LITTLE FEAT

Empire Plaza
Albany, NY
August 31, 1999


1. Hate To Lose Your Lovin'
2. Rad Gumbo
3. Ain't Nothin' You Can Do
4. Rock and Roll Doctor
5. Dixie Chicken
6. Takes A Lot To Laugh
7. Oh Atlanta
8. All That You Dream
9. Shake For Me
10. Home Ground
11. The Blues Don't Tell It All
12. Let It Roll
Encore:
13. Willin > Don't Bogart That Joint > Willin'
14. Fat Man In The Bathtub

Shaun Murphy - v
Paul Barrere - g, v
Bill Payne - keys, v
Richie Hayward - dr
Fred Tackett - g, v
Sam Clayton - perc, v
Kenny Gradney - b

Alright, it's time to give a little back. DIME has been the all-you-can-eat buffet to top them all. But it ain't nothin' unless we clean out our closets, attics, and garages and share the bounty of tapes, discs, reel-to-reel, what have you. So with that, here's a little something for the Feats fans out there. Never before circulated, from my own master.

Little Feat returned to the Hudson Valley for a second show within the span of six weeks months in the summer of 1999. I posted my recording of the Poughkeepsie show (1999-07-16) a couple of years ago. Now, I've finally mastered these two minidiscs that I've had sitting in my archive for a dozen years. Cripes, time flies! And Richie Hayward is gone, too?! But the music lives on.

Somebody in New York's state capitol got the great idea to hire Little Feat for an end of summer free show as a gift to anyone who would brave the 60s concrete vision called Empire Plaza. Surrounded by gleaming granite government buildings it may not have been the coziest of settings, but the weather was great, the atmosphere was joyful and the bandÑas well as openers Levon Helm and his Barn BurnersÑbrought their finest rootsy, American groove to the party.

I placed myself squarely center, about ten rows up from the stage in pretty sweet spot for recording. I also taped a 20 minute chunk of openers Levon & the Barn Burners ripping through some Muddy and Big Joe Turner tunes, but they are on the DIME NAB list. After the show, the members of Little Feat were more than good sports and signed autographs for anyone who bought their then-current release, Under The Radar. It means a lot to simply have had the chance to say "thank you for the music." Not much else to add, except enjoy, share, but don't sell or buy this recording!

Lineage:

Sony ECM-917 Condenser Mic > Sony MZ-R30 Minidisc Recorder (SP) > Sony MDS- JE500 > Tascam CD-RW700 > AIFF > Apple Logic (EQ, Compressor/Limiter, Stereo Imaging) > FLAC

Richie Hayward, Lowell George, R.I.P.