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Honest Tunes
9-12-2006
“Calling The Children Home – Dr. John and Little Feat Big Time Festival Ticket Give-aways”

SET ONE: Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby, One For The Keepers, Calling The Children Home, Right Place Wrong Time, Such A Night, Romeo And Juliet > Donkey Town, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, See The Sky About To Rain, Don’t Do It

SET TWO: Below Radar, Seventh Story, Asphalt Funk > These Two Chairs, Hereos > Conrad, Give Me A Stone, Ride

ENCORE: Love Minus Zero / No Limit, Gentle On My Mind

THE BANDS :

Louis Jordan
John Ellis – One Foot In The Swamp
Little Feat
Dr. John
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris – All The Roadrunning
Jerry Garcia Band – Jerry Garcia Band
Neil Young w/ Levon Helm and Rick Danko – On The Beach
The Band – The Last Waltz

Particle – Transformations: Live For The People
Tea Leaf Green 8-26-2006 Charlottesville SBD
Widespread Panic 1-22-1996 Sit’N'Ski Matrix
Great American Taxi w/ Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon) 7-22-2006 Chicago

Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan At Budokan
Johnny Cash – Unearthed

TICKET-GIVEAWAY TONIGHT! We’re going to ask 2 trivia questions on the Radio Show , and the winners get a pair of tickets to see Dr. John or Little Feat perform this Friday-Saturday in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at the Big Time Festival. The number to call and win is 479-575-5883.

Call as soon as you hear us starting the trivia question. HINT: Possible answers to the Dr. John night-tripper ticket trivia question are “Guilded Splinters” or “Right Place Wrong Time.” What’s the question? Find out by listening tonight on http://dgold.info/radio EDIT: Congrats Liz!! She won tix to see Dr. John.

Then, we’ll give away a pair of tickets to see LITTLE FEAT this Saturday in Eurkea Springs. The trivia question then will be, “Which member of Little Feat has appeared on Honest Tunes Podcast for an interview this summer?” The HINT answer is: Fred Tackett. EDIT: Congrats Syd!! He won tickets to see Little Feat.

Listen to the Radio Show webcast tonight for a chance to Win Tickets to upcoming concerts in the Northwest Arkansas area, and hear new CD’s and classic tracks from the best of eclectic jambands and the full range of Americana roots.

Listen-live here at 8PM Central Time (9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific) tonight Tuesday 9-12-2006… 2 hour music webcast with a chance to win tix to a festival taking place this weekend in the Ozark mountain town of Eureka Springs, 45 minutes from Fayetteville!

CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME to Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Featuring
Sept 15 Dr John
Sept 16 Little Feat

Since we have been having so much fun in Jamaica! We are Calling The Children Home to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for another Little Feat and Fan get together, Sept 15th and 16th. Fred discovered this beautiful town in the spectacular Ozark Mountains and loves it so much that he has persuaded the city to host our tribe for a weekend party, Sept 15th and 16th, 2006.

In addition to the concerts by Dr. John and Little Feat there will be many other fun things to do. We are having a Feat Fan Jam in the beautiful Basin Park right across the street from the Auditorium where the shows will be presented. There will be a zany Little Feat Parade featuring many of the characters from your favorite Little Feat songs.

Tiffany Christopher Band is playing a show with dinner included, in town.

Sugar Free Allstars are playing after Dr. John, over at Chelsea’s.

Speakeasy is playing a post-Little Feat on Saturday with Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), and Fred Tackett is expected to sit in at Chelsea’s.

For Lodging or Camping, be sure to let them know that you are a Feat Fan so you have access to special rates.

Here’s a great article from the statewide newspaper. I always enjoy Jack Hill’s writing about music. In this story there are quotes from Fred Tackett that echo some of the things he said in his interview podcast on this site. Check out these excerpts:

Eureka knocks socks off of Little Feat performer

BY JACK W. HILL
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006
URL: www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/1662…

How are you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen Eureka Springs ? That’s not quite the tune being sung these days by Little Feat guitarist Fred Tackett, but he does have a farm in Southern California — although he’s keeping it — and he now has a second home back in his native Arkansas, in the tiny resort town of Eureka Springs.

Although he was reared in Little Rock, Tackett famously flew the coop when quite young, seeking his musical fortune, and finding it in a variety of places until he settled on a permanent gig in the re-formed Little Feat, a rock band that managed to long ago fuse California rock with a Southern boogie sound and come up with a sound that oozes bits of blues, jazz, country, rockabilly and folk. Perhaps the band’s bestknown song, “Dixie Chicken,” exemplifies the sound.

Tackett became a believer a year ago when he opened Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s concert at the Eureka Springs Folk Festival. His attention then turned to getting the other six members of Little Feat to also experience the joys of the out-of-the-way hamlet in Northwest Arkansas.

“I just love that town,” Tackett gushes over the phone from a recent tour stop in Canada. “The first time I spent more than a day there, I said ‘This place is Little Feat territory.’ So when we got hired to come and play this ‘Big Time Festival’ show, we started telling our fans that we’re having a big party there, and now we learn that our fans from all over the country, from Colorado, New York, Canada, everywhere, are coming there. A large number of our fans are intrigued by the idea of Arkansas, a place they’ve never been. One couple even told us they were going there to look for a house.

“ We hope to make it an annual event, similar to a get-together we do in Jamaica in late January and early February, where we take over a beautiful resort there. We wanted to also have a similar sort of gathering accessible to more people, and the first time I took a look at Eureka, I felt that was it.”

And when his mother moved from Little Rock to Berryville, it gave Tackett even more motivation to check out the surroundings himself. His mother now lives on Holiday Island, a resort / retirement community north of Eureka Springs.

“It was through my mother that we were introduced to Eureka,” Tackett adds. “We stayed at her place in Berryville until we found the right place. When I found out that the auditorium there had been inaugurated by John Philip Sousa, a trumpet player, which was my first instrument, I was even more intrigued at the thought of playing there.”

The Eureka Springs show will be one among some 100 concerts the band will log this year, Tackett reckons. When the pace of touring eases up, band members are hoping to start work on a new studio album. Their last such recording, Kickin’ at the Barn, was recorded at Tackett’s barn in Topanga Canyon, Calif., and released in October 2003. The album also marked the debut of Little Feat’s own record label, Hot Tomato Records.

Many a live Little Feat album has been released in recent years, especially since the band endorses the taping of shows by fans, a policy that the Grateful Dead pioneered.

“Every one of our shows is recorded by someone,” Tackett says. “We encourage it.”

Considering the band released its debut album in 1971, there is much to choose from when deciding on the songs each night. It’s something that Tackett laughs about a bit.

“Paul [Barrere ], our singer / guitarist, has a data base of songs and he makes sure we don’t play the same set when we go back to places. So we start with the list and then it gets decimated into a free-forall when we start playing. It becomes very improvisatory, changing, as we take his game plan and then we see how it goes. Anything is liable to happen. We’ve never had a lighting person, as a result, since we couldn’t prepare the lighting cues and all that.”

The band was formed by Lowell George in 1970, and at the time only contained him and Bill Payne (vocals, keyboards, accordion ), Roy Estrada (bass, vocals ) and Richie Hayward (drums, percussion and vocals ). In 1973, George, Payne and Hayward added Paul Barrere (vocals, guitar ), Kenny Gradney (bass ) and Sam Clayton (congas, percussion and vocals ); Estrada departed.

After George’s death in 1979, as the group was recording the album Down on the Farm, the band went on hiatus for a time, re-forming in 1988, and adding Craig Fuller (vocals, guitar and accordion ) and Tackett (guitars, mandolin and trumpet ). In 1992, Fuller departed, replaced by the band’s first female member, Shaun Murphy (vocals, percussion ).

Little Feat’s best-known songs are “Willin’,” “ Easy to Slip, ” “Tripe Face Boogie,” “ Sailin’ Shoes, ” “Fat Man in the Bathtub,” “ Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, ” “Oh, Atlanta,” “ Time Loves a Hero, ” “Rocket in My Pocket,” “ Old Folks Boogie ” and “Roll ’Em Easy.”

During Little Feat’s not-solittle career, the band has collaborated or recorded with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Brian Wilson, Beck, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker and Jonny Lang.

Since the band will arrive early in Tackett’s new hometown, the band may just be able to watch one of their musical favorites, Dr. John, whose show is Friday night. Sam Clayton, Little Feat’s percussionist, is rumored to be sitting in with the doctor, who has recently been profiled on the CBS-TV Sunday Morning show about his life and times and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Dr. John’s hometown.

“It should be a great weekend in Eureka,” Tackett says. “We gave it this name, ‘Calling the Children Home,’ after a song we did back in ’ 98, which took its name from a legendary Dixieland trumpet player, Buddy Vogel, who would explain that was what he was doing when he played the clubs in New Orleans and would first open all the windows so that everyone would know he was playing. He said he was ‘ calling the children home. ’”
The above excerpted article is Copyright © 2001-2006 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.

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