Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros.)
Ian MacDonald, NME, 31 March 1973
SINCE SAILIN' Shoes, the group's last album, asthmatic Pachuco bass-player Roy Estrada, formerly of The Mothers, has departed to join Captain Beefheart under the pseudonym of Orejon.
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