{"id":7022,"date":"2012-08-02T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:00:10","slug":"little-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/little-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"LITTLE FEAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7023\" title=\"LITTLE-FEAT-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LITTLE-FEAT-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LITTLE-FEAT-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LITTLE-FEAT-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>L<\/strong><strong>ITTLE FEAT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Rooster Blues<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>When Little Feat reconvened nearly a decade after the 1979 death of seemingly irreplaceable co-founder Lowell George, few predicted the band would be going strong nearly a quarter-century later. Now comes another enormous challenge, as drummer Gabe Ford takes on the daunting task of occupying the drum throne of the great Richie Hayward, who died in 2009. That leaves keyboardist and vocalist Bill Payne as the only surviving original member, but with mainstays Paul Barrere (guitar), Kenny Gradney (bass) and Sam Clayton (percussion)\u2014all Feats since the early \u201970s\u2014still aboard and Ford laying down infectious grooves, there\u2019s no mistaking this funk-a-boogie juggernaut for any other band. <em>Rooster Rag<\/em> doesn\u2019t attempt to break new ground. Instead it serves as a reminder that Little Feat, always a powerhouse live band, can also kick it up in the studio. It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone who\u2019s ever loved Little Feat wouldn\u2019t feel right at home here. \u2013JT<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE FEAT Rooster Blues [Rounder] When Little Feat reconvened nearly a decade after the 1979 death of seemingly irreplaceable co-founder Lowell George, few predicted the band would be going strong nearly a quarter-century later. Now comes another enormous challenge, as drummer Gabe Ford takes on the daunting task of occupying the drum throne of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4456,4300,4458,4454,4457,4455,164,4459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}