The song appears on the group’s Strike Up the Band
Little Feat drops a spectacular music video for new song “Shipwrecks,” which featured on their recently released studio album, Strike Up The Band, out now via Hot Tomato.
Little Feat continues to tour through the summer and host a three-day festival in Woodstock, New York for August 30th through September 1st with plans to record performances for a new live album.
At this point in its illustrious, nearly 60-year career, rock legends Little Feat could be excused if they wanted to take its proverbial foot off the gas. However, that wouldn’t be in Little Feat’s DNA. From the very first note of Strike Up The Band, you will hear Little Feat–who have been rocking and rolling since 1969– mean business.
Little Feat built a cult following in the late 60s and 70s for their pioneering gumbo of New Orleans rhythm-and-blues, country, hard-rock, funk and jazz. Celebrated as a key influence by icons from Bonnie Raitt to The Rolling Stones, yet commercial success remained at arms length. Songs like “Dixie Chicken,” “Spanish Moon,” “Fat Man in the Bathtub,” and “Rock and Roll Doctor” are legends in the rock and roll songbook. They have released a total of 16 studio albums and ten live albums to date. Through the ups and downs, love and loss, the line up shifts, and endless touring they have remained together and the closest of friends.
Their wilderness years, when the band were on periods of hiatus, are worth noting. A band who as individual musicians have collaborated with a laundry list of legends including Bob Dylan, Boz Scaggs, JJ Cale, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Buffett, Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Toto, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Stevie Nicks, Robert Palmer, Bob Weir, Mick Fleetwood, Phil Lesh, and others.
Their elastic line up has included the late great Lowell George, founding drummer, Richie Hayward, and guitarist Paul Barrere, and to this day features founding member Bill Payne on keys, alongside the classic line up of Fred Tackett on guitars/vocals, Kenny Gradney on bass, and Sam Clayton on percussion/vocals. They recently enlisted younger members Scott Sharrard on lead/vocal and Tony Leone on drums/vox which reinvigorated their creative spirits and live show.
Together with producer Vance Powell (Phish, Chris Stapleton, Jack White), and collaborators including Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, they created their new album, Strike Up The Band destined to be considered their later year magnum opus.
With a Grammy nomination for their recent album Sam’s Place, a newly announced national tour and much more in the works, Little Feat are not weathered statues in the hall of rock fame. They remain the collective and creative force they have always been. As they sang in 77’, “Time Loves A Hero,” and believe with Strike Up The Band, the mainstream recognition that has eluded Little Feat all these years, is now firmly in their grasp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB2rlvGo7S0
