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  • This is faBULOUS~

  • love this one....oh yeah...back in the day....nothin finer!

  • hahahah Emmy is so awkwardly cute without a guitar!

  • 22 years old hearing this for the first time and dancing off da walls!

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • His voice sounds like he was singing to his best friends, and he was right

  • when music was fun...I had some of the best times of my life at Little Feat shows!

  • How anyone could give this a thumbs down is a sad shame. Those folks don't understand. Lowell George was a superstar, he just died before we realized it.

  • How anyone could give this a thumbs down is a sad shame. Those folks don't understand. Lowell George was a superstar, he just died before we realized it.

  • Right on...

  • Great video of some of the best rockers of the 70s

  • The FUCKIN' jam!

  • One of the better country/southern rock bands that was not a house hold name.They are like Wet Willie in a lot of ways with that funk thing going.

  • Who would like to Jack Black act as Lowell George for an epic movie :)

  • @bonzaitribe I have said the for a few years now. If he could pull together a serious performance and not be his usual self(although funny), that could be a water shed role for him. I just love that idea. He looks the part, can play the part, and is a bit wild too I am sure. it would be great.

  • @onehaastylemarine He could even pull off the vocals on live shots. :)

  • Greatest band ever. 

  • what the hell happened to the second verse?

    

  • Little Feat - America's way of saying sorry to Japan for nuking y'alls, never mind the earthquake

  • Lowell George was a freaking genius

  • slide guitar, bongos, singing drummer, real emotion, so much beauty -- and to think -- Little Feat wouldn't be able to make it in this day and age. makes you ill.

  • Happy birthday Lowell. You are truly missed.

    My favorite band with two of my all-time favorite female vocalists, it doesn't get any better.

    I used to watch Midnight Special all the time. I probably saw this but just took it for granted and forgot about this incredible performance. Thanks for bringing it back.

  • ...Matt Berry? I didn't know he was a Time Lord...

  • what a legendary band !!1, it was sad to hear that drummer Ritchie Hayward died , his drumming was nearly impossible to replicate ,..a great drummer in a band full of great musicians,I was lucky enough to see this band with Lowell George.... and Bonnie Raitt opened in 1976 at the Fox theatre in Atlanta ,a night I wont ever forget,

  • Bonnie is so warm and tawny, and Emmie Lou is so pale white with that long dark hair - they look like the spirits of Autumn and Winter personified - & both lovely

  • Ummmmm Lowell George.... Monster

  • Wow

  • One word  WOW..

  • So glad I was able to see Little Feat live, Bonnie Raitt was opening act; amazing night. Was supposed to be @ Red Rocks Amp. due to rain was at Nichols Arena, no matter the arena the sounds & atmosphere was great.

  • Bonnie AND Emmy Lou Harris! Yikes!

  • nice, but kinda disappointing that we can only see and not hear Emmy Lou and Bonnie.

  • Paul Barrerre was a fantastic guitarist, but Lowell's slide, vocals, and his song writing made little feat who they were--and I do give credit to the rest of the band. God I miss these guys!!!!!

  • good God almighty!!!!!

  • They could have turned the girls' mic up a bit!

  • classic

  • i wanna meet a southern belle

  • This tune had to be written by Jesse Winchester. I'm sure he gave it to Littel feet.

  • @johnsmith237 "Dixie Chicken" (Lowell George, Fred Martin)

  • @johnsmith237 "Dixie Chicken" (Lowell George, Fred Martin)

  • hold it! Bonnie Raitt AND Emmy Lou Harris on background vocals?! Holy shit Batman!!!

  • I miss Little Feat more than I miss being 10 years old....

  • Hey missegas CHOKE ON A DICK! If you can't respect feat or Lowell then go post on kid cudi's wall or something

  • awesome keyboards...

  • I saw Little Feat with Melissa Etheridge, when little feat came out they gave her a standing ovation, she backed them up on a couple songs later on, overall it was a great show - at Tanglewood in Lenox Massachusetts. They rarely let anybody any good play there any more, but that was a good one. Then again - that was a long time ago- over 20 years actually.

  • The Best. Bonnie and Emmy Lou as back up singer. Too great.

  • Lowell George had it. What a loss. Stupid drugs....

  • Those were the glory days of passionate musicians without any electronic gimmiks, but with hearts, soul and ears (and of course eyes for this sophisticated Ladies) playing one of my very favourite "Feat" - Songs - love this upload - thanks from slideede, berlin

  • if ul b my dixie chicken

    

  • Too bad the girls didn't come through better in the mix.

  • Feat at their best and some funky friends ...a big hand for all the girls and boys in the band !!

  • I love everything Lowell played, but do you notice how under-noticed is Paul Barrere? He was really driving the tune (well, along with the rest of the band) But Barrere played the main guitar licks. The camera just settled on Lowell, who was surfing (brilliantly) on the top of the wave.

  • @dingoswamphead

    Started listening to Little Feat in the 70's. I always saw Lowell as the inspiration until about 10 years ago when I suddenly understood that it was actually Barrere that was the soul of Little Feat.

  • I miss the days when amazing bands did mini-concerts on TV. Bring it back!

  • I always thought George was one of the most underrated/forgotten

     slide players.

  • One of the only bands to outlive their founder. RIP Lowell, the Rock n Roll Dr!

  • I might bring white overalls back.

  • Bonnie HOT HOT HOT

  • GREAT! Has a real Bluesy feel.

  • verrrry cool to see jesse winchester in that crowd.

  • hes my main man check my willin take out  leave a comment :)

  • cool!

  • Fun stuff

  • would be great if we could hear both guest ladies too !

  • Now, if that don't want to make you get a four piece spicy chicken and an order of red beans and rice then you is just too Yankee-fied. Bust my 'rhoids and sit me in alchohol!

  • oh, Bonnie and Emmylou are so young...

  • One of the greatest bands that ever lived.

    R.I.P. Richie Hayward.

    Can't help but tap my Feat listening to this mighty band.

  • One of the greatest bands that ever lived.

    R.I.P. Richie Hayward.

  • @MissEgasMoniz You do not meet any musicians that think this is dull. I have never met a musician that doesn't think this stuff is GREAT!

  • George sang an awful lot about hotels.

  • @unibrook Nothin like a good old hotel in a good old rock and roll song.

  • the best american band ever ever ever ever!!!!!!

  • songs like this remind how shitty music now a days really is ....this sounds so good ..its like medicine

  • Yes! Jack Black needs to do a lowell George Movie!

  • @EddieAlexanderRocks lol they do look a lot alike lowell was way more talented though

  • Love it. I Just saw Little Feat in Lexington KY, different band members, some older but music still rocks !

  • This sounds like my life Pro Se Law

    Mississippi River

    Great River Chapter

  • This sure is a goodie!

  • Excellent band....does anyone else think that Jack Black bears an uncanny resemblance to the late great Lowell George?

  • In 1977 I saw Linda Ronstadt in Columbus, Ohio. She sang a couple Little Feat songs and was totally plugging them saying they were "the best band in America."

    Next day I went out and bought two of their albums...been hooked ever since.

    Thanks for uploading.

  • What a great fun song by an awesome band, Emmy as angelic as always.

    Tanks posting.

  • they were like an undeground grateful dead,..

  • Emmylou braless under that L.L. Bean :)

  • @robertschelly Ahhhh, the seventies :P

  • FEATS!

  • This is like when all the cops are at one crime scene - there is so much talent on that little stage that there could not have been talent found anywhere else at that moment!!! And dang... Emmylou! WIsh I'd been old enough to know!!!

  • saw liyyle feat in denver/bonnie rait also in denver rich m

  • Richie Heyward and Lowell need a bass player now.... 

  • @flooberbloob i'll learn to play and step in front of a moving bus if it means i can meet Lowel and Richie.

  • just got some sad news today ..... Richie Hayward, L.F.'s great, great, drummer, passed away not too long ago. RIP Richie.. and thanks for all the great music.

  • Little Feat have always been one of my Favs of all time. Same with Bonnie Riatt, Susan Tedeschi, The Derek Trucks Band, and skynard, Allman Brothers. All music like this is soooo underated it's sad !!!! Todays pop culture doesn't know music the way it's meant to be.

  • one of the greatest rock bands of all time

  • Like the song says: "guess that guitar player sure could play". Just a great, great band. Very sad to read about the recent passing of drummer Richie Hayward, August 2010. Always so much going in every Little Feat song, and Hayward kept everyone together. Apparently a terrific guy to boot, he will certainly be missed.

  • R.I.P. Richie Hayward. The Little Feat drummer passed away on Thursday

  • @Bluesman9830 Poor guy, he was one groovy man.

  • Brilliant song, great band - but why did some redneck mix it so you can't hear the wonderful Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris at all? Awwwww.

  • To bad this is mixed terrible. Can't hear the girls. RIP Richie!

  • not sure what is with the white overalls though

    

  • @sherrilovesto ...maybe he had a painting job after the gig? lol.

  • I would give up my left one to have seen this gig.

  • @spotthirteen

    Going to match that with my right leg, the wife's footspar and my favourite goddamn spanner.

    Damn.

    Rip Ritchie.

  • R.I.P Richie... You've entered the world of the immortals now. Maybe whilst your there you can play a duel drum solo with John Bonham. That'd be monumental! Brilliant drummer, and recognised for being one.

  • RIP, Richie. You were one of my favorite drummers.

  • They freakin' ROCK!! Reminds me a bit of "The Band"

  • Lowell George's voice was described at "vanilla grits." He just happened to be white, but played and sang like a New Orleans black guy. Loves me some Feets.

  • Sometimes in my dreams I see The Bright Lights of Memphis. God Bless Dixieland, and all the chicks & roosters that walk along the rivers there.

  • Doggone Emmylou is hot! Still is, in fact.

  • Oh my, yes. I am going to see them tonight. It is simply awful that they are not recognized. I am always gap jawed when someone has never even heard of them.

  • I have always loved Bonnie Raitt, and Emmylou Harris too!!! I just missed seeing them at the old Palamino Club in the 70's!! This was a cool reminder of the GOOD OLE DAYS!!!

  • I was watching this show on a Friday nite in 1977. So awesome...I still can't keep still when I hear their music.

    For those of you who find them dull, I hope you have some taste other than what's in your mouth. If you listen to them and hear the level of skill that every one of the band members displays, you'll at least appreciate them, whether you LIKE them or not.

    But OMG, DULL, they ain't!

  • How I miss the days... Little Feat, Bonnie Rait..

    Lowell George RIP & thank you

  • Outstanding

  • Good music YAAAL!

  • Yawn....Zzzzzz....I keep trying to like Little Feat, but find them as dull as a brick everytime - oh well!

  • @MissEgasMoniz Their music stands up against time as good as any in history of rock. Those who don't appreciate the rich textures of their compositions and the hilarious intelligence of the lyrics deserve neither music nor brains.

  • @RuffHouseStudios LOL - nah.....they are as dull as a brick.

  • @MissEgasMoniz ..sadly , you don't have a funky bone in your body.For your childrens sake, I hope it skips a generation...

  • @deadheadscout Ahahahah...."funky"???? There is no funk here - just dull boring shit. I hope you have no children for the sake of the gene pool.

  • that was red hot jammin. they were underated.

  • They didn't sing the middle verse.

    We made all the hotspots, my money flowed like wine

    Then the low-down southern whiskey, yea, began to fog my mind

    And i dont remember church bells, or the money i put down

    On the white picket fence and boardwalk

    On the house at the end of town

    Oh but boy do i remember the strain of her refrain

    And the nights we spent together

    And the way she called my name

  • Wow... love this song. Little Feat was A GREAT BAND.

  • Emmylou and Bonnie...I love y'all!

  • Too bad there aren't more bands like this today. The Black Crowes and the Derek Trucks Band are the closest we come.

  • i remember seeing the feat at Pitt in the late 70's........when lowell was still alive...o hell yes

  • little feat when lowell george was alive were the absolute best boogie band in the world.

  • little feat with lowell george was one the all time great bands...and to see them in concert was just amazing!

  • what a great band .. Lowell George had something special .. I've seen these guys a bunch of times and they're still kickin' .. I'll always miss Lowell though .

  • Classic performance of Dixie Chicken by Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, and Emmylou Harris from 1977.

  • Yebo

  • Can someone help me find a song. It has the same kind of percussion intro as this and the singer of the song has a voice that is a mix between John Lennon and Paul Rodgers. I think there was a slide guitar solo maybe. In the chorus he sings I'll Be Gone Gone Gone or something to that effect. It isn't Robert Plant or Bad Company. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • @ufofan1980  You should try "Rock & Roll Stew" by Traffic

  • @ufofan1980 Not sure which song but I think it could be Traffic

  • @lioli100 I actually already found it. It was Rock and Roll Stew by Traffic, you were right.

  • @ufofan1980 or Jeff Beck "Going Down"

  • @ufofan1980

    Might be Going Down by SRV and Jeff Beck.

    stratocaster1959 has posted the classic live audio version

  • Now, that's music !!!!!!!!!

  • What a talent Lowell George was!

  • We lost a great one when we lost Lowell George. I wonder where this was filmed?

  • coolio! taps foot...

  • I remember this show very well. Lowell brought these great artists on stage and then had their mics turned down, so that he was the only singer who could be heard.

  • @rocker53zero Good point!

  • great band my mate peter put me onto them in the mid 70s,he passed last year,,maybe lowell george is singing dixie chicken just for him,keep on rockin boys

  • Holy hell, this is the ultimate

  • mmmmm... Emmylou

    [sigh]

  • This one is for my Mama!!!! Love you!!

  • I don't know how long this vid has been up but it's been viewed over half a million times. The babes are HOT! I catch the current version of the band whenever they come through town. They continue to ROCK THE HOUSE!

  • maybe they didn't end up huge stars because the industry was already starting to make a left hand turn into formulaic, watered down vegastyle pop; all the innocence had already started to die down from the sixties; integrity was to be replaced with good ol' fashion 'what sells.' and 'what sells' best is what's most reliable; and, that would be mediocrity. there's nothing more dependable than mediocrity; genius may take years to come around.

  • holy crap. i've never know emmylou harris without gray hair. its a bit unsettling.

  • @Putaspellonyou you missed her best years!

  • Underrated and almost forgotten. Damn they were hot. Thanks, Lowell...Bonnie and

    Emmylou.How good can it get?

  • EVERY SONG Lowell George done was exceptional! RIP Lowell. U still rock on in my heart and soul!

  • Bonnie and Emmylou just mere backup singers then..LOL

  • Lowell had one off the most amazing and underrated voices in music history!!!!!And not a bad song writer either!!!!!!

  • Bonnie was never happier than with Lowell and his crazy antics! What a couple they were! Bonnie makes Emmylou look like a stuckup dowager in this video! Go BONNIE`!

  • super......

  • Lowell & the band are just dripping talent.  Makes you wonder where they & we all would be today if Lowell hadn't croaked. I expect that all music would be different today if he'd lived longer - like Hendrix.

  • Anyone still searching for great new music in a similar vein should check Freebo (bonnies bassplayer) recent albums, just great folk music and he does amazingly intimate live shows around the country all the time. Check his website freebomusic

  • These are one of the most underrated bands. Its criminal more people don't know more about them. Dixie Chicken is an amazing album

  • @Newman679 I totally agree that album changed my life as a player..... Many years ago... But still is timeless.

  • White boy makin' it talk at about 1:40. Yes please.

  • OH! I remember watching this show! The band was as hot as could be and Bonnie and Emmylou were just so damn sexy! How Da' Feet didn't end up huge stars after this I still can't figure out!

  • @SFCBenny57 I thought they were huge stars

  • @SFCBenny57 thats simple....Lowell died :(

  • @SFCBenny57 Little Feat didn't make it big because their lead singer, Lowell George, died two years later in June 1979 of an accidental drug overdose.

  • @SFCBenny57

    Lowell George (the lead singer) died.

  • @SFCBenny57 it's because no one appreciates good music! i wasn't even alive yet during this video but luckily my dad raised me on Little Feat and other good bands ever since i was little.

  • Look guys, I know you're tired of doin the chicken,but please, please, we can't live without chicken. That dixie chicken.

  • this is one of my favorite tunes from the '70's - Billy Payne was a huge influence on me as a piano player - thanks for the great video!

  • Everytime I hear this song I want to buy a piano and learn honky tonk.

  • Awsome Preformance! Just wish the backup vocals were up a bit in the mix...

  • GREAT MUSIC.

    (what's with all the political bullshit? It's great music.)

  • Doesn't matter who or how they did what or whatever, these guys were and still are great entertainers....just enjoy. It's all just a left-handed form of human endeavor.

  • I like this band and fail to see any connection between them and our latest economic catastrophe. If everyone worked as hard as these guys, we would have no problems maintaining our way of life.

  • considering who has played with and been influenced by this band, i'm surprised they are not better known.

  • or a feeble-minded redneck, like you...

  • Hey I used to love Bonnie Raitt - but face it - aren't we all a little sick of this shit? The stoner worldview is not very productive. There is only so much self-centered fun a person can have. Our generation - those who grew up on this miusic - is the sorriest in American history. We've ruined everything. Coincidence? I doubt it.

  • No, you're the sorriest in American history.Stop sucking the fumes of the American Nazi propaganda that blames the damage done by conservatives since Nixon on a generation that opposed them. Right wing nuts , economic royalists and bible thumping wingnuts have ruined everything. Grow up, whiner.

  • There is no difference between right-wing narcissists and left-wing narcissists - you're all part of the same problem, a generation of self-indulgent fucks who have taken everything good in American life and bent it out of shape until it can't be recognized. Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Nixon, Carter, Obama - all the same. Fuckheads. These druggies are your sirens.

  • You have proved yourself incapable of rational though as well as a lack of political knowledge. There is no similarity between far right wing kooks, biblethumpers, economic royalists and decent Americans. Like far right wing nuts who are caught in the mens room with other men while praying to jesus and decrying homosexuals as perverts, you reveal yourself as the self indulgent you accuse others of being. Sounds to me like you missed a few steps in your rehab program, Stuart Smalley.

  • Oh no? The hero of the left, Clinton, and that of the right, Bush, worked equally to squash Ms. Born, when she tried to regulate financial markets in 1998. Her squashers now work for Obama. The overarching problem is the hubris and self-indulgence of a useless generation. Tim Leary and Ayn Rand - united in self-love.

  • You are wrong again. Shrub was a Gubnor in '98..Clinton was being impeached by the corrupt politically motivated right wing. It was the rethuglican led Congress , Mitch McConnell's committee that refused to regulate Derivatives in 2000. Conservative led financial deregulation has led this country into the hole we are in now..Tim Leary and Ayn Rand are not even of the same generation...ya knownothing. Obviously facts mean little to someone like you who knows nothing, Pat Boone.