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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
A very readable and enjoyable overview of Little Feat which helped to create a solid narrative for me of their history.
A heavy focus on their leader Lowell George but also covering the reunion years too.
Hard to think there'll be many other similar books so this will probably stand as the definitive biography of one of America's finest bands.
A heavy focus on their leader Lowell George but also covering the reunion years too.
Hard to think there'll be many other similar books so this will probably stand as the definitive biography of one of America's finest bands.
A very detailed and well researched book. Feat fans will not be disappointed.
I am being generous, only because I did learn some things about Little Feat. The prose, however, is like an extended length Rolling Stone magazine article. It is also very much dumbed down, apparently aimed at an audience of dullards with only the musical knowledge to differentiate Aretha Franklin from Benjamin Franklin. For example, every time someone is mentioned as an A&R man, it has to be explained that this is a “talent agent”. There is only superficial analysis of the actual music, amounting to little more than labeling a piece as “rock”, “country”, “ballad”, or “boogie”. There are occasional one-word comments or exclamations, because, I guess, this is supposed to sound hip; it doesn’t. No fault of the band, great both with and without Lowell George, but this book was a major disappointment. It really deserves no more than two stars.