50 YEARS: FEAT &

For Little Feat, the ‘Rock and Roll Doctor’ was in Hunt Valley in 1974

By John Lee, WYPR

Little Feat,Fletcher Moore

Little Feat in the '70s.Rhino Records / Warner Bros

50 years ago the band Little Feat came to Baltimore to record the album Feats Don’t Fail Me Now. The band was critically acclaimed but their first three records didn’t sell and they were on the verge of splitting up.

But a combination of luck, happenstance, raw talent and Charm City gave the rock and blues band what it needed to launch a successful run that continues to this day.

This story ends with a recording studio sinking into Baltimore’s inner harbor. But let’s start at the beginning.

Little Feat had been recording in Los Angeles, but it wasn’t working out and in 1974 they needed a change. Journalist Tony Moss interviewed the widow of the band’s leader, Lowell George about that.

Moss said, “Elizabeth, Lowell’s widow, said to me that it was good for them to get out of L.A., that L.A. had become not a great influence on the band for reasons which you can probably surmise.”

Moss was the first to go deep on how Little Feat ended up in Baltimore FINISH READING HERE

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