Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Late Show

Yesterday, I posted Little Feat's early show at the Ebbets Field venue in Denver, in 1973. This is the late show.

As I mentioned in my write-up for the early show, it seems this one was the one that was actually broadcast live on a local radio station at the time. The emcee at the end of the early show told the people leaving they could hear the late show with their car radios as they drove home. But this show lacks the usual expected encore because the band was opening for Zephyr, and had run out of time. (Zephyr broke up around 1970, but did a few reunion shows in the Denver area around this time.)

There's some overlap in song selection between the early shows and late shows, with five songs being played in both. But five songs were only played in the early show: "Hamburger Midnight," "On Your Way Down," "Willin'," "Cold, Cold, Cold," and "Fat Man in the Bathtub." Meanwhile, six songs were only played in the late show: "A Apolitical Blues," "The Fan," "Texas Rose Cafe," "Snakes on Everything," "Cat Fever," and "Sailin' Shoes."

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Little Feat)
02 A Apolitical Blues (Little Feat)
03 Two Trains (Little Feat)
04 Got No Shadow (Little Feat)
05 The Fan (Little Feat)
06 talk (Little Feat)
07 Texas Rose Cafe (Little Feat)
08 talk (Little Feat)
09 Snakes on Everything (Little Feat)
10 talk (Little Feat)
11 Cat Fever (Little Feat)
12 talk (Little Feat)
13 Walkin' All Night (Little Feat)
14 talk (Little Feat)
15 Sailin' Shoes (Little Feat)
16 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
17 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
18 talk (Little Feat)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Cor6zSPJrrheyHK/file

The cover image focusing on band member Lowell George is from an episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show, broadcast on August 9, 1974. I wanted to have a picture of the band in 1973, but there were surprisingly few of those, and none that were very good. I used the same source for the early show.

Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show

Next up from the Ebbets Fields radio broadcasts is Little Feat. They did an early show and a late show, so naturally I'm starting with the early show.

I've already posted a couple of Little Feat albums, so I won't say much more about them here. But note that this was from relatively early in the band's history, before they became very famous. Near the start of 1973, they released their third album, "Dixie Chicken." It was their first album to go Gold in the U.S., which means sales of half a million. But I'm guessing most of those sales didn't happen until later, when the band's growing popularity caused some people to discover their earlier albums, because the album didn't make the charts at all.

Interestingly, you can hear by the emcee speaking at the end of this recording that the band was actually the opening act for Zephyr. (They probably were much less well know nationwide, but they were based in Denver and played there a lot, so they were local favorites.) Also, it seems only the late show sets of both Little Feat and Zephyr were actually broadcast on the radio. But somehow this recording survived too, probably due to Little Feat's later fame. 

In fact, I'd say these early and late shows by Little Feat are some of the most popular of all the Ebbets Fields recordings. There are very few concert recordings of this sound quality from this early in the band's career. But the recordings, going under names like "American Cutie" and "Late Night Truck Stop," are grey market releases. That means they exploit a loophole in European copyright law allowing for their legal sale in Europe, but the musical act doesn't get any of the profits. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Hamburger Midnight (Little Feat)
02 Got No Shadow (Little Feat)
03 talk (Little Feat)
04 On Your Way Down (Little Feat)
05 talk (Little Feat)
06 Walkin' All Night (Little Feat)
07 talk (Little Feat)
08 Two Trains (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat)
10 Willin' (Little Feat)
11 talk (Little Feat)
12 Cold, Cold, Cold (Little Feat)
13 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
14 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
15 talk (Little Feat)
16 Fat Man in the Bathtub (Little Feat)
17 talk (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rRobHZAk 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hPVtW7HbErXX0zn/file

The cover image focusing on band member Lowell George is from an episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show, broadcast on August 9, 1974. I wanted to have a picture of the band in 1973, but there were surprisingly few of those, and none that were very good.

Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 12-8-1988

Here's the second and last Little Feat BBC album that I've found. Like the first one, it's a concert. It also features Bonnie Raitt playing on a few songs, and even sharing lead vocals on a couple of them.

At the end of the 1970s, Little Feat broke up. They also lost their main musical force, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Lowell George, who died in 1979. But the regrouped with the album "Let It Roll." Not only was it a surprise hit, but they actually had more commercial success than ever before. It contained two big hit songs, " Hate to Lose Your Lovin'" and "Let It Roll." I was just watching an NFL Thursday Night Football game last night, and the show played part of "Let It Roll" as background music at one point, showing how that song has become an establish classic. 

I think the key to their resurgence was Craig Fuller. You may not have heard of him, but he's a very talented songwriter. For instance, he wrote "Amie," a hit by the Pure Prairie League in 1972. He joined Little Feat when they reunited, and cowrote eight out of ten songs on their "Let It Roll" album. He also became one of the band's main lead vocalists. He stayed with the band until 1993, and occasional reunions after that. 

Anyway, the typical version of this concert bootleg is just short of an hour long. The BBC often cut concerts down to that length to make it fit an hour-long radio show time slot. But I found one version that was longer - an extra 40 minutes. I also found a set list of the correct song order, and saw the longer version had a scrambled song order. So I put the concert back pretty close to the correct order. ("Down on the Farm" is slightly out of place.)

As I mentioned above Bonnie Raitt was a guest star on some songs. For four songs, she played slide guitar and sometimes sang backing vocals. But for two songs, "Man Size Job" and "Rock and Roll Doctor," she shared lead vocals. Check the song list for the songs she was on, because she came and went from the stage multiple times. Note that Raitt has a long history with Little Feat, as she absolutely loves that band. For instance, I've also posted an episode of the "Midnight Special" from 1977 when she performed with the band then as well.

Here's a random side note. For years, I've been using the program TagScanner to help with making the mp3 tags and fixing the file names for the albums in my music collection. I've never had any notable problem with the program in all that time, except for one weird quirk: any time I have a song with "Little Feat" in the name, and I save a change, it changes it to "Little feat" (lower case "f"). Every single damn time! If I try "Little Fead" or anything else similar? No problem. Just the exact spelling of "Little Feat" specifically. And it's never happened with any other musical act name. It's so bizarre! Would anyone have an explanation for this? (Luckily, I also use a second program, called Mp3tag, so I fixed this problem in that program.) 

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. 

01 Fat Man in a Bathtub (Little Feat)
02 Spanish Moon (Little Feat)
03 talk (Little Feat)
04 All that You Dream (Little Feat)
05 talk (Little Feat)
06 Cajun Girl (Little Feat)
07 Down on the Farm (Little Feat)
08 Hate to Lose Your Lovin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
09 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
10 talk (Little Feat)
11 Man Size Job (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
13 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Little Feat)
15 Let It Roll (Little Feat)
16 talk (Little Feat)
17 Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat)
18 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
19 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
20 Willin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
21 Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
22 talk (Little Feat)
23 Apolitical Blues (Little Feat)
24 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat) 

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/EV2oJrVtpbvtSoZ/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in 1988. I believe one band member got cropped out because he was way to the side. I would have liked to use a photo of the band with Bonnie Raitt from this time, but I couldn't find any like that except from the 1970s. To be honest, it was hard to even find a decent photo of the band from around 1988 at all.

Little Feat with Tower of Power - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, L'Olympia, Paris, France, 2-3-1975

Here's a BBC concert album from the band Little Feat. It took place when they were at or near their musical prime, in 1975. It also contains a short opening set by the band Tower of Power.

This concert was a popular bootleg for a long time, ever since people recorded it off the radio. In 2024, the Little Feat portion was finally officially released, as extra tracks on the deluxe edition of the band's 1974 album "Feats Don't Fail Me Now." I used that recording for that portion of the concert. However, I was surprised to discover that recording has a serious flaw (and one not shared with the Tower of Power section), in that the vocals were quite low in the mix. So I brought the vocals back up to where they should have been, to match the Tower of Power section, using the MVSEP program. So now this should sound better than it ever has sounded before.

The Tower of Power section is 20 minutes long, while the Little Feat portion is 55 minutes long. The Tower of Power section is still unreleased. The sound quality is excellent throughout.

There's been some contradictory information about when this concert took place. I've seen some sources say February 1st, while others say February 3rd. When I first posted this, I had it as February 1st. But then I was sent some more information by a commenter, and that swayed me to change it to February 3rd just one day later. 

Note that I found a second BBC concert Little Feat did much later, so this is "Volume 1." I hope to post "Volume 2" soon as well.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 Only So Much Oil in the Ground (Tower of Power)
02 talk (Tower of Power)
03 Don't Change Horses [In the Middle of a Stream] (Tower of Power)
04 So Very Hard to Go (Tower of Power)
05 Knock Yourself Out (Tower of Power)
06 On Your Way Down (Little Feat)
07 Skin It Back (Little Feat)
08 Fat Man in the Bathtub (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat)
10 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat)
11 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
12 Cold, Cold, Cold - Dixie Chicken - Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
13 Willin' (Little Feat)
14 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mjp1qfbw

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/2prYxhk5LhIkhFm/file

The cover photo is from a TV show appearance in 1974. All I know it took place in Los Angeles. For the text, I found the band name logo with the font and colors shown here. I then used Photoshop to mimic the text for all the other writing.

Little Feat & Friends - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-10-1977

Here's a very interesting episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. The main host of the episode was the band Little Feat. But Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jesse Winchester were on the show too, and all four of these musical acts performed together in various combinations. 

If you've been paying attention at all to this blog in the last week or so (as I write this in late October 2025), you'll notice I've been posting a lot of albums based on Midnight Special episodes lately. So far, only the shows from 1973 to 1975 have been posted in high quality on YouTube, with a chronological rollout slowly continuing. But occasional shows from later years were already bootlegged. There aren't many cases of that, and most of them are incomplete and/or have lesser sound quality. But I found this one in full with excellent quality, so I've decided to post it already. No doubt it's survived as a bootleg when most other episodes didn't because of the special collaborations.

The musical acts mentioned above were not the only ones on the show. In addition, Neil Young appeared for one song, and Weather Report performed three songs. I didn't include the Young song, because it wasn't really from the episode, but it was a video of him performing "Like a Hurricane" at some unknown concert. Had he actually been there, I would have included it, and I'll bet he would have interacted with some of the others too. (Most likely Emmylou Harris, since she sang backing vocals on some of his songs right around this time.) As for Weather Report, I didn't include them because they didn't fit in musically with the others, and there was no collaboration between them and the others. This is another case where I feel less is more, by having musical cohesion to the album.

I took the music from a bootleg. But I patched in more applause at the ends of some songs to help smooth the transitions between songs. And there were edits to two songs. I edited Wolfman Jack's introduction to get rid of the mentions of Neil Young and Weather Report. "Rock and Roll Doctor" by Little Feat was more difficult. This was another case of the show ending in the middle of song. So I found a soundboard bootleg of a Little Feat from Kansas City in 1977, and used that version of "Rock and Roll Doctor" to finish off the last three minute or so.

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 Queen of the Silver Dollar (Emmylou Harris with Little Feat)
03 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt & Jesse Winchester)
04 talk (Little Feat)
05 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris)
07 Rhumba Man (Jesse Winchester)
08 Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat & Jesse Winchester)
10 I Can't Stand Up Alone (Jesse Winchester with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt)
11 talk (Jesse Winchester)
12 Home (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Little Feat)
14 Nothing but a Breeze (Jesse Winchester with Emmylou Harris)
15 Rocket in My Pocket (Little Feat)
16 My Songbird (Emmylou Harris)
17 Sugar Mama (Bonnie Raitt)
18 talk (Little Feat)
19 Rock and Roll Doctor [Edit] (Little Feat)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/B1Dw5Vdo0jkhFj3/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's actually a combination of two different screenshots. At one point in the YouTube video, the camera panned from Lowell George to Emmylou Harris, then to Bonnie Raitt. The three of them were never in the frame at the same time. But I was able to take the two screenshots and stitch them together to get all three of them together.

Various Artists - Lowell George Tribute Concert, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 8-4-1979

Lowell George was the lead guitarist and a key songwriter for the band Little Feat throughout the 1970s. In 1979, the band split up due to creative differences, and George released a solo album. He announced plans to restart the band with a slightly different line-up. But on June 29, 1979, while on tour to support his solo album, he died of a heart attack related to an accidental heroin overdose. He was only 34 years old. Only a couple of months after his death, a tribute concert was held in Los Angeles to celebrate his life and his music. Here is what remains available from that concert.

I'm posting this album almost entirely due to the efforts of musical friend Lil Panda. A couple of days ago (as I write this in August 2025), he sent me this concert out of the blue. He'd found a video from the concert on YouTube. The sound quality was fundamentally good, but had issues. I asked him what he did to fix it, and this was his reply: "Phase correction, azimuth adjustment, de-clicking, music rebalance (different for almost every song... trial and error), the repair assistant (vocal work), and spectral repair." So, thanks to his work, this should sound much better than ever before.

Furthermore, I made some additional changes, since I'm more willing to make changes to bootlegs if I think it improves the overall recording. I noticed some minor drop-outs here and there, usually only a second or less of silence. I patched those up when I found them. That's why three of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

In addition, the video did something strange with the songs "Running on Empty" and "All That You Dream." If you watch the video, they're edited to seem complete, but in fact both of them were edited way down, to less than two minutes long each. By sheer luck, the only officially released performance from this concert is "All That You Dream," from the Little Feat album "Hoy Hoy," and it's the entire song. So I used that instead. For "Running on Empty," most of the song except for the first verse and some of the end was missing. I used a different live version of this song, from the 1979 No Nukes concerts that I've posted elsewhere on this blog, to fill in the missing part of the song. But there are some differences between the versions, so you might notice the edits. Still, I prefer that over having a weirdly short version. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title too.

In addition, I made another edit to all the songs. That's because the video usually cut the cheering at the ends of the songs short, to just a couple of seconds. It didn't sound right to me. So I did some copying and pasting of cheering from one song to another until all the songs had a decent amount of applause. 

I found a 1979 New York Times article about the concert, so I know a little bit about it. Here's the article link (though it may not work for you if you don't have a subscription):

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/06/archives/pop-coast-tribute-to-lowell-george.html 

According to the concert, the proceeds from the concert were given to George's family. The concert lasted almost three hours. In addition to the big names included in this album, some others also took part, like Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Eric Kaz, Craig Fuller, J. D. Souther, Ted Tempelman, and the Tower of Power. But the video here is less than an hour long, and a lot got cut out. Either their roles were cut entirely or they only had minor roles. For instance, Michael McDonald sang back up on one song here, and the Tower of Power horns played on a few of the songs. Generally speaking, Little Feat was the backing band. But I didn't include them in most of the song credits because that would have made the song names longer and I didn't know for sure who played on which song.

The article states that some big musical stars, like Bob Dylan and the Eagles, wanted to perform at the concert as well. However, the surviving Little Feat band members who organized the concert decided to keep it to just the other musicians who knew George well. There also was pressure to have more than one concert, since interest was extremely high, but they decided not to go that route either.

The concert was filmed and recorded with the idea of later releasing an album or film of it. But so far, only that one song mentioned above has been officially released, on a Little Feat album. I've read on social media that it is believed the rest of the film footage has been lost. So this is probably all we're ever going to get. I couldn't even find any information about what other songs were performed, though there must have been many since this is only about one-third of the entire concert.

Thanks again to Lil Panda for digging this up, improving it, and sending it to me. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson)
02 Rhumba Girl (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt)
03 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
04 Runaway [Edit] (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
05 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
06 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
10 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
11 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
12 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
13 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
14 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/dwuvGZGMKED7Jiy/file

I had difficulty finding any decent photographs from this concert. There's an entire video of it on YouTube, as mentioned above, but the image quality is very low-res. I eventually found one image I was okay with, which I used as the cover. From right to left, it shows Nicolette Larson, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Linda Ronstadt. Souther's prominent role is a bit ironic, since he doesn't feature in the actual music here, due to whatever songs he was in not making it to the video. It kind of looks like I edited the photo to squish everyone close together, but in fact that's how it was in the original.

The image was still in pretty poor shape, so I tried to use the Krea AI program to improve it. But I could only do so much, so it's still rough. I also couldn't change the lighting that turned most everything orange, though I tried to make it more colorful.

Bonnie Raitt - Baby Mine - Non-Album Tracks (1988-1989)

Bonnie Raitt had one of the most dramatic late career popularity surges in the history of rock. To be honest, she never was that popular from the start of her career in the early 1970s until the late 1980s. She only had one Top 40 hit, a cover of "Runaway," in 1977. By the mid-1980s, a drug habit and changing musical trends meant she fell so low that she lost her record contract. She had to resume touring as a solo acoustic artist because she couldn't afford to pay a band. She turned 40 in 1989, which was practically the kiss of death for female musicians, given the usual focus on youth and beauty. But she kicked her drug habit and revitalized herself musically. Her 1989 album "Nick of Time" became an unexpected hit, selling five million copies and turning her into a musical superstar.

This stray tracks album covers the time of her musical rebirth. Most of the songs on it actually come before the release of "Nick of Time," but one can hear her musical revitalization throughout all of it. The second wind for her career began with the first song here, "Baby Mine," because during the recording of that song for a various artists compilation, she met producer Don Was of the band Was (Not Was). Was was produced "Nick of Time," and was instrumental in giving her the right production that allowed her to succeed so dramatically.

Raitt has always been very open to performing duets and other musical collaborations. There are a lot of those here. She collaborates with some of her very favorite musicians, like Little Feat, Dr. John, and NRBQ. Some of the songs come from other people's albums or various artists compilations, but more (seven out of the 12 songs) are from unreleased concert bootlegs. However, the sound on all of those are really good, probably soundboard recordings for most or all of them.

01 Baby Mine (Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was))
02 Somebody's on Your Case (Katie Webster & Bonnie Raitt)
03 Love Ain't No Triple Play (Dr. John & Bonnie Raitt with Bennie Wallace)
04 I'm Never Afraid [To Say What's on My Mind] (Bonnie Raitt)
05 El Salvador (Bonnie Raitt)
06 The End of the World (Bonnie Raitt & NRBQ)
07 The Last Time (Bonnie Raitt & NRBQ)
08 Man Sized Job (Bonnie Raitt with Little Feat)
09 Rock and Roll Doctor (Bonnie Raitt & Little Feat)
10 I'm in the Mood (John Lee Hooker with Bonnie Raitt)
11 Born in the Country (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Up the Country Blues [Ragtime Show] (Bonnie Raitt)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FEFhc3dW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/orS3GnU0MRXzsLJ/file

The cover art photo is of Raitt in concert in 1988. In 2025, I thought the image was still blurry and low-res, so I added detail with the Krea AI program.