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The Long Goodbye

jcd | 09/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"W.H. Auden said a hallmark of great artists is that they go through multiple significant career phases. Shakespeare, Beethoven, etc. But the trick if you're a rock band is that you've generally got to pull it off in six or eight years, before the drugs and the mania do you in. The Beatles, absolutely. Neil Young and the Horse, no doubt. Joni Mitchell...and, yes, Little Feat. Sailin' Shoes is incomparably fresh and crazy, Dixie Chicken both newly-funky and successfully ambitious, and The Last Record Album (in fact the last LF album before Lowell George's sad early death) is really great Rock Noir. This band is world-weary, road-weary and coked-over, but wiser and deeper in the groove for it. Dark, affecting, soulful and often just plain lovely--a fantastic record."

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C. Taylor | little rock | 07/14/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this disc. I have always loved this disc since I originally owned the record. Maybe it's just my nostalgia. I dunno. I had a lot of good times listening to this stuff. This is a fine group of musicians playing some sophisticated grooves. I'm not going to over analyze this stuff with a bunch of adjectives, say Lowell George was this or that by 1977, critique each individual track or compare this to any of the other Feat discs because I love this recording. Plain and simple, this disc is good from start to finish. Anyone that says different is just a musical snob. Oh yeah, Richie Hayward is one of the most under appreciated drummers on the planet. This disc is a steal for the price."