Dixie Chicken - LITTLE FEAT***

Dixie Chicken/Two Trains/Roll Um Easy/On Your Way Down/Kiss It Off/Fool Yourself/Walkin' All Night/Fat Man In The Bathtub/Juliette/Lafayette Railroad

After several personnel changes since the last album the classic line up of Little Feat recorded Dixie Chicken. Although still commercially unsuccessful the change in the band’s style would soon gain them wider recognition.

“The songwriting is really great, and it is hard to pinpoint the band to a single genre since they shift their style a lot from song to song. They are all very catchy and enjoyable, and that’s really what matters the most here.”

“Thanks in large parts to a beefed up rhythm section Dixie Chicken sees the Feat ditch much of the blues influences so prevalent on the band's first two albums, instead dipping into the sounds and rhythms of New Orleans and the deep south to give the band a funkier, jazzier sound. Matched to the band's idiosyncratic arrangements and George's surrealistic lyrics and melodies, this makes for a unique and potent blend.”

“Dixie Chicken was a turning point in Feat's career, the first featuring the expanded six-piece line-up as they set apart the raw experimentalism and diverse textures of the first two LPs to concentrate more on an exotic stew of pop, funk and soul-laced boogie.”

“Little Feat change direction and exchange lots of the country rock surrealism that made their debut such an incredible record for mellow mid seventies jazz flourishes, faux southernisms, and FM pop hooks. The songs tend to veer in one of two ways: catchy Lowell George gems such as Dixie Chicken and Fat Man In The Bath Tub, or blasé exercises such as Juliette, sounding like a Fleetwood Mac outtake.”

“What makes this album a winner is the direction it pointed the group in. Never again would they be considered the non-southern, southern rock band. They became a funky groove machine that played all styles of music and played them well.”

“Almost every song on this southern-fried record is easy to enjoy, easy to tap your feet and bop along to. But it's Roll Um Easy that remains the most important tune in the mix; a lovely little ballad that opened up my ignorant ears to how beautiful country music can sound.”

“Often imitated, but never duplicated, The Feat serve up a spicy mix of delta blues, funk, and New Orleans party music with seamless transitions between styles.”