Oil Well – RSC 149
01 Peaceful Easy Feeling 4:45
02 Midnight Flyer 4:20
03 Twenty One 2:30
04 Oll' 55 4:34
05 James Dean 3:59
06 Doolin' Dalton 5:41
07 Desperado 3:01
08 Take It Easy 5:45
09 Already Gone 4:57
10 Willin' 3:15
11 Sailin' Shoes 4:07
12 Dixie Chicken 4:29
13 Trip Face Boogie 6:18
Note:
All songs by Browne/ Frey/ Souther/ Henley unless noted.
Tracks 10 to 13: Little Feat live at Ultrasonic Studios - Hempstead, NY - April 10, 1973
Little Feat:
Lowell George - vocals, slide guitar
Paul Barrere - guitar, vocals
Bill Payne - keyboards
Kenny Gradney - bass
Richie Hayward - drums
Sam Clayton - percussion
Eagles:
Glenn Frey – vocals; acoustic rhythm guitar; electric rhythm guitar; lead and slide guitars; piano
Don Henley – vocals, drums
Bernie Leadon – vocals, lead, acoustic and rhythm guitars, banjo, pedal steel
Randy Meisner – vocals, bass guitar
This album is a clone of: Eagles / Little Feat – "Take It Easy" - Fabbri Editori – MRL 070.
Oil Well's version has a fine cover, fine quality for the time. It's limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. On the front cover a picture of the two bands performing live in the 70s.
Recommended songs: Peaceful Easy Feeling, James Dean, Sailin shoes.
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In 1974 the Eagles were still a young band, far from the successes that would come in the following years. The band was in all respects a cult group closer to certain coutry sounds than to pop that would have characterized the subsequent works. In recent years there has been a rediscovery of this first lineup of the band in which the Leadon figure was predominant. But what do we have here?. There is a long-bootlegged vintage Eagles concert from March 14th, 1974 at New York City's Beacon Theatre. The show, which was filmed for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, features the band's original lineup of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. Joining the group are close friends and collaborators, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt who take the stage for a few songs each, and help the Eagles close the show with a rousing version of their breakthrough hit, "Take It Easy," which was co-written by Browne and released on their first album.
During his 2014 speech inducting Linda Ronstadt into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the late, great Glenn Frey touched upon how the Eagles learned their craft while serving as her backing band: “Obviously the first thing we all noticed was what a great singer she was. And for Don (Henley) and I, to be the two harmony singers to be singing with all these incredible songs that she loved, y’know, was just the step in the right direction for us. We both loved harmony singing, and to be able to do it with Linda was a treat.”
Bernie Leadon, who was by far the most professionally experienced member of the Eagles' co-founders, remembers being impressed early on by Don Henley's songwriting talents: "When the band started, Henley wasn't really writing. So, he only co-wrote one song on the first album — that was 'Witchy Woman' with me. And then the second album he comes out with this full-blown, masterpiece song 'Desperado.' Now, how could he do that? I don't know, except the fact that he was an English major, so he understood storytelling, he understood language. (Laughs) He pulled that out of a dark and hidden place."
Little Feat live at Ultrasonic Studios - Hempstead, NY - April 10, 1973For some listeners and fans, 1973 is the year of glory for Little Feat: Dixie Chicken's release and live amalgam were at their peak. The bootleg is a confirmation of what has just been said - assuming that confirmations were necessary. This exceptionally good FM radio broadcast recording showcases Little Feat in session at Ultrasonic Studios for WLIR-FM, Long Island, NY. The show is very good, with loads of Lowell George's juicy, down-home slide pervasive throughout. The recording is very high quality for 1973. Some tidbits of DJ interviewing Lowell and the boys are on here between songs.
This is an unbelievable show both in terms of sound quality and playing and this is a "must have" show for all you Feat freaks and casual listeners out there".
All the pieces are performed brilliantly in particular a great version of A Apolitical Blues stands out: the influence of Captain Beefheart and Howlin Wolf in Lowell's singing is clear. A limping, dragged, absurd blues with a noteworthy guitar work. This concert is part of a series of tuesday night live radio concerts aired on Wlir-FM, 92.7. the station was located a few blocks from Ultra Sonic recording studios. Lowell George stayed after the live show and remixed the tapes till the wee hours. It was later used as a promotional live show by Warner Bros.Those Tuesday night concerts are an incredible sonic history of pretty much every first and second tier band of the 70's. From hot tuna to graham nash solo, jethro tull, jackson browne...they all showed up in that small intimate venue.
Little Feat:Live at Ultrasonic Studios, Hempstead NY April 10, 1973If you talk to Little Feat fans that cherish, embrace and obsess over the Lowell George era of the band, which...let's be honest is most of us, many will bring up similar seminal live performances that document the band at their prime. The 1977 Lisner Auditorium and Rainbow Theatre shows that spawned Waiting For Columbus are of course among them, but many fans, even some of the more casual, hold a fondness for a particular bootleg which has come to be known in taper circles as Electrif Lycanthrope. This set, which due to the fortunate online freeing of many bootlegs which were sold at inflated prices with no royalties to the bands that they featured , is readily available online. Electrif Lycanthrope is in essence roughly half of a series of two intimate shows recorded at Ultasonic Recording Studios in Hampstead NY on April 10, 1973 and September 19, 1974. For the sake of reviewing and discussing this exceptional and historic document of Feat at their finest, I will be splitting the Ultrasonic sessions in to separate reviews beginning with the 1973 show.
What will become apparent to anyone listening to the show, is the phenomenal audio quality. This is Feat playing to a small, and very fortunate crowd, as they rocket through a series of songs from their Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken albums with the spark and chemistry of a band loving playing together. This was the beginning of the second phase of the band with Paul Barrere, Kenny Gradney and Sam Clayton still relatively new additions, and there is a rawness and excitement to these performances that is hard to match. From the slow burns of A-Political Blues and Got No Shadow, to the epic one-two punch of Two Trains in to Fat Man In The Bathtub, Lowell George proves over and over again that he is the greatest frontman of a band that was blowing minds and humbling headliners everywhere they went. Sailin' Shoes, another stand out track begins with George singing A-Capella and then transitions into a beautiful jazz/swing influenced number highlighting Bill Payne's diversity on piano. The set concludes with 4 classics, Cold, Cold, Cold, and Dixie Chicken played fairly straight from the album but to perfection nonetheless, followed by brilliant high energy versions of Tripe Face Boogie and Teenage Nervous Breakdown that feature some immense guitar interplay between George and Barrere as well as the more improvisational and eclectic side of the band that became it's trademark to this day.
Throughout this set it is clear that we are listening to masters at their craft and that few if any could top them as a unit. Richie Hayward's drumming is on a different level and this set is one of the finest documents of what he was capable of off record, and it is a wonder to behold. Aside from the songs, which speak for themselves we get something extra special on this set. We as fans, many who were unable to see a Feat show with Lowell George (I wasn't born yet when he passed) get a rare opportunity to hear the man talk in a brief interview where he introduces the band and discusses the inclusion of Willin' on two albums. He comes off as kind, humble, and warm with a great sense of humour and the charisma we always hear about from those that knew and loved him.
I've listened to this show hundreds of times. It deserves to be heard by all
lovers of good music. Musicology professors should be playing it to students in their classes. Along with its successor which will be discussed later, the Ultrasonic Studios ,1973 recording is a must listen document of a band at their prime and of a man that left us far too soon.
Review and discussion by: Mike Gruneir
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