Join the Band

Infobox Album |
Name = Join the Band
Type = studio
Artist = Little Feat


Released = July 1, 2008
| Genre = Rock, Country, Blues
Length =
Label = 429 Records
Producer = Mac McAnally
Bill Payne
Reviews = * HonestTune.com [http://www.honesttune.com/content/view/1252/27/ link]
Last album = "Rocky Mountain Jam"
(2007)
This album = "Join The Band"
(2008)

Join the Band is a 2008 album recorded by Little Feat. Their first studio album in five years, it features no new original songs but is a set of collaborations with other artists such as Bob Seger. Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews and Inara George. It was released on July 1, 2008.

The album was recorded at Jimmy Buffett's studio and co-produced by Feat keyboard player Bill Payne with Mac McAnally of Buffett's Coral Reefer Band.

The track list consists mostly of reworked Feat classics with a few cover versions thrown in.

Tracks

# Dixie Chicken feat. Vince Gill and Sonny Landreth
# Something in the Water feat. Bob Seger and Sam Bush
# See You Later Alligator
# Fat Man in the Bathtub feat. Dave Matthews and Sonny Landreth
# Champion of the World feat. Jimmy Buffett
# the Weight feat. Béla Fleck
# Don't You Just Know It
# Time Loves a Hero feat. Jimmy Buffett
# Willin' feat. Brooks and Dunn
# This Land Is Your Land
# Oh Atlanta feat. Chris Robinson
# Spanish Moon feat. Craig Fuller and Vince Gill
# Trouble feat. Inara George
# Sailin' Shoes feat. Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush and Béla Fleck

Past collaborations

*Bela Fleck's banjo playing can also be heard on the song "Gimme A Stone" on Feat's 2000 album Chinese Work Songs.
*Craig Fuller was a member of Little Feat from 1988 to 1993. He still occasionally joins them at live shows.
*Inara George is the daughter of the late Little Feat founder Lowell George. She sang with the band on "Sailin' Shoes" on their 1996 concert album Live From Neon Park.
*Emmylou Harris can be heard on backing vocals on the band's 1974 album Feats Don't Fail Me Now.
*Sonny Landreth plays on a live version of the song "Let It Roll" on the live collection Raw Tomatos.
*Bob Seger can be heard on backing vocals on the band's 1988 album Let It Roll.

Trivia

*The album's title comes from a song sung a cappella by the band at the start of their 1978 live album Waiting For Columbus.
*The Weight is the second song by The Band that Feat have covered on record. The first was Rag Mama Rag on the Chinese Work Songs album.
*A live recording of Feat singing the Woody Guthrie standard "This Land Is Your Land" is featured on the live collection Ripe Tomatos.
*Mike Gordon of the band Phish plays bass on "This Land Is Your Land". Feat had previously covered the Phish track "Sample In A Jar" for a Phish tribute album before including it on their own Chinese Work Songs.

Little Feat personnel

*Paul Barrere - vocals, guitars
*Sam Clayton - percussion, vocals
*Kenny Gradney - bass
*Richie Hayward - drums, backing vocals
*Shaun Murphy - vocals
*Bill Payne - keyboards, vocals
*Fred Tackett - guitars, mandolin, trumpet, backing vocals

External links

Official announcement and full rundown of musicians on Little Feat's [http://www.littlefeat.net/index.php?page=jointheband website]