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Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)

Posted By: Designol
Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)

Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 423 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Scans ~ 79 Mb | 01:09:46
Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Boogie Rock | Label: Warner Bros. | # 3538-2

Perhaps realizing that Down on the Farm wasn't the proper swan song for Little Feat, the group persuaded Warner Brothers to release a compilation of rarities and overlooked tracks as a swan song and farewell to fans. Filled with live performances, obscurities, album tracks, and a new song apiece from Bill Payne and Paul Barrere, Hoy Hoy is a bit scattered, a bit incoherent, a little bewildering, and wholly delightful – a perfect summation of a group filled with quirks, character, and funk, traits which were as much a blessing as they were a curse. Hoy Hoy is one of those rare albums that may be designed for diehards – who else really needs radio performances, early recordings from before the band was signed, and outtakes, especially if they're surrounded by early album tracks? – but still is a great introduction for novices. That doesn't mean it's as good as such masterpieces as Sailin' Shoes, Dixie Chicken, or Waiting for Columbus, but it does capture the group's careening, freewheeling spirit, humor, and musical versatility, arguably better than any single album. That's one of the nice things compilations like this can do – they can summarize what a band was all about in a way a straight studio album couldn't. So, that's why it may be a good gateway into the band for novices, even though it's missing such essentials as "Willin'" and "Fat Man in the Bathtub," but it's truly for the dedicated, who will not only love the rarities (and these live cuts are hotter, on whole, than Columbus) but will savor the context.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

Little Feat were the archetypal cult band: inspired, turbulent, smart, experimental, deserving – and accident-prone. Their modest ambition was to warp and syncopate mere reality, using stop-start rhythms and slapstick-surreal lyrics. Out of an internal chemistry that led to almost as many breakups as albums, the group invented a zany South-West synthesis, via New Orleans, Memphis, Macon, Houston, Nashville, Tijuana and their native Los Angeles. Little Feat wrote witty, soulful songs and performed them better than anyone who dared attempt cover versions. Deejays and concert audiences loved them. Fellow musicians praised and imitated them.

Yet Little Feat's best LPs, Sailin' Shoes (1972) and Dixie Chicken (1973), hardly sold at all, and only a live double set, 1978's Waiting for Columbus, broke 500,000 in sales. By then, the band was already in decline. Keyboardist Bill Payne and guitarist Paul Barrère were writing tunes that tipped the group toward a less distinctive jazz-rock fusion (closer to its prime emulators, the Doobie Brothers), while Lowell George – Little Feat's founder, singer, slide guitarist and chief spirit–made a slow fade. In 1979, during a tour with his own band to promote an endlessly-in-the-making solo record, George died of a heart attack that may have been related to heavy drug use. The rest of Little Feat finished up some tapes that were in the works, released them as Down on the Farm and retired the Little Feat name.

Like most Seventies groups, however, Little Feat were well-documented with demos, live broadcast tapes and studio outtakes. Since the band's following has, if anything, grown since George's death, it's only logical that a from-the-archives album would appear. Hoy-Hoy!, compiled by Barrère, Payne and Little Feat engineer George Massenburg, isn't a best-of or a reunion, though it does include a new number each by Payne and Barrère. It's mostly a fond, trivia-laden memorial that adds more evidence to George's contradictory madman-perfectionist myth.

To a cultist, the discarded outtakes illuminate the way Lowell George worked. Except for a live "Red Streamliner" that beats the studio track on Time Loves a Hero, the takes George chose for Little Feat LPs were less cluttered and more kinetic than the alternates. He knew what he wanted: the kind of space that sets each part of a song in relief. Instead of using a horn section to pound home the hooks, as the Tower of Power boys do here in a live "Skin It Back," George used silence and rhythm. What make the alternate takes worthwhile are the clearer lyrics ("The Fan"), the singing ("Rock and Roll Doctor") and the slide solos ("Two Trains"), which suggest that Lowell George never wasted a note anywhere. George also sings four tunes that never made it onto Little Feat records: Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller's "Framed," Hank Williams' "Lonesome Whistle," a deranged early version of "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" and a gospel-style tribute to heroin, "China White." They only add up to something morbid if you insist on making connections.

Cultists always want more, of course. I'd rather hear more demos and more early Little Feat instead of three previously released album tracks ("Strawberry Flats," "Easy to Slip," "Forty-Four Blues") or Linda Ronstadt's brave attempt at "All That You Dream." And there are rumors of Little Feat songs so unsavory that they still haven't made it to vinyl (e.g., "Bag of Reds"). But Hoy-Hoy! intends to be affectionate, hardly definitive: not a last gasp but, in the Little Feat tradition, a last laugh.

Review by Jon Pareles, RollingStone (RS 355)

Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)



Tracklist:

01. Rocket In My Pocket (0:51)
02. Rock And Roll Doctor (3:13)
03. Skin It Back (4:43)
04. Easy To Slip (3:21)
05. Red Streamliner (4:59)
06. Lonesome Whistle (3:29)
07. Front Page News (4:51)
08. The Fan (6:16)
09. Forty-Four Blues (3:18)
10. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (1:27)
11. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Live Version) (4:05)
12. Framed (2:45)
13. Strawberry Flats (2:21)
14. Gringo (6:33)
15. Over The Edge (4:20)
16. Two Trains (3:21)
17. China White (3:14)
18. All That You Dream (4:49)
19. Feets Don't Fail Me Now (1:52)


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Little Feat / Hoy-Hoy! (1981)

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Analyzed: Little Feat / Hoy-Hoy! (1981)
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DR12 -1.47 dB -16.60 dB 3:13 02-Rock And Roll Doctor
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DR12 -2.35 dB -17.07 dB 3:29 06-Lonesome Whistle
DR15 0.00 dB -17.12 dB 4:51 07-Front Page News
DR12 -3.31 dB -17.13 dB 6:16 08-The Fan
DR12 -3.56 dB -16.80 dB 3:18 09-Forty-Four Blues
DR12 -4.05 dB -17.32 dB 1:27 10-Teenage Nervous Breakdown
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DR12 -4.18 dB -18.30 dB 2:45 12-Framed
DR12 -2.91 dB -16.34 dB 2:21 13-Strawberry Flats
DR14 -2.07 dB -19.04 dB 6:33 14-Gringo
DR14 -0.02 dB -16.31 dB 4:20 15-Over The Edge
DR12 -2.98 dB -18.21 dB 3:21 16-Two Trains
DR12 -2.27 dB -18.05 dB 3:14 17-China White
DR13 -1.50 dB -16.85 dB 4:49 18-All That You Dream
DR12 -3.34 dB -19.35 dB 1:52 19-Feets Don't Fail Me Now
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Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)

Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy! (1981)

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