I did not really get into Little Feat until after they had well and truly peaked and Lowell George had left. I remember Doc Rock raving and repeatedly playing the Long Distance Love video on a Radio a with Puctures. Glad I was reassessed them later as they are such a great band and Dixie Chicken is in my opinion the best of their studio albums. Full of smokey funk and swagger with an almost perfect first side. From the classy opening title track - here in a great version with Emmylou and Bonnie Rait - through Two Trains, Roll um Easy (covered the same year by Glenn Campbell), the definitive version of Allen Toussaint's On Your Way Down and then closing out with the slow groove of Kiss it Off.
The only problem with the quality of side one is that I do not flip the record often enough. Why come down after that high? But there are still gems there with Fat Man in Bathtub and Lafayette Railroad.
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