#sam clayton

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Little Feat - “All that You Dream” (Alternate Version)

It’s parenthetically titled an alternate version, but a previously unreleased take of “All that You Dream” sounds more like Little Feat rehearsing or laying down a late-stage demo.

Semantics aside, the song is pretty much finished. The arrangement is set. Lowell George, however, sings with a looseness that suggests the band wasn’t looking for a take and there are no backgrounds.

It’s the sound of Little Feat playing live and having fun in the studio. And the animated George seems happy with the band with which he sometimes grew frustrated. That’s nice to hear.

Alt. “Dream” follows a couple of versions of “Long Distance Love” that announced the Oct. 24 release of Feat’s 50th-anniversary reissue of the Last Record Album.

Grade card: Little Feat - “All that You Dream” (Alternate Version) - A-

10/23/24

[spilladabalia]

Willin' Boogie - Little Feat | The Midnight Special

[polniaczek]

Vanishing Point (1971) featuring the uncredited cameos of David Gates, Sam Clayton, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, and Bonnie & Delaney Bramlett as religious commune singers

[lukegauthier]

[rainingmusic]

Little Feat - Day Or Night 

[oojei]

in which Sam Clayton became a demon queen and Cat Grant got kidnapped by those demons

(is this cheating bec it’s technically a crossover but heeeck and also they’re queens so technically royalty)

@flarrowverse-shipyard ‘s FEMSLASH WEEK 2020 Day 3 - Royalty AU ft. Cat Grant/Samantha Clayton

[krispyweiss]

Two Versions of “Long Distance Love” Announce Oct. 24 Expanded Reissue of Little Feat’s The Last Record Album

Little Feat were hanging out in their rehearsal space in 1975, building excitement for the upcoming release of the Last Record Album, when they performed a tender version of “Long Distance Love” with cameras rolling.

“You guys out there in the field never really realize what we go through here,” Lowell George says. “This is really difficult.”

The band looks haggard and disheveled - a polite way of saying, Really fucking high - but sound sweet as they unroll this informal run-through. Recently unearthed and restored, the video was issued to announce the forthcoming (Oct. 24) 50th-anniversary reissue of the aforementioned Record Album.

George doesn’t play on the heartbroken ballad. He simply sings beautifully without the benefit of backgrounds he doesn’t need.

While this version is not part of the set - including a remaster, studio outtakes and the band’s Oct. 31, 1975, gig in Boston - an alternative version is. It finds Richie Hayward simply keeping time - he hadn’t settled on his fills yet - while George and the band try out various harmony-vocal arrangements.

Together, these previously unreleased versions vividly illustrate the evolution of “Long Distance Love,” leaving the studio version as the missing link.

9/12/25

[spilladabalia]

Little Feat - Too High To Cut My Hair