990)
Outtakes from Hotcakes and Outtakes (2000)

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Track Listing

Track Listing: Little Feat (1971): 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. Sailing Shoes (1972): 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 Café. Dixie Chicken (1973): 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. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1974): Rock and Roll Doctor; Oh Atlanta; Skin It Back; Down the Road; Spanish Moon; Feets Don’t Fail Me Now; The Fan. The Last Record Album (1975): Romance Dance; All That You Dream; Long Distance Love; Day or Night; One Love Stand; Down Below the Borderline; Somebody’s Leavin’; Mercenary Territory. Time Loves a Hero (1977): 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. Waiting for Columbus (live, 1978): Join the Band; Fat Man in the Bathtub; All That You Dream; Oh Atlanta; Old Folks’ Boogie; Dixie Chicken; Tripe Face Boogie; Rocket In My Pocket; Time Loves A Hero; Day Or Night; Mercenary Territory; Spanish Moon; Willin’; Don’t Bogart That Joint; Apolitical Blues; Sailin’ Shoes; Feats Don’t Fail Me Now. Down on the Farm (1979): 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. Hoy-Hoy (live, 1981): Rocket In My Pocket; Rock And Roll Doctor; Skin It Back; Easy To Slip; Red Streamliner; Lonesome Whistle; Front Page News; The Fan; Forty-Four Blues; Teenage Nervous Breakdown; Teenage Nervous Breakdown; Framed; Strawberry Flats; Gringo; Over The Edge; Two Trains; China White; All That You Dream; Feets Don’t Fail Me Now. Let It Roll (1988): 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. Representing the Mambo (1989): 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. Outtakes from Hotcakes (live, 2014): Jazz Thing in 10; Rat Faced Dog; Doglines; Wait Till the Shit Hits the Fan; Easy To Fall (Easy To Slip); Texas Rose Café; Doriville; Boogie (Tripe Face Boogie); Two Trains; Roto/Tone; Ace in the Hole (Hi Roller); Eldorado Slim; Feats Don’t Fail Me Now; Brickyard Blues; All That You Dream; Spanish Moon; Down Below the Borderline; Rockin’ Shoes I & II; Front Page News; High Roller; All That You Dream; Roll ‘Em Easy; Boogie Wigwam (short jazz piece); Teenage Nervous Breakdown.

Personnel

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Personnel: The original lineup was Roy Estrada, bass and backing vocals; Lowell George, vocals, guitar, harmonica; Richie Hayward, drums, backing vocals; and Bill Payne, vocals, keyboards. This was the lineup on the band’s eponymous debut of 1971 and its 1972 follow-up, Sailin’ Shoes. The most famous lineup preserved George, Hayward and Payne, shedding Estrada and adding Paul Barrere, vocals, guitar; Sam Clayton, congas, vocals, percussion; and bassist Kenny Gradney. This was the backbone of the albums from Dixie Chicken through Hoy-Hoy. Let It Roll of 1988, the band’s first studio album without founder George, featured former Pure Prairie League singer Craig Fuller, who also led the band on 1990’s Representing the Mambo, its Warner Brothers finale. Musicians who helped the band over the years – particularly on the post-George albums – include singers Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger and Shaun Murphy (who would be its lead singer for a few years in the early ’90s) and multi-instrumentalist Fred Tackett, who’s still in the group. Others who helped out include singers such as one-time Doobie Brother Michael McDonald and Valerie Carter, Steely Dan guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker and the literate, eccentric Van Dyke Parks, who recorded Feat’s “Sailin’ Shoes” on Discover America, his weird 1972 precursor of what could come to be known as Americana.

Album information

Title: Little Feat Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971 to 1990 | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Warner Bros.

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