One of the Finest Live Albums Ever Released: The Legend of Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus Continues to Grow
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes for Revealing Sound: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 2x Gold CD Set of 1978 Effort Gets Right to the Point
When you think about the great live albums, several immediately come to mind. The Who's Live at Leeds. James Brown's Live at the Apollo. The Allman Brothers Band's At Fillmore East. Nirvana's Unplugged. And, while it is sometimes unjustifiably forgotten, Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus.
The last essential album the rootsy California band made, it stands as the group's peak accomplishment: a staggering confluence of energetic performances, skilled improvisations, and thematic expansion. Joined onstage by the Tower of Power horn section, Little Feat accentuates and remakes familiar arrangements, using the stage as a laboratory for unbridled creativity, New Orleans-spiced fun, and spontaneous interaction.
Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 2x Gold CD set presents Waiting for Columbus in the finest fidelity it's ever revealed on disc so that you can get a clear sense of the band's virtuosic interplay that still turns today.
Disc 1
- Join the Band (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977)
- Fat Man in the Bathtub (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977)
- All That You Dream (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977)
- Oh Atlanta (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977)
- Old Folks' Boogie (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/4/1977)
- Time Loves a Hero (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/4/1977)
- Day or Night (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/4/1977)
- Mercenary Territory (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/2/1977)
- Spanish Moon (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/8/1977)
Disc 2
- Dixie Chicken (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/3/1977)
- Tripe Face Boogie (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/3/1977)
- Rocket In My Pocket (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/2/1977)
- Willin' (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/8/1977)
- Don't Bogart That Joint (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/8/1977)
- A Apolitical Blues (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, 8/3/1977)
- Sailin' Shoes (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977)
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/9/1977)
