Let's Get Covered In Some Funky Groovy Music Again...

The first volume of this series did come with a bit of surprising backstage shenanigans. Having received a bunch of Little Feat covers from, so I was told, "an unknown source", it turned out the very last second - I was just retagging the files right before uploading them - that the author wasn't that unknown. It was your dear blog pal and mine, Jonder, who compiled the majority of these songs firs, but it was late and I was tired and just wanted to get the whole shebang uploaded, so couldn't include more than a fleeting mention. So yeah, thanks to Jonder for doing a lot of the grunt work on this one. He also right afterwards compiled a fabulous sequel that you should check out. He reused three of the tracks from his older comp, so these will show up here as well, but nothing like hearing a good song twice rather than never, am I right?! 

So, adding to the usual suspects already present on Vol. 1 (Robert Palmer, Linda Ronstadt, Nicolette Larson), we have Lowell's old duet partner (and song co-writer) Valerie Carter on her version of "Heartache", gospel queen Oleta Adams' take on "Long Distance Love" or Bob Weir's take on "Easy To Slip". OBG additions to the playlist this time around include the dark lord of mainstream country that ruled the 90s - let's call him Darth Crooks, shall we? - with a surprisingly credible funky take on "Dixie Chicken", Eddie Money calling up the "Rock'n'Roll Doctor", good ol' Randy Newman tackling "Sailing Shoes" and - fresh outta the press - Pure Prairie League's fun take on "Six Feet Of Snow", one of Lowell's most underrated tunes. 

That song also proudly fits into Lowell's collection of truck driving songs, the first of which was of course "Truck Stop Girl". The Byrds covered that one before it even came out on Little Feat's debut, but Clarence White's take was a strangely nasal take that made some of the lyrics almost unintelligable. So I decided to switch this out for a live track from the Byrds' England tour in 1971. Other additions are Joey Landreth's "All That You Dream" and Jason Dotson's take on "Lafayette Railroad". So that's seven tracks that weren't on the old Little Feat Covered playlist, so I'd highly recommend you pick this up as well. 

As with volume one, there is a ton of variety on these tracks, all coming back to how great these songs are in the first place. So, let's get groovin' with these fine artists and these very fine songs...