Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat [Box set]

Little Feat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 19, 2000
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00004WH6I
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Strawberry Flats

2. Hamburger Midnight

3. Easy To Slip

4. Cold, Cold, Cold

5. Trouble

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Hi Roller

2. Time Loves A Hero

3. Rocket In My Pocket

4. Old Folks Boogie

5. Day At The Dog Races

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Hate To Lose Your Lovin'

2. Let It Roll

3. Hangin' On To The Good Times

4. Rad Gumbo

5. Texas Twister

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Lightning-Rod Man

2. Crack In Your Door

3. Teenage Nervous Breakdown

4. Juliet

5. Jazz Thing In 10

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Attention, October 15, 2000

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Craig Pinson (Scottsdale Az) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (Audio CD)

This collection of Little Feat has to be one of the highlights of the year. A group, who like Creedence was from California, but had a sound born of the swamp, is finally getting the treatment they have always deserved. Always known as a musicians band, Little Feat was hard to pigeonhole, thus they never got the radioplay they deserved. But a listen to the songs here will attest to the fact that this was a band who could cover many styles but always keep their sound. From the early tracks and outtakes of disc 4 to the live tracks from Waiting for Columbus, the Feat takes the listener on a musical journey. With Lowell Georges tasty slide to Bill Paynes keyboard work, to Richie Haywards controlled yet frantic drumming, you hear ragtime with Dixie Chicken, country with Willin`, and Southern Rock with Two Trains. Rhino should again be commended for another incredible set, so buy this and learn what Linda Ronstadt, The Doobie Brothers, and Bonnie Raitt have always knew. This band is the best, and with this set there is now no excuse.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sparkplug puller does it again, September 24, 2000

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Gene Bruner (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (Audio CD)

Thirty years of sophisticated music is often more than any modern rock band is expected to accomplish, but Little Feat has spent the bulk of the last three decades offering the unexpected. This "box set" dovetails nicely with the band's last retrospective, "Hoy Hoy", that came out two years after the band's founder, Lowell George, died (1979). Since then, the band has gone their separate ways, reformed, re-tooled, and have rejuvinated a sound as authentic to our culture as buffalo nickles and velvet art work. "Hotcakes and Outtakes" provides a common ground for old and new fans to observe the rich, musical talents of a band that bravely never quite fit into any programmable radio format. The first three cd's offer a rich menu of the band's talents, humor, and innovative sound. Replete with an 80 page history of the band, the Little Feat story makes both sense and nonsense out of the band constantly in conflict, but totally dependent on the emotional traction each player brought to the table. However, it is the fourth cd that the die hard Little Feat fan will find the most gratifying. Here, demos and outtakes rule the day. It is a poignant reminder of a time when an entire band shunned sleek studio wizardry and produced simple nuts and bolts rock and roll. Lowell George, Billy Payne, Paul Barrer, Richie Heyward, Sam Clayton, Kenny Gradney, Shaun Murphy, Fred Tacket, and Craig Fuller all make up the tribe called Little Feat: a band intent on befuddling the record industry, and a band smart enough to go straight to their audience. Believe me, bands today could learn a few things from Little Feat.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absoultely Superb, September 20, 2000

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Richard Arfin "East Hampton Man" (East Hampton, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (Audio CD)

"Hotcakes & Outtakes" is a must. Stop reading this review and buy it RIGHT NOW. Believe me, it's worth every penny plus a few you won't spend. If you're a fan of great bands (that is, The Meters, The Band, The Street Choir, L'il Band O' Gold), bands that are seamless, bands that have a collective groove that's so hot and so distinctive that it's a trademark sound. If you're a fan of intelligent lyrics and compact songwriting (that is, John Hiatt, Marshall Crenshaw, Steely Dan), this is the real thing - thinking person's ear candy. If you love bands that can jam (that is, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers of Invention, even Phish!), here it is. Little Feat was, and in a big way, is still one of the funkiest bands on the planet. The first two disks takes you through two incarnations of the band led by the late Lowell George, a true rock 'n roll original. To say that Lowell is missed is to minimize the feeling of absence. Like John Lennon or Phil Ochs, he was a revolutionary, a genius and an influence. DiskThree takes you into 1988, through the Craig Fuler years into the present Shaun Murphy Feat. All good stuff...very chooglin'. Disk Four is an amazing collection of demos and outtakes recently unearthed. This disk brings tears to my eyes. This is Little Feat heaven and Lowell George is playing Standing Room Only. This disk is worth the price of admission all by itself. Finally, thehistory of Little Feat by Bud Scoppa reads like a novel. The quotes and nuggets are all fascinating. In fact, Paul Barrere's notes on the new "old" recordings is great. It took me a few days to read all of it. The aretwork by Neon Park is in the best Feat tradition: it is a painting of Aunt Jemima wreaking revenge on the South by destroying Atlanta with laser pancakes. Great. Just great. While Lowell was alive, I saw Little Feat several times. My favorite memories are being glued to the WLIR-FM while they performed live at My Father's Place. What a concert. I still listen to the cassette I made that night. My other memory is of the best concert I ever attended. It was at New York's Beacon Theater and the bill opened with Allen Toussaint and his New Orleans Review. Toussaint was promoting his excellent "Southern Nights" album and was touring with members of The Meters, The Nevilles, Irma Thomas, Gary Brown and more. They filled the stage with the most remarkable funk. After four encores, I wondered how Little Feat could possibly step onto the stage and follow Toussaint. Well they did and all I can say is that the band took the funk up another notch and blew the roof off the place. All I can say is "Hotcakes & Outcakes" places me back in the first row of the balcony. Choice seats. Best seats in the house for the best band on the planet. Like I said in the beginning, BUY THIS RIGHT NOW!