Little Feat
Demos and Outtakes
1971 - 1977

01. Cat Fever
02. Cat Fever
03. Hamburger Midnight
04. Hamburger Midnight
05. Rocket In My Pocket
06. “Smoke A Joint Today”
07. Long Distance Love (with extra verse)
08. Down The Road
09. Oh Atlanta
10. Mercenary Territory Jam
11. Fool On The Avenue
12. Rocket In My Pocket (instrumental)
13. Long Distance Love
14. Eldorado Slim

1-4: 1st album sessions 1971
5: studio rehearsal
6-10: Silver Springs, MD studio 1974
11-12: Solo Lowell, Saddle Peak Studios c.1977
13. Lowell demo
14: Live in Texas 1971 (the only other extant live version?)

artwork included

uploaded to DimeADozen 27 March 2007 by steelysbro

well, kids, if these magnetic fragments don’t beat all. lotsa epiphanies are in store if you haven’t heard these ditties yet. Hell, fool on the avenue alone is worth the price of remission (sic). I've been across this country, from Denver to the ocean and I’ve yet to find some of these thangs - to wit, the maryland boogies - available anywhere else. If anyone out there has a couple of degrees in bebop and thinks that certain tracks might vex DaD’s legal dept., rest up, good buddy and take a load off. Research has been done and ain’t no one to be offended by the renditions being offered herein.

If it runs amuck, call the duck....

LOWELL GEORGE 1945-1979

Lowell George, slide guitarist, songwriter and founder of Little Feat, was born on April 13, 1945, in Hollywood, California. As a child, Lowell appeared with his brother on Ted Macks, "Original Amateur Hour," performing a harmonic duet. Lowell also learned to play oboe and baritone saxaphone and played the instruments for Frank Sinatra sessions. In the late 60's, Lowell joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention where he met Roy Estrada. In 1969, Lowell and Roy formed Little Feat with Bill Payne and Richie Hayward. After the band's second album, Sailin' Shoes, Roy left the group and Paul Barrere, Kenny Gradney, and Sam Clayton were added. In 1979, Lowell announced he was leaving the band. He released a solo album, "Thanks I'll Eat It Here" and began a tour to promote it. On June 28, 1979, after a show at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C., Lowell suffered a heart attack and died. He was 34 years old.