Sailin' Shoes

Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes

Sailin' Shoes
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Artist: Little Feat
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Easy To Slip
  2. Cold, Cold, Cold
  3. Trouble
  4. Tripe Face Boogie
  5. Willin'
  6. A Apolitical Blues
  7. Sailin' Shoes
  8. Teenage Nervous Breakdown
  9. Got No Shadow
  10. Cat Fever
  11. Texas Rose Cafe

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Free Music Review: Willin' to wear those Sailin' Shoes Little Feat make a classic album
Hit: 5 Stars

Overlooked and underappreciated, Little Feat gained popularity during their day but never had got the airplay or found the audience of other bands producing similar music at the same time. "Sailing Shoes" is a potent mix of the band's bluesy sound highlighted by Lowell George's distinctive slide playing (George was aided on their debut by Ry Cooder when Lowell badly injured his hand which altered his playing style giving us the familair sound that highlight so many later albums). The songwriting is top notch here improving on their already strong debut. Lowell George came into his own as a vocalist here and although that strong Dixieland blues/jazz influence isn't as prominent here, you can hear it lurking in the background more so than the band's strong debut.

Still playing as a four piece with George handling the bulk of the guitar work(Paul Barrere would join full time on the next album after being asked to audition as a bass player even though he was a guitar player and really wasn't all that interested in playing bass)assisted by the late, great Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Ron Elliot on three tracks of the album.

Keyboardist and co-founder Bill Payne contributes three strong songs--"Cat Fever", "Got No Shadow" and "Tripe Face Boogie" written with drummer Richie Hayward. "Willin'" (which reportedly had something to do with Zappa dismissing George from his band. Zappa told him he needed to go off and found his own band. The other reason reportedly was Zappa's "no drugs" policy which George would have rebelled against)makes another appearence in its definitive version while a couple of tracks originally written for George's previous band The Factory also show up.

"A Political Blues" one of George's most popular songs shows up here as well. "Easy to Slip" and "Texas Rose Cafe" (both of which George and the band did demos for The Doobie Brothers when Ted Templeman was looking for additional material for the band)also appear and both are terrific songs that bookend the album.

The CD sounds extremely good with a nice mastering job done by Lee Herschberg and a booklet that includes lyrics, credits and photos.

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Sailin' Shoes demonstrates just how briskly Little Feat was developing in their early 1970s formative years. A pronounced step up from the Southern California quartet's critically praised 1971 debut, it's not as fully realized as the Feat's 1973 zenith, Dixie Chicken. But it's not far behind, and that's saying something. The final recording made by the original quartet (the band swelled to six members after founding bassist and Mothers of Invention alumni Roy Estrada split), Little Feat circa 1972 is a lean, energetic outfit. "Cold, Cold, Cold," "Tripe Face Boogie," "Apolitical Blues," and "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" are blunter rockers than what would follow. Lowell George's title track and Bill Payne's "Got No Shadow" and "Cat Fever," meanwhile, presage the more limber direction the group was headed. --Steven Stolder
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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