Little Feat

Little Feat are on the verge of being too proficient for their own good. As their always
excellent instrumental work evolves, some of it -- Bill Payne's extended multikey-board
sorties on "One Love Stand," for example -- is simply overdone. Payne is a gifted and
versatile player, but adding George Duke/Herbie Hancock keyboard styles to a band that is
already so well-defined -- from the complex layers of counter-rhythms through t... More >

It's no surprise that as they run out of things to say--all this adds to our insight into interpersonals is a few turns of phrase--they figure out artier ways of saying them. In fact, it's a bore. I'd recommend "Long Distance Love" to Wilson Pickett, though. (Grade: B-)