Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles. Although the band has undergone several changes in its lineup, the music remains an eclectic blend of rock and roll, blues, R&B, boogie, country, folk, gospel, soul, funk and jazz fusion influences.

...Lowell George met Bill Payne when George was a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Payne had auditioned for the Mothers, but had not joined. They formed Little Feat along with former Mothers' bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Richie Hayward from George's previous band, the Factory. Hayward had also been a member of the Fraternity of Man whose claim to fame was the inclusion of their "Don't Bogart Me" on the million-selling Easy Rider film soundtrack. The name of the band came from a comment made by Mothers' drummer Jimmy Carl Black about Lowell's "little feet". The spelling of "feat" was an homage to the Beatles.....The (group's) first two albums received nearly universal critical acclaim, and "Willin'" became a standard, subsequently popularized by its inclusion on Linda Ronstadt's album Heart Like a Wheel. (read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Little Feat were among the artists signed by the Warner Brothers and Reprise labels at the time (1969-1972) when they were succeeding Elektra as the "hippest" American record company, with a roster including Peel favourites like Neil Young, Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, the Grateful Dead, Randy Newman and Joni Mitchell. As the band included former members of the Mothers of Invention and the Fraternity of Man, Peel naturally took an interest and played their early albums, whose musical style appealed to him as it sometimes resembled Ry Cooder (who played on the first Little Feat album), and Captain Beefheart during his time with the Reprise label. (Indeed, bassist Roy Estrada left Little Feat to join Beefheart's Magic Band).

At first Little Feat were a cult band whose critical reputation was not matched by commercial success, until their fame grew with the release of the 1974 album Feats Don't Fail Me Now. In 1975 they visited Britain for the first time, making a big impression in a London concert even though they were billed as support band to the Doobie Brothers, a far more successful act in the US but less highly regarded by Peel and British rock audiences. From then on they were played not just by Peel, but on other radio shows which featured album-oriented rock, and remained one of the most acclaimed groups of their era until Lowell George's death in 1979. tbc

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