Originally from Burbank in California, Little Feat have been one of the greatest North American rock bands in the seventies for their technique, inventiveness, vitality, inspiration and sonority. Its secret lay in the bizarre surrealism, sometimes torn, of its lyrics, ironic and with a taste for nonsensical nonsense, and in its sound, a particular synthesis.
Led by Lowell George, a character of great charisma who began his career in Los Angeles playing for various groups, including the Standells and Factory, and later became part of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
After leaving Frank Zappa's band and together with the bassist of the same band, Roy Estrada would found Little Feat, in addition to the drummer Richard Hayward and the pianist Bill Payne.
The group would perform for some time in Los Angeles and Houston, quickly attracting public attention, in part thanks to Lowell George's great reputation.
Little Feat's music is dense and careful, an original synthesis of blues, boogie, country, gospel, rhythm and blues from New Orleans and Memphis and echoes of Californian rock.
His definitive consecration would come with his second album "Sailin´Shoes", a superb album that contains the anguished "Trouble", the boogie-country "Tripe Face Boogie", the country blues "A Apocalitical Blues" and "Willin´" a song classic folk of the group. This album enthusiastically praised by the specialized press and especially by Rolling Stone magazine, has the collaboration of the graphic studio Neon Park, which would illustrate all its covers with an extravagant pop imagination.
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