Little Feat
Mystic Theater
Petaluma, CA
August 22, 2002

Source: Unknown SBD

Disc 1 -- 67:43

01. Time Loves A Hero >
02. Day Or Night
03. Honest Man
04. Rocket In My Pocket
05. Daily Grind
06. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky*^ >
07. Lonesome Whistle*^
08. Rag Mama Rag*^
09. Hanging On To The Good Times

Disc 2 -- 70:30

01. The Ingenue >
02. Day At The Dog Races > The Ingenue
03. All That You Dream
04. Voices On The Wind
05. Dixie Chicken*^# > Solos*^# > Born in Chicago*# > Tennessee Jed*^# > Dixie Chicken*^#

Disc 3 -- 12:09

01. Willin'* > Don't Bogart That Joint* > Willin'*

* with Norton Buffalo on harmonica
^ with Mark Karan on guitar
# with Stephen Bruton on guitar

-- Note on sound quality: A couple of minor glitches, most noticeably at the beginning of Hanging On To The
Good Times, and probably others audible to hardcore audiophiles.

Featroller Review, Belated Discovery-excused Extra Blowhard Edition:

As a longtime devotee of Feat material from archive.org, I'm ashamed to say that this exemplary show somehow
slipped under my radar until just recently. Man, what a find! Better late than never. You can tell even
during an experimental-sounding Day Or Night that the energy is there. But when Norton Buffalo* and Mark Karan
(Ratdog) kick in on Everything I Do, matters swiftly escalate. That Norton Buffalo can blow! I've heard him
with the Feat and Bonnie Raitt several other times, but not like this. It sounds like he soaked his harps in
espresso. Mark Karan is also impressive, but unfortunately he is a bit low in the mix. During 01-02, Everything
I Do was a set list regular, but this is hands down the best version I've ever heard. And that vibe continues
right through Lonesome Whistle and Rag Mama Rag.

Then there is the extraordinary Hanging On To The Good Times with Paul Barrere on the vocal. Has he ever done
that before, or since? It's very good... I thought Shaun would be singing it but Paul lived it, after all, and
what a treat it is. But it's just a warm-up for an outbreak of jazz-rock. The Ingénue stops dead in its tracks
for a blistering 12-minute Dog Races, then resumes where it left off. The Ingénue is one of those songs where
it's interesting to consider what Lowell would have thought. He was no jazz fan, leaving the stage during
Dog Races, but The Ingénue has that wonderfully bizarre where-did-they-come-up-with-that originality Lowell
and Billy had, especially on the first two LF albums.

After a hot All That You Dream and the beautiful Voices On The Wind, all three guests troop onstage for the
Chicken marathon. Whoever recorded and transferred this source didn't bother splitting the various segments
into separate tracks. That's understandable, given the combinations in the solo section. It would go something
like: harp > bass > keys > keys/harp > Born In Chicago... say what? Yes indeed, the blues classic sung by Billy
with Norton's harp riffing away and Stephen Bruton* on guitar -- another one of a kind performance!

That leads into Tennessee Jed, now with Mark Karan's stinging guitar turned up (but Stephen Bruton's a little
too low -- oh well), and then a four-guitar 12-minute solo smorgasbord you have to hear to believe. Close it
out with more soulful harp on the Willin' > Bogart encore and you're left with two overwhelming feelings:
1) lord I wish I had been there, and 2) at least I got to hear this recording before I die.

*Norton Buffalo passed away last year, as did Stephen Bruton, longtime featfriend and collaborator. Stephen's
last project was coproducing with T-Bone Burnett the music to the movie Crazy Heart, for which Jeff Bridges
won an Oscar. On their current tour Little Feat is covering Fallin' and Flyin', a song Stephen cowrote for
the film.

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