Little Feat do the WNEW Interview

It’s always great when a band you’ve loved for years puts together a collection of their greatest hits remixed and re-interpreted with their famous musical friends. It’s even better when it’s the legendary band Little Feat, who for 40 years have been cultivating a large number of fans and famous musician admirers. Their new album is called Join The Band and was born out of a documentary that the band was going to create, but never took shape. Sure, they taped lots of stuff with a lot of famous friends, but it seemed that a retrospective album came together faster than a documentary. Bill Payne & Paul Barrere stopped by the studio to explain how they chose the songs, listen up:

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When putting out an album like Join The Band and choosing music from the band’s history (as well as a few well placed covers) you have to take a look back at the roots of it all. Bill summed up their influences and how they helped shape the band’s sound. Listen up:

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Jimmy Buffet executive produced the album and the guys say he was instrumental in getting this album off the ground. And when you are the executive producer, you get to sing a few songs on the album too. Time Loves A Hero is a classic Little Feat song that Jimmy got to sing and has a really interesting back story as Bill explains:

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Here’s Time Loves A Hero from Join the Band:

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Mike Gordon was yet another collaborator on the album doing a version of the classic This Land Is Your Land. Phish were big fans of Little Feat and once tried to meet up with the band. Dig this story from Bill:

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Here’s This Land Is Your Land:

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The album has guest stars like Dave Matthews, Bob Seger, Bela Fleck, Brooks & Dunn, Chris Robinson, former Little Feat band member Craig Fuller, Vince Gill, Inara George (Lowell’s daughter), Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush, and Sonny Landreth in addition to Mike Gordon and Jimmy Buffett. The guys are on tour right now doing just a few dates between now and November 10th. If you want to hear the whole Join The Band album with Bill & Paul taking you through every track, you might wanna check out AT&T blue room’s “BEST OF FEST” channel here this Saturday (10/25). The show is about an hour and a half long and will repeat on the channel every 2 hours all day long.

Here’s the tour dates:

Friday, October 24th, 2008
Fitzgerald Theatre
St. Paul, MN
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The Pageant
St. Louis, MO
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Aladdin Theater
Portland, OR
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Moore Theatre
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Rio Theatre
Santa Cruz, CA
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
The Coach House
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
House Of Blues
West Hollywood, CA
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Belly Up Tavern
Solana Beach, CA