Feats Don't Fail Me Now

This article is about the Little Feat album. For similar phrases, see Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (disambiguation).

Feats Don't Fail Me Now is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1974, on the Warner Bros. label. The cover was designed by Neon Park.^[5]

Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Studio album by Little Feat
Released	August 9, 1974
Recorded	Early 1974
Studio	Blue Seas Recording Studio in Hunt Valley, Maryland The Sound Factory, Los Angeles Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Genre	Country-funk[1]
Length	34:18
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Lowell George (tracks 1–4 and 6–8), Van Dyke Parks (track 5)
Little Feat chronology
Dixie Chicken (1973) Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974) The Last Record Album (1975)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

According to Richie Hayward, "Wait Till the Shit Hits the Fan" dates back to their debut but the band had had trouble recording it on the previous two albums, due to its irregular ⁷
₈ meter. It was scrapped until the sessions for this album when it was recorded live in the studio as "The Fan"; the original version appeared on the 2000 boxed set Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat.^[6]

In 2000 the album was voted number 718 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.^[7]

Track listing

Side One

1. "Rock & Roll Doctor" (Lowell George, Martin Kibbee) – 2:57 (lead vocal George)
2. "Oh Atlanta" (Bill Payne) – 3:26 (lead vocal Payne)
3. "Skin it Back" (Paul Barrère) – 4:11 (lead vocal Barrère)
4. "Down the Road" (George) – 3:46 (lead vocal George)
5. "Spanish Moon" (George) – 3:01 (lead vocal George)

Side Two

1. "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" (Barrère, George, Martin Kibbee) – 2:27 (lead vocal George)
2. "The Fan" (George, Payne) – 4:30 (lead vocal George)
3. "Medley: Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie" (George/Richie Hayward, Payne) – 10:00 (lead vocal George)

Charts

Chart (1974–75)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[8]	73
US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)	36

Personnel

Little Feat

• Paul Barrere – guitar, vocals
• Sam Clayton – percussion, vocals
• Lowell George – vocals, guitar
• Kenny Gradney – bass
• Richie Hayward – drums, vocals
• Bill Payne – keyboards, vocals

Additional

• Gordon DeWitty – clavinet ("Spanish Moon")
• Fred White – drums ("Spanish Moon")
• Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
• Bonnie Raitt – backing vocals
• Fran Tate – backing vocals
• Tower of Power – horns

Notes

1. Larkin, Colin (1999). All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Virgin Books. p. 60. ISBN 0-7535-0354-9. Archived from the original on October 8, 2021.
2. Feats Don't Fail Me Now at AllMusic
3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
5. "Neon Park". Comiclopedia. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
6. Robyn Flans (21 October 2010). "Richie Hayward: The MD Interviews, Part 1". Modern Drummer. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
7. Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 230. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
8. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 178. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

External links

• Feats Don't Fail Me Now album review at Rolling Stone
• "Rock And Roll Doctor" on YouTube – provided by Warner Music Group
• "Skin It Back" on YouTube – provided by Warner Music Group