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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 26, 2023 10:17:54 GMT
A cut above their southern peers with an added layer of American eccentricity courtesy of Lowell George. Swampy, funky, groovy but tuneful and quirky too. Love those Neon Park sleeves too.
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Post by fange on Apr 26, 2023 11:05:19 GMT
Great band, adept at both rockin and groovin.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Apr 26, 2023 11:27:54 GMT
They were from Los Angeles, but have always been lumped in with Southern Rock. They had a strong New Orleans influence, which is probably why.
Lowell George left the band because they were moving into a new fusion direction
I love this song, but I see his point -- this sounds nothing like Little Feat to me.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 26, 2023 12:12:27 GMT
They were from Los Angeles, but have always been lumped in with Southern Rock. They had a strong New Orleans influence, which is probably why. My bad. I knew the Zappa connection but in my head George, at least, was from elsewhere. |
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Post by fearlessfreap on Apr 26, 2023 14:15:41 GMT
They were from Los Angeles, but have always been lumped in with Southern Rock. They had a strong New Orleans influence, which is probably why. My bad. I knew the Zappa connection but in my head George, at least, was from elsewhere. Lowell George's father was a furrier that sold fur coats to Hollywood celebrities. He (Lowell) also appeared with his earlier band, The Factory, on the TV show, F Troop in the mid 1960's. |
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Post by riggers on Apr 26, 2023 15:38:51 GMT
The first album is pretty much all great. I particularly adore both of these, which for me are somewhere between Richard Manuel's best ballads and the ballads from 'Exile', like 'Let It Loose' or 'Shine A Light. On more than one occasion, 'I've Been The One' has made me kind of choke and tear up a bit and I don't even know what the lyrics are. It's all about the delivery and that magical combination of a poignant sounding chord sequence and a vocal with a pronounced emotional tenor. Can't beat it.
Then there's this, which has the same kind of goofy abandon that Band tunes like 'W.S. Wallcot' or 'Yazoo Street Scandal' have.
I've heard bits of the later stuff that have been pretty cool, but I've never seriously delved past the debut.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 26, 2023 17:42:58 GMT
Funnily enough, I never thought much of the first album, a few moments notwithstanding.
But the next few - Sailin' Shoes, Dixie Chicken and Feats Don't Fail Me Now - are effing great.
The rest of the George-era albums have, at a minimum, a couple of great songs each. But at least as early as Time Loves A Hero there seemed to be a process of trying to smooth out (or formularize) the idiosyncratic wrinkles that helped make them interesting. I don't know, but I suspect it was that inclination as well as the jazz-fusion bent that drove Lowell away. Although he wasn't the only talented writer/singer in the band, I never heard anything by the post-Lowell band that could capture and hold my attention - tolerable background music, at best.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 28, 2023 3:28:02 GMT
From a Rhino Records e-mail:
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Post by fange on Apr 28, 2023 6:33:57 GMT
Funnily enough, I never thought much of the first album, a few moments notwithstanding. The songs or the sound not quite there, Charlie? I've not heard the later LF albums yet; any recommendations for which should i start with? |
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 28, 2023 7:11:00 GMT
Funnily enough, I never thought much of the first album, a few moments notwithstanding. The songs or the sound not quite there, Charlie? Yeah, and... a few pretty-strong cuts aside, it just seems a little too eccentric for eccentricity's sake, to me. Affected, to use your favorite adjective.  (I feel the same way about "Texas Rose Cafe" on the second album, but it's the last song on that and by that time they've won me over with most of the rest of the album, so I cut them some slack.) I've not heard the later LF albums yet; any recommendations for which should i start with? You mean the post-Lowell ones? I'm not a fan, but if you want to try one it might as well be the first, Let It Roll. It is, I think, the only one I've heard in its entirety. It's not disgraceful by any means, but... If you mean the later studio albums with Lowell, they're increasingly patchy, though like I said they each have at least a couple of good cuts. And there's the live Waiting For Columbus, which is a solid fan favorite - though despite it being the first one I heard, and having some terrific performances, it isn't one I really ever reach for (it's a little too stretched out in that '70s double-live-album way, for my tastes). Hoy-Hoy! is a posthumous odds-and-sods collection - there are some good cuts there, too (and a fun booklet in the original double-LP), though probably nothing you couldn't live without. Lowell's solo album Thanks I'll Eat It Here, which he was in the middle of promoting when he died, is probably worth hearing, though I confess it's been ages since I last did. |
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Post by fange on Apr 28, 2023 7:30:38 GMT
Nice, i'll check out some of those this weekend, cheers.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Apr 28, 2023 11:41:29 GMT
I would love to hear a live show from 72-73, so I'll be looking into those deluxe editions. I always found Waiting For Columbus overrated (a term I can't stand, but this, like the Band's live album have done very little for me despite their reputation.)
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Post by osgood on Apr 28, 2023 15:41:27 GMT
I would love to hear a live show from 72-73, so I'll be looking into those deluxe editions. I always found Waiting For Columbus overrated (a term I can't stand, but this, like the Band's live album have done very little for me despite their reputation.) I have American Cutie featuring a gig from 1973. Played it a couple of times and found it rather boring. Might give it another try. Same as Charlie, for me it's Shoes, Dixie and Feats where is at. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 28, 2023 16:07:32 GMT
I would love to hear a live show from 72-73, so I'll be looking into those deluxe editions. I always found Waiting For Columbus overrated (a term I can't stand, but this, like the Band's live album have done very little for me despite their reputation.) I am VERY curious to hear what the original quartet was like live. |
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