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Join the Band | 
 enlarge | Artist: Little Feat
Label: 429 Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 520
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 17735
UPC: 795041773524
EAN: 0795041773524
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Fat Man In The Bathtub - featuring Dave Matthews and Sonny Landreth | | • | Something In The Water - featuring Bob Seger | | • | Dixie Chicken - featuring Vince Gill and Sonny Landreth | | • | See You Later Alligator - featuring Jim Mayer | | • | Champion of the World - featuring Jimmy Buffett | | • | The Weight - featuring Bela Fleck and Mike Utley | | • | Don't Ya Just Know It | | • | Time Loves A Hero - featuring Jimmy Buffett | | • | Willin' - featuring Brooks and Dunn | | • | This Land is Your Land | | • | Oh Atlanta - featuring Chris Robinson | | • | Spanish Moon - featuring Vince Gill | | • | Trouble - featuring Inara George | | • | Sailin' Shoes - featuring Emmylou Harris | | • | (Bonus) I Will Play for Gumbo featuring Sam Bush |
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Product Description
Little Feat's new release showcases the very best of their 40 year long career with a stellar list of guest stars (Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Chris Robinson, Bob Seger, Vince Gill, Bela Fleck, Brooks and Dunn, Sonny Landreth, Mike Gordon (Phish), Jim Mayerand Inara George (Bird and the Bee)), capturing all the energy of one of rock's great live bands.
Album Description
Little Feat's 2008 release "Join The Band" showcases the very best of their 40-year long career with a stellar list of guest stars, (Jimmy Buffet, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Chris Robinson, Bob Seger, Vince Gill, Bela Fleck, Brooks & Dunn, Sonny Landreth, Mike Gordon, Jim Mayer, & Inara George), capturing the energy of one of Rock's great live bands!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Exploration Culmination August 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Since Little Feat re-formed after a 10-year hiatus following the death of cofounder Lowell George, the band has expanded its repertoire in a variety of directions. Join The Band is the culmination of decades of exploration and collaboration (without undue alliteration). What JTB lacks in new original material it makes up for with fresh makeovers of classics, along with Featerized covers displaying enormous range and virtuosic musicianship. These sessions were hosted by Jimmy Buffett in his Shrimp Boat Sound studio in Key West, and there is a laid-back feel on some tracks. But there's also a freewheeling vibe -- it sounds like making this album was a boatload of fun.
Among the Feat classics, Dave Matthews growls and yowls through a slow but soulful Fat Man in the Bathtub, and Sonny Landreth pays tribute to Lowell's legendary slide guitar on Dixie Chicken -- the shortest serving since 1973. The funky Spanish Moon is more stretched out. Vocals are shared by Feat percussionist Sam "Big Willie Johnson" Clayton, former Feat singer Craig Fuller and guest Vince Gill. The spooky jam is as close as JTB gets to the live Feat sound. On the other hand, the much loved and covered Willin' gets the full country flavor of Brooks & Dunn. If they still have jukeboxes in truckstops, this version is made to order.
The highlight in the remake category is Sailin' Shoes. The first section sounds familiar, with a surprisingly earthy Emmylou Harris trading vocals with an inspired Shaun Murphy. Then it accelerates into the up-tempo version originated by bluegrass wizard Sam Bush on fiddle, joined by Bela Fleck on banjo and Featster Fred Tackett on mandolin. If they don't get your toes tappin', please consult a physician immediately.
It's tough to mention only a few of the great covers. Something in the Water, with Bob Seger singing at full throttle, is the hardest rocker. The rollicking Don't Ya Just Know It has been showing up on Feat set lists. A couple of others have been live Feat staples for years, starting with The Weight. This is a tremendous recording, with kudos to Feat keyboardist Bill Payne. Just as The Band original had Garth Hudson's organ overlaid by Richard Manuel's piano, Bill has that sweet Hammond swooping under his amazing piano. It's also ideally suited for Paul Barrere's voice. The Weight may be an impossible song to screw up, but here it is sublime.
Another live staple is This Land Is Your Land. There is no better example of what makes Little Feat one of the great American bands. This is not the folky sing-around-the-campfire tune I taught fifth graders to play on guitar. It's a funky, full throated tour de force, with nasty acoustic slide work from Paul and Shaun singing her heart out. In the months after 9/11, the live performances were tearjerkers for more than a few of us. I would give a lot to see the look on Woody Guthrie's face at the sound of the Feat's take.
If you are new to Little Feat or want to introduce a friend, Join the Band is a great place to start. If you're a featfan wary of a release with no new material, don't make the mistake of passing this one up. It's got lumped into the classic rock category, for understandable reasons, but I think of it as Americana: rock and jazz, funk and blues, country and bluegrass... it's all here and it's all uniquely Little Feat.
Big Feat for Little Feat August 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great to see these guys are still making music and nothing can better testify to their legacy as the callibur of special guests - Dave Matthews, Bob Seger, Mike Gordon, Chris Robinson, Jimmy Buffett, Inara George - WOW!
The best of the summer August 26, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a great surprise to see this collection from one of THE great seminal bands of the 70's. Superb new treatments of the greats like Dixie Chicken, Willin', Oh Atlanta, and Time Loves a Hero, and other chestnuts from the era like This Land is Your Land and The Weight. With help from the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, Dave Matthews, Sonny Landreth, Chris Robinson, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck, and Brooks and Dunn, this will be one of the most listenable releases this summer. If you just like to listen how far good material can go in the hands of great artists, the collection is a must.
Great and Lots of Fun! August 26, 2008
This album is amazing!
Little Feat is one of the hardest working bands out there and it's awesome that they were able to secure such an impressive list of guest stars!
Everyone loves Little Feat and this album shows the lengths that A- Listers will go for this band!
Previous hits are made new again, while honoring the memory of Lowell George as the band goes on! "Fat Man in the Bathtub" is the breakout track, along with Bob Seger performing "Something in the Water" Inara George also does a beautifully, haunting "Trouble."
Join the Band is for new and old Feat fans alike!
Excellent August 26, 2008
This cd rocks and does Little Feat proud. Dave Matthews track is awesome. I'm a huge Little Feat fan and am more than psyched about this long over-due release.
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