Little Feat:The Rock and Roll Doctors
Don Snowden, Rock Around The World, 12 July 1977
IF RAVE PRESS NOTICES and the acclaim of their fellow musicians were the standard measure of success in the rock world, Little Feat would surely have been enshrined in the pantheon or rock and roll legends a long time ago. The Rock media has long hailed them as one of the premier musical outfits in the known universe. Groups as stylistically diverse as Marshall Tucker and Led Zeppelin have publicly proclaimed the Feats as their favorite band. When Little Feat journeyed to Europe two years ago as part of a Warner Bros. package tour – a jaunt that saw them steal the show night after night from the headlining Doobie Brothers – the Stones made their first public appearance as a group in some five years to catch one of their shows.
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