Rhino is giving the complete albums treatment to another classic rock artist on the Warner Bros. label: the eclectic combo Little Feat. Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 will feature all 11 studio and live albums the band cut for the label, as well as two additional bonus discs of rare material.
Formed by ex-Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat first rose to prominence for their killer rock-blues style, particularly both versions of the song “Willin’” from the band’s first two albums. (Each version featured a distinctive slide guitar part, the latter played by George and the former by Ry Cooder, filling in for George after a model airplane accident hurt his hand.) It was notably covered by Linda Ronstadt on Heart Like a Wheel in 1974.
Lineup changes in 1972 – bassist Roy Estrada was replaced by Kenny Gradney and guitarist Paul Barrere and percussionist Sam Clayton were added to the existing lineup with George, keyboardist Bill Payne and drummer Richie Hayward – led to an interesting stylistic shift: albums Dixie Chicken and Feats Don’t Fail Me Now were decidedly funkier, with heavy influences from New Orleans-style jazz. Collaborations with drummer Chico Hamilton and singer Robert Palmer would follow (Palmer covered their “Sailin’ Shoes” and the band backed him on many of his early records).
But tragedy struck at the end of the decade when George died of a heart attack bought on by overindulgence. An album, Down on the Farm, was completed in 1979, and Hoy-Hoy!, a collection of outtakes and alternates, was released two years later. All was not over, though: in 1987, the band reformed with singer/songwriter/guitarist Craig Fuller and guitarist Fred Tackett. Resultant album Let It Roll and single “Hate to Lose Your Lovin’” were considerable hits. The band departed Warner Bros. in 1990, and Fuller himself would leave in 1993, but Barrere, Gradney, Tackett and Clayton (plus Gabe Ward on drums, following Hayward’s 2010 passing) continue to tour and record under the Little Feat banner, releasing Rooster Rag, their 15th album, in 2012.
Rad Gumbo features, in addition to all of the band’s studio albums (Little Feat (1971) to Representing the Mambo (1980)) and Hoy-Hoy!, the double-disc 2002 expanded edition of George-era live album Waiting for Columbus (featuring the complete, reordered album program on Disc 1 and Disc 2, followed by performances mixed for possible album release but ultimately unused and outtakes later issued on Hoy-Hoy!) and a bonus disc of tracks released on the 2000 box set Hotcakes & Outtakes (we’re waiting on official confirmation from Rhino as to which tracks feature on this disc).
Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 is available February 25. Hit the jump for order links and all the info we have thus far!
Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 (Warner Bros./Rhino, 2014)
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Disc 1: Little Feat (Warner Bros. WS 1890, 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
Disc 2: Sailin’ Shoes (Warner Bros. BS 2600, 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
Disc 3: Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros. BS 2686, 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
Disc 4: Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (Warner Bros. BS 2784, 1974)
Rock & Roll Doctor
Oh, Atlanta
Skin It Back
Down the Road
Spanish Moon
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
The Fan
Medley: Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie
Disc 5: The Last Record Album (Warner Bros. BS 2884, 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
Disc 6: Time Loves a Hero (Warner Bros. BS 3015, 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
Disc 7: Waiting for Columbus (Live) (Warner Bros. 2BS 3140, 1978)
Join the Band (Live @ Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C. – 8/10/1977)
Fat Man in the Bathtub (Live @ Lisner Auditorium. Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
All That You Dream (Live @ Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Oh Atlanta (Live @ Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Old Folks’ Boogie (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/4/1977)
Dixie Chicken (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/3 and 8/4/1977)
Tripe Face Boogie (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/2 and 8/3/1977)
Rocket in My Pocket (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/2/1977)
Time Loves a Hero (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/4/1977)
Day or Night (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/4/1977)
Mercenary Territory (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/2/1977)
Spanish Moon (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Disc 8: Waiting for Columbus: Expanded Edition (bonus disc from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78274, 2002)
Willin’ (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Don’t Bogart That Joint (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
A Apolitical Blues (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/3/1977)
Sailin’ Shoes (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/10/1977)
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/9/1977)
One Love Stand (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/9/1977)
Rock and Roll Doctor (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/9/1977)
Skin It Back (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/2/1977)
On Your Way Down (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/10/1977)
Walkin’ All Night (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Cold, Cold, Cold (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London – 8/4/1977)
Day at the Dog Races (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/9/1977)
Skin It Back (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Red Streamliner (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Disc 9: Down on the Farm (Warner Bros. HS 3345, 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
Disc 10: Hoy-Hoy! (Warner Bros. 2BSK 3538, 1981)
Rocket in My Pocket (Acoustic Demo)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor (Alternate)
Skin It Back (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Easy to Slip (Original Sailin’ Shoes Version)
Red Streamliner (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Lonesome Whistle (Lowell George Demo)
Front Page News (Original Melody)
The Fan (Live 1974)
Forty-Four Blues (Original Little Feat Version)
Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Original 1969 Demo)
Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Live @ Lisner Auditorium Washington D.C. – 8/8/1977)
Framed
Strawberry Flats (Original Little Feat version)
Gringo
Over the Edge
Two Trains (Live 1973)
China White
All That You Dream (Live from Lowell George Tribute Concert feat. Linda Ronstadt)
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (Live 1976)
Disc 11: Let It Roll (Warner Bros. 25750, 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
Disc 12: Representing the Mambo (Warner Bros. 26163, 1990)
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
Disc 13: Selections from Hotcakes and Outtakes (Warner Bros./Rhino R2 79912, 2000)
Track list to be determined
