Raw Tomatos

Raw Tomatos Artist: Little Feat
Label: Hot Tomato Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 606673020323
EAN: 0606673020323
ASIN: B000067UMZ


Release Date: 2002-06-18

Raw Tomatos


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Tracks:

  1. Crack in Your Door
  2. The Fan
  3. Trouble
  4. Apolitical Blues
  5. Fat Man in the Bathtub
  6. Sailin' Shoes
  7. Teenage Nervous Breakdown
  8. Ass for Days
  9. Gringo
  10. Rocket In My Pocket
  11. Long Distance Love
  12. Long Time 'Til I Get Over You
  13. Change in Luck
  14. Mojo Haiku
  15. Those Feat'll Steer You Wrong Sometimes
  16. Strawberry Flats
  17. Six Feet Of Snow
  18. Shake Me Up
  19. Business As Usual

Tracks:

  1. Rock 'n Roll Doctor
  2. Time Loves a Hero
  3. The Blues Don't Tell It All
  4. Voodoo Jam
  5. Honest Man
  6. Blue Jean Blues
  7. Rocket In My Pocket
  8. Old Folks Boogie
  9. Rio Esperanza
  10. Borderline Blues
  11. Let It Roll
  12. Missin' You

Similar Items:

  1. Ripe Tomatos
  2. Down Upon the Suwannee River
  3. Live at the Rams Head
  4. Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003
  5. Extended Versions

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Essential Material for the True Fans.......2003-04-19

The original Little Feat can be easily ranked among the five or ten most essential American Rock & Roll Bands of all time. Lowell George was simply brilliant as a songwriter, guitar player, vocalist, and bandleader. His untimely death in 1979 was as tragic as the passing of Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, and Brian Jones.

Little Feat was a uniquely talented band, and the remaining members were able to regroup and become a substantial musical entity in their own right. This album, along with the complimentary release "Ripe Tomatos" provides compelling evidence that the current incarnation of Little Feat (Feat Mark III) is as relevant as any band on the planet today, in addition this set provides further validation of Lowell George as a bona fide musical genius.

i would recommend that newcomers begin with the following albums as the essential Little Feat primer:

Salin Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Waiting for Columbus (GET THE REISSUE)
Little Feat (first album)
Hoy Hoy
Last Record Album
Shake Me Up
Under the Radar

This solid CD compliments the others and has essential versions of Borderline Blues, Blue Jean Blues, Strawberry Flats (post Lowell version), among others.

Highly recommended from a lifelong fan.

4 out of 5 stars Manure Milkshake.......2002-08-18

All of a cow's output is valuable to SOMEone -- ice cream for kids, cowpies for the farmers' fields -- but their value goes down when you mix 'em together.

That's the problem with this collection, which bundles together unreleased live tracks from several editions of Little Feat. Each incarnation of the band is good and has loyal followers, but the 30-year span leads to some differences in tastes.

Me, I'm an old guy, and I think no rock band anywhere was better than the original Feat, so the Lowell George-era tracks in this collection are treasures to me. (I don't even mind the unpolished sound quality, a far cry from their gorgeous live classic, Waiting for Columbus). It's just a treat to hear him sing and play again, and to catch the group's magical chemistry, amazing drive, and humorous abandon. It's like finding a scrapbook of long gone friends - bittersweet for sure, but heartwarming.

But I can do without the most recent stuff, which though competent is unremarkable. The music is well-played but generic southern rock, sticking close to the studio versions. The current lineup has many rabid fans who will no doubt treasure hearing some new rockin' versions of "their" Feat (also with rough soundboard mixes and cassette fidelity).

So overall, this collection will really please no one but the most diehard fans, or those willing to ignore the parts not directed at them. If you don't count yourself in those categories, stick with their other releases.

5 out of 5 stars ketchup to raw tomatos with relish.......2002-07-05

what a brilliant set of rarities...for those who don't have it, and for those who don't "get it", raw tomatos (and its companion, ripe tomatos) could be categorized as authorized bootlegs, compiled and sanctioned by the group itself on their own new record label... and what performances - too many to list, but suffice to say that it is a gumbo of recordings that show off the breadth and depth of their musicianship and their uniquely skewed cartoon americana perspective.

with this (and hopefully much more of the same) little feat gives further evidence that their legacy equals that of the other great american bands - ... but their continued musical growth is astonishing. buy this, and then go see them...

5 out of 5 stars CLASSIC with a Capital C.......2002-07-02

Although sound quality may not be the greatest on all tracks Raw is still an awesome collection of some of the finest pieces of live Feat shows covering all era's- Lowell, Craig and Shaun.

4 out of 5 stars

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  1. From Out of the Blue ~ The Sky Kings
  2. T-Bird Party ~ Various Artists
  3. Ultimate Sin
  4. Survivor ~ Survivor
  5. Skin It Back ~ John Cougar
  6. Sedated in the Eighties, Vol. 4 ~ Various Artists
  7. Mishap ~ Lozenge
  8. Bruce McCabe ~ Bruce McCabe
  9. Heatwave ~ Phoenix
  10. Mr. Moonlight ~ Foreigner

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Live at Semper Opera ~ Jean-Luc Ponty

The Gene Ammons Story: Organ Combos ~ Gene Ammons

Dust Devil ~ The Bill Horvitz Band

Jazzy Christmas ~ The Countdown Singers

Plays Duke Ellington ~ Bob Haggart

Flipenstein ~ Flip Phillips

Dawning of the Millennium ~ Robert Swift

O Genio Do Calpso ~ Wanderley Andrade

Aquarela Brasileira 6 ~ Emilio Santiago

Yiddische Blues ~ Budapest Klezmer Band