Join the Band by Little Feat
Original Release Date: August 26, 2008
1. Fat Man In the Bathtub - (featuring Dave Matthews)
2. Something In the Water - (featuring Bob Seger)
3. Oh Atlanta - (featuring Chris Robinson)
4. Sailin' Shoes - (featuring Emmylou Harris)
5. Time Loves a Hero - (featuring Jimmy Buffett)
6. Dixie Chicken - (featuring Vince Gill)
7. Willin - (featuring Brooks & Dunn)
8. Champion of the World - (featuring Jimmy Buffett)
9. This Land is Your Land - (featuring Mike Gordan)
10. Trouble - (featuring Inara George)
11. Don't Ya Just Know It
12. Spanish Moon - (featuring Vince Gill)
13. Weight, The - (featuring Bela Fleck)
14. See You Later Alligator
Dave Matthews, Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, Bob Seger, Brooks & Dunn,
Emmylou Harris and Chris Robinson (from the Black Crowes) guest star
with Little Feat on the new album Join the Band. Join the Band is, in
many ways, a summing up of all that s preceded it. Bill Payne has said
it was about locating their influences. In some ways, it do***ents the
way Little Feat influenced the musicians who have listened to them.
And it certainly do***ents a musical career.
USA Today - May 30, 2008
Join the band: The influential Little Feat
Little Feat songs such as Dixie Chicken and Fat Man in the Bathtub
have influenced a couple of generations of rock and country musicians.
Some of those musicians got a taste of playing with the group on the
new Feat album, out Aug. 26.
Join the Band, much of which was recorded at Jimmy Buffett's
Shrimpboat Sound studio in Key West features new versions of many of
Little Feat's best-known songs. They include Chicken (with Vince Gill
and slide guitarist Sonny Landreth), Oh Atlanta (with the Black
Crowes' Chris Robinson) and Trouble (with original frontman Lowell
George's daughter Inara).
One highlight is a new take on Fat Man with Dave Matthews on vocals.
"Matthews was the first guy other than Jimmy to sign up," says Feat
keyboardist Billy Payne. "He did about 18 vocals, which was pretty
amazing. When Dave Matthews tackles something, he doesn't leave much
to error or to chance."
"I wanted to be able to share, with people who knew us or didn't know
us, what was our relation****p in regard to influences," Payne says.
"The music industry is set up in such a fa****on now that it's really
tough to tell how those things happen, but it widens the circle of
your knowledge. It keeps life interesting. It keeps music and the arts
interesting." -Brian Mansfield
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