Feats Don't Fail Me Now

This article is about the Little Feat album. For similar phrases, see Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (disambiguation).
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Studio album by
Little Feat
ReleasedAugust 9, 1974
RecordedEarly 1974
StudioBlue Seas Recording Studio in Hunt Valley, Maryland
The Sound Factory, Los Angeles
Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Genre
Length34:18
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerLowell George (tracks 1–4 and 6–8),
Van Dyke Parks (track 5)
Little Feat chronology
Dixie Chicken
(1973) 		Feats Don't Fail Me Now
(1974) 		The Last Record Album
(1975)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

Feats Don't Fail Me Now is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1974, on the Warner Bros. label. The cover was designed by Neon Park.[5]

According to Richie Hayward, "Wait Till the Shit Hits the Fan" dates back to their debut but the band had had trouble recording it on the previous two albums, due to its irregular 7
8 meter. It was scrapped until the sessions for this album when it was recorded live in the studio as "The Fan"; the original version appeared on the 2000 boxed set Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat.[6]

In 2000 the album was voted number 718 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[7]

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (1999). All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Virgin Books. p. 60. ISBN 0-7535-0354-9. Archived from the original on October 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Feats Don't Fail Me Now at AllMusic
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ "Neon Park". Comiclopedia. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  6. ^ Robyn Flans (21 October 2010). "Richie Hayward: The MD Interviews, Part 1". Modern Drummer. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. ^ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 230. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.