Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero [1977] [h33t] [Robbie60] [FLAC]

Little Feat Time Loves A Hero Label: Warner Bros Released: 1977 Source: Original CD Size Torrent: 206 MB Format: FLAC Nevermind that Lowell George and Little Feat sprang from the soil of Frank Zappa. Nevermind their strong affiliation with all southern styles of music at the time. No matter how you add it up, fact is Little Feat's sound had been carefully swinging in this general direction for a very long time. For all intents and purposes this is Little Feat's funkiest album. That had always been a part of their music. In the late 70's the LA pop scene was changing flavors; where its main stock in trade in the early part of the decade had been a strong country rock flavor (the arena that Little Feat started in) by this point the focus had very gone over towards a jazzier funk sound. The Doobie Brothers were leading the way and, if they could do it well so could Little Feat. Both bands debuted the same year so it only seemed natural for both of them to be inspired in a similar way. However George was not motivated by any huge need to sell records. Musical quality that could flow in a very creative way onto the live stage was the focus so the idea here was to make sure that,if the funk be the food of life than they must play on. "Hi Roller" gets everything started in the most spectacular way possible with a purpulsive, hard driving groove that is nasty as it wants to be. Who said a rock band can't play funk anyhow? Or that Little Feat were even a "rock" band at all for that matter. The title song and the witty "Old Folks Boogie" are the only tunes on the album that really point more to the Big Easy style R&B of their older concoctions and, on the latter with some social satire that most will probably find hysterically chuckle inducing. "Rocket In My Pocket" again kicks out the heavy funk and unlike a lot of rock bands (then and now) obsessed only with the natural end of the genre. Little Feat they have Billy Payne, a classicly trained pianist with electric keyboards and synths much like Bernie Worrell who colors the music in all the right places with his playing and accents. On "Red Streamliner" and "Keepin' Up With The Joneses" there is a tough funk/rock edge to it all but all the same there is a vital focus on the song and not just the jam keep the music from plodding whatsoever. "New Delhi Freight Train" is one of the strongest tunes here and trust me: Every tune here is super strong anyway. But this one has some heavy jazz touches and features some vocal harmonies by Michael McDonald. In terms of jazz nothing much beats the frenetic instrumental workout "Day At The Dog Races". Not only is the jazz-funk-fusion side of Zappa more than a little obvious as an influence but the drumming has the advantage of being progressive and tight. It seems like an impossibility but somehow they made it happen. The album closes with the brief country rock tune "Missin' You", a bit of a back handed nod to their past. Within a 36 minute space this album packs more energy, drive and groove into each moment than many other albums reliant more on extended runs. If there is a better hallmark that could be borrowed from mid 70's funk I don't know it yet. Andre Grindle Personnel Paul Barrère - guitar, vocals Sam Clayton - congas, percussion, vocals Lowell George - vocals, guitar Kenny Gradney - bass Richie Hayward - drums, percussion, vocals Bill Payne - keyboards, synthesizer, marimba, vocals Additional Personnel Greg Adams - trumpet Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - dobro (track 9) Emilio Castillo - tenor saxophone Mic Gillette - trombone, trumpet Stephen "Doc" Kupka - baritone saxophone Michael McDonald - vocals (track 6) Lenny Pickett - alto saxophone and tenor saxophone Patrick Simmons - guitar (track 7), vocals (track 6) Fred Tackett - mandocello and guitar (track 2) Track Listing 1."Hi Roller" (Paul Barrère) – 3:35 2."Time Loves a Hero" (Barrère, Kenny Gradney, Bill Payne) – 3:47 3."Rocket in My Pocket" (Lowell George) – 3:25 4."Day at the Dog Races" (Barrère, Sam Clayton, Gradney, Richie Hayward, Payne) – 6:27 5."Old Folks Boogie" (Barrère) – 3:31 6."Red Streamliner" (Payne, Fran Tate) – 4:44 7."New Delhi Freight Train" (Terry Allen) – 3:42 8."Keepin' up With the Joneses" (Barrère, George) – 3:51 9."Missin' You" (Barrère) – 2:21

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 vtwin88cube (2011-02-15)

Welcome aboard :)

 rjordan21 (2011-02-15)

Hey, thanks for all the "Little Feat Flac"....say that 10 time fast.
I see you started uploading a few days ago. Welcome! It looks like these are your own rips which is very cool. Maybe you could include the .LOG file from whatever program you used to rip? EAC, dBpoweramp, etc. I know alot of people like to see that, gives a more "complete" picture of the rip. But whatever man.... do what you want!
Thanks again for all the good (new) music!

Robbie6ty (2011-02-15)

Well, thanks for your comments, not all my rips contain logfiles. Some of them have been ripped some time ago using MediaMonkey. I did not bother to make logfiles then. All my more recent rips have been made using EAC or DbPoweramp and they have logfiles as well as scans.

 rjordan21 (2011-02-15)

^^^^ very cool. Keep up the great uploads!