Waiting for Columbus

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Waiting for Columbus
Live album from Little Feat

Publication
(s)

  • Record (double LP) 1978
  • Single CD 1990
  • Double CD 2002

admission

August 2-10, 1977 at The Rainbow Theater, London and The Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Label (s) Warner Brothers

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Rock, southern rock

occupation

With the Tower of Power Horn Section :

production

Lowell George

chronology
Time Loves a Hero
1977 		Waiting for Columbus Down on the Farm
1979

Waiting for Columbus is the first live album by the American rock band Little Feat . It was recorded in 1977 and released in February 1978.

General

Little Feat built a solid reputation among fans and critics over the course of their band career. With each studio album, they became more commercially successful. The group did not decide to make a live album until the end of their existence, when the disputes between Lowell George and Bill Payne over the musical development were already noticeable. Waiting for Columbus has been recorded at four concerts at the Rainbow Theater in London and three concerts in the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC . At these concerts enough material was recorded for a triple LP, but only a double LP was released due to cost reasons. The original recordings were only available as a double LP. Parts of the material were only published in the 2002 edition.

Track list

1978 double LP

page 1

  1. Join the Band (Traditional) - 1:50 (The greeting is made by Cerphe Colwell, a radio reporter from Washington.)
  2. Fat Man in the Bathtub (George) - 4:50
  3. All that You Dream (Barrère, Payne) - 4:25
  4. Oh Atlanta (Payne) - 4:09
  5. Old Folks' Boogie (Barrère, G. Barrère) - 4:22

Page 2

  1. Time Loves a Hero (Barrère, Gradney, Payne) - 4:20
  2. Day or Night (Payne, F. Tate) - 5:23
  3. Mercenary Territory (George, E. George, Hayward) - 4:27
  4. Spanish Moon (George) - 4:49

Page 3

  1. Dixie Chicken (George, Kibbee) - 9:00
  2. Tripe Face Boogie (Hayward, Payne) - 7:02
  3. Rocket in My Pocket (George) - 3:42

page 4

  1. Willin '(George) - 4:42
  2. Don't Bogart that Joint (E. Ingber, L. Wagner) - 0:57
  3. A Apolitical Blues (George) - 3:41
  4. "Sailin 'Shoes (George) - 6:18
  5. Feats Don't Fail Me Now "(Barrère, George, Kibbee) - 5:17

1990 single CD

In order to accommodate the two LPs on a single CD, Don't Bogart that Joint and A Apolitical Blues were omitted from this edition, but released as additional tracks on The Last Record Album .

  1. Join the Band (Traditional) - 1:24
  2. Fat Man in the Bathtub (George) - 4:52
  3. All that You Dream (Barrère, Payne) - 4:31
  4. Oh Atlanta (Payne) - 4:20
  5. Old Folks' Boogie (Barrère, G. Barrère) - 4:27
  6. Time Loves a Hero (Barrère, Gradney, Payne) - 4:19
  7. Day or Night (Payne, F. Tate) - 5:31
  8. Mercenary Territory (George, E. George, Hayward) - 4:37
  9. Spanish Moon (George) - 4:42
  10. Dixie Chicken (George, Kibbee) - 8:56
  11. Tripe Face Boogie (Hayward, Payne) - 7:10
  12. Rocket in My Pocket (George) - 3:48
  13. Willin '(George) - 3:50
  14. Sailin 'Shoes (George) - 6:20
  15. Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Barrère, George, Kibbee) - 5:21
  • Running time 74:00.

2002 Deluxe Edition double CD

This edition not only contains the digitally edited titles of the original edition, but also additional pieces that were not included on the original LP but were created during the recording for the LP. Disc 1 contains the recordings from pages 1, 3 and 2 of the original LP (in that order), disc 2 contains page 4, continues with previously unreleased recordings (6 to 12) and ends with three tracks that are based on Hoy- Hoy! had already been published.

Disc 1

  1. Join the Band (Traditional) - 1:54
  2. Fat Man in the Bathtub (George) - 4:53
  3. All that You Dream (Barrère, Payne) - 4:29
  4. Oh Atlanta (Payne) - 4:20
  5. Old Folks' Boogie (Barrère, G. Barrère) - 4:26
  6. Dixie Chicken (George, Kibbee) - 8:53
  7. Tripe Face Boogie (Hayward, Payne) - 7:09
  8. Rocket in My Pocket (George) - 3:57
  9. Time Loves a Hero (Barrère, Gradney, Payne) - 4:19
  10. Day or Night (Payne, F. Tate) - 5:30
  11. Mercenary Territory (George, E. George, Hayward) - 4:36
  12. Spanish Moon (George) - 5:36
  • Duration: 60:02

Disc 2

  1. Willin '(George) - 4:42
  2. Don't Bogart that Joint ( E. Ingber , L. Wagner) - 1:01
  3. A Apolitical Blues (George) - 3:51
  4. Sailin 'Shoes (George) - 6:23
  5. Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Barrère, George, Kibbee) - 5:35
  6. One Love Stand (Barrère, Gradney, Payne) - 4:27
  7. Rock and Roll Doctor (George, Kibbee) - 4:17
  8. Skin It Back (Barrère) - 5:40 (previously unreleased recording)
  9. On Your Way Down ( Allen Toussaint ) - 6:25
  10. Walkin 'All Night (Barrère, Payne) - 4:12
  11. Cold, Cold, Cold (George) - 5:18
  12. Day at the Dog Races (Barrère, Clayton, Gradney, Hayward, Payne) - 12:12
  13. Skin It Back (Barrère) - 4:40 (released on Hoy-Hoy! )
  14. Red Streamliner (Payne, F. Tate) - 4:59
  15. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (George) - 4:12
  • Duration: 77:54

Location of the title

place date title
Rainbow Theater 2nd August 1977 Tripe Face Boogie (piano solo); Mercenary Territory; Skin It Back, Rocket in My Pocket
Rainbow Theater 3rd August 1977 Dixie Chicken; Tripe Face Boogie; A apolitical blues
Rainbow Theater 4th August 1977 Old Folks' Boogie; Time Loves a Hero: Day or Night; Cold, cold, cold; Dixie Chicken (Horn Break)
Lisner Auditorium August 8, 1977 Fat Man in the Bathtub; All that You Dream; Oh Atlanta; Spanish Moon; Willin '; Don't Bogart that Joint; Walking all night; Skin it back; Red stramliner
Lisner Auditorium August 9, 1977 Feats Don't Fail Me Now; One love stand; Rock and roll doctor; Day at the Dog Races; Teenage Nervous Breakdown
Lisner Auditorium August 10, 1977 Join the band; Sailin 'shoes; On your way down

Criticism

  • All About Jazz put Waiting for Columbus at # 2 on their 10 best rock live albums.
  • Little Feat really gets down to some hard-driving boogie rock that captures the essence of the band. Billboard, 1978
    (Little Feat goes to work with boogie rock, which captures the essence of the band.)
  • It's still a pleasure to hear a great band run through their best songs… but as the double-album Waiting for Columbus proves, Little Feat in its decline was still pretty great. All Music Guide Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
    (It's still a pleasure to hear a great band play their best songs ... but as the double album Waiting for Columbus proves, Little Feat was still pretty great on the downside.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Booklet of the Deluxe Edition
  2. ^ All About Jazz: The Ten Best Live Rock Recordings
  3. ^ Review Billboard
  4. ^ All Music Guide Review Waiting for Columbus