Little Feat-Sailin' Shoes (1972)


 

Artist: Little Feat

Title: Sailin' Shoes

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

Cat #: BS 2600

Year of Release: 1972

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1972 promo sticker on cover

Listed Condition: G+/VG

Sell Date: 12/6/20

Discogs Last Sold: 11/13/20  VG+/VG+ $15.00

Low: $5.00 VG+/G+

Median: $11.73

High:  $16.00 NM/VG

Current low price: $5.99 G+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1

Have/Want: 90/82

Where Sold: Beaverton, OR

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA Al-Bums $3.99 early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

This is one of those weird albums for me I bought used in the pre-CD era.  One that I acknowledged was great on the initial listen, played it once, filed it away, never replaced it on CD.  "Easy To Slip" and the redo of "Willin'" are the only songs I really internalized all these years.  

Listening to this on the computer a second time as I write this, after listening to the promo vinyl I sold on headphones last night, I have to say I may go down a Little Feat rabbit hole.  For whatever  reason Lowell George is grabbin me on many levels.  That voice is gorgeously raw, hitting that part of my brain that Dylan in the Rolling Thunder hits.  Oddly enough it was Theme Time Radio Hour, Dylan's radio show, that got me into "Willin'" about 10 years ago, but it didn't translate into me listening to this album.  In fact, I spaced on the fact that this version was a redo, and I listened to the first one which I also had .

This is such a weird band.  You would think it was "southern rock," but they are not just another band from LA.  Lowell George came from Zappa's Mothers and keyboardist Bill Payne failed an audition for them.  Boogie rock with some edge, as was Skynyrd initially, before the genre got regionalized, corporatized and subsumed by country conservatism.  These guys flew the flag of "weed, whites and wine."  George flew that flag to the grave in 1979.

1972 being the year of Exile On Main Street, it must be noted that there are some tracks on this that can stand with the Stones in feel and attitude.  "Cold Cold Cold," "Got No Shadow" and the especially the closer "Texas Rose Blues" all more than do the job.

Loaded was a reoccuring theme.  The second side opening title track is a straight up heartfelt tribute to cocaine.  So emphatic and emotionally well done you'd expect the music industry to be planning a 50 year in showbiz salute to puttin' on Sailin' Shoes in 2022.  

I bet that's the plan, man.

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