Lowell George - Thanks I'll Eat It Here
Released: 1979
Recorded: 1979
Label: Warner Bros
Length: 31:19
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Thanks I'll Eat It Here is the only solo album by the late rock and roll singer-songwriter Lowell George, leader of Little Feat.
Thanks I'll Eat It Here is strikingly different from the fusion-leanings of Little Feat's last studio album, Time Loves a Hero. Lowell George never cared for jazz-fusion, so it should be little surprise that there's none to be heard on Thanks. Instead, he picks up where Dixie Chicken left off (he even reworks that album's standout "Two Trains"), turning in a laid-back, organic collection of tunes equal parts New Orleans R&B, country, sophisticated blues, and pop. George wasn't in good health during the sessions for Thanks, which you wouldn't tell by his engaging performances, but from the lack of new tunes. Out of the nine songs on the album, only three are originals, and they're all collaborations. That's a drawback only in retrospect -- it's hard not to wish that the last album George completed had more of his own songs -- but Lowell was a first-rate interpreter, so even covers of Allen Toussaint ("What Do You Want the Girl to Do"), Ann Peebles ("I Can't Stand the Rain") and Rickie Lee Jones ("Easy Money") wind up sounding of piece with the original songs. George's music rolls so easy, the album can seem a little slight at first, but it winds up being a real charmer. Yes, a few songs drift by and, yes, Jimmy Webb's vaudevellian "Himmler's Ring" feels terribly out of place, but Lowell's style is so distinctive and his performances so soulful, it's hard not to like this record if you've ever had a fondness for Little Feat. After all, it's earthier and more satisfying than any Feat album since Feats Don't Fail Me Now and it has the absolutely gorgeous "20 Million Things," the last great song George ever wrote. (Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of allmusic)
Tracklist :
1. "What Do You Want the Girl to Do" – 4:46
2. "Honest Man" – 3:45
3. "Two Trains" – 4:32
4. "Can't Stand the Rain" – 3:21
5. "Cheek to Cheek" – 2:23
6. "Easy Money" – 3:29
7. "Twenty Million Things" – 2:50
8. "Find a River" – 3:45
9. "Himmler's Ring" – 2:28
Personnel
Lowell George - guitar, vocals
Bonnie Raitt - vocals
James Newton Howard - keyboards
Chuck Rainey - bass
Denny Christianson - keyboards
David Foster - keyboards
Chilli Charles - drums
Nicky Hopkins - keyboards, horn
Jim Price - horn
Jim Keltner - drums
Jim Gordon - drums
Michael Baird - drums, bass
Dennis Belfield - bass
Bobby Bruce - violin, guitar
Turner Stephen Bruton - guitar, horn
Dennis Christianson - horn
Luis Damian - guitar & keyboards
Gordon DeWitte - keyboards, piano
Maxine Dixon - piano
Arthur Gerst - piano
Jimmy Greenspoon - guitar, piano
Roberto Gutierrez - vocals, guitar, drums
Richie Hayward - drums
Jerry Jumonville - saxophone, guitar
Ron Koss - guitar
Darrell Leonard - horn, vocals
Maxayn Lewis - vocals
David Paich - drums
Jeff Porcaro - drums, guitar
Dean Parks - guitar & keyboards
Bruce Paulson - keyboards
Bill Payne - keyboards, vocals
Herb Pedersen - vocals
Joel Peskin - vocals, saxophone
John Phillips - saxophone, drums
Peggy Sandvig, Jim Self - drums
Floyd Sneed - drums, vocals
J.D. Souther - bass, vocals
Paul Stallworth - bass, guitar
Fred Tackett - guitar, vocals
Maxine Willard Waters - vocals
