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Little Feat — Willin'
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Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 16:44
 

Everybody in my church loves this song soooo much!!!!
 

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 07:49
 
 mike_chouinard wrote:
To paraphrase Bonnie Raitt, I miss Lowell George more than I miss being eight years old. A great singer-songwriter and slide player with one of the greatest bands ever behind him.
 
She channels Lowell with her slide work.

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 07:43
 
I don't know about whites....but weed and wine is(uh....was) a hell of a combination.Especially in the 70's
Lowell was a friggin master song writer,guitar player,performer. 

pk53
Posted: Nov 04, 2012 - 22:53
 
 jmsmy wrote:
Funny story about me & this song.
When Linda sang it I always thought she said

"Drivin the back roads so I wouldn't get laid"

Which for a female truck driver makes a lot of sense - staying away from the truck stops and the other truck drivers.
 
Could be a true possibility, unfortunately......

yanet
(San Diego, CA)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 14:02
 
 denbear wrote:
I always sing along.
 
me too, can't resist
 

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 14:10
 
Funny story about me & this song.
When Linda sang it I always thought she said

"Drivin the back roads so I wouldn't get laid"

Which for a female truck driver makes a lot of sense - staying away from the truck stops and the other truck drivers.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 28, 2012 - 18:28
 
 narlyman wrote:
Another great artist lost.
 
I hear ya...  this is a great song from a fantastic album...

 

narlyman
(Fort Myers, Florida)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 09:19
 
Another great artist lost.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 09:14
 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song soooo much!!!!  This song is from a brilliant album...


 
 

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 09:12
 
One of my women friends uses the term Dallas Alice all the time.  Cracks me up!

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 24, 2011 - 15:24
 
 rado wrote:
Only thing better is the live version on Waiting for Columbus (one of the all time great live albums, IMHO).

-Ed
 
WFC is one of my desert island discs. Couldn't agree more.


cow-cow-boogie
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 21:52
 
yes, I love the Ry Cooder version too!
 cyesp wrote:
I've always liked the Ry Cooder version on Little Feat's first album better, more raw with mucho twang.  Inspired several failed attempts to learn to play guitar.
 



cow-cow-boogie
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 21:50
 
It makes me happy to see so many positive comments for this great song!

denbear
(Denver, Colorado)
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 21:43
 
I always sing along.

cyesp
(Denver)
Posted: Nov 19, 2011 - 21:53
 
I've always liked the Ry Cooder version on Little Feat's first album better, more raw with mucho twang.  Inspired several failed attempts to learn to play guitar.



old_shep
(Iowa)
Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 15:14
 
God I miss those days...

HeyAbbott
(Massachsetts, USA)
Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 22:08
 
It is Godlike isn't it?

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 22:06
 


We be dancing...  love it...



GlimmerTwin
(Northern California)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:13
 
Love Little feat.  Might want to check that release date?????  Early 70's i think.


djengs
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:11
 
perhaps already noted earlier in the comments, but I had heard somewhere Lowell wrote this while with the Mothers, and Frank said No to it- why dont you do it yourself? Thus was Little Feat born. Thanks, Frank! and rest in peace.

Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:09
 
Another gem I never would have heard if it wasn't for RP.  Great song.  Thanks Bill!

bill-1956
(The Greater Moncure Metro Area, NC)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:09
 
Bill agrees with Tippster

mike_chouinard
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:09
 
To paraphrase Bonnie Raitt, I miss Lowell George more than I miss being eight years old. A great singer-songwriter and slide player with one of the greatest bands ever behind him.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:09
 
Having been from Tuscon to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonapah as well as Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo and Blair (and many points further afield), I heart this song.


p2h2d2
(On the Lake)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:08
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:
Love the segue from 'Key to the Highway' to 'West Texas Highway' to this. Very nice

 
Well done Bill.  Thanks for a great morning...


arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 09:07
 
Oh yes...

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 15:14
 
8, because the Live version is a 10.

LaurieinTucson
(Tucson,AZ)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 15:13
 
Is this a Tucson theme?

a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 15:13
 
8{#Arrow}9

laozilover
(Left of Chicago and up)
Posted: May 01, 2011 - 19:47
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:
Love the segue from 'Key to the Highway' to 'West Texas Highway' to this. Very nice

 
  Me too!   and, OMG, to segue to LUCINDA WILLIAMS "Can't Let Go"!!!  Billy Gee's Greatest Segues strikes again!


gjones
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 04:21
 
YES!  You hit it this morning Bill nice work.  Great Tune

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 04:20
 
Love the segue from 'Key to the Highway' to 'West Texas Highway' to this. Very nice


p2h2d2
(On the Lake)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 14:33
 
Must be one heck of a route..."Should I tell him about the bats?  No, the poor bastard will see them soon enough." 

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 10:37
 
Yay, a song about stoned, coked up, & drunken truckers. well, it's more fun if you don't think about the lyrics while driving on the highway...

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 10:37
 


Sailin' Shoes was their second album, released in 1972... Willin' comes after Tripe Face Boogie on the album— both incredible songs... it is a great album... love it...

 


rado
(New England coast)
Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 10:35
 
Only thing better is the live version on Waiting for Columbus (one of the all time great live albums, IMHO).

-Ed

back_in_the_day
Posted: Jan 09, 2011 - 21:03
 
I can't believe I found the answer to my brother's request "who did that cool version of Willin' we used to listen to?" Its way down in the '05 comments: Sea Train.

jersey_birdman
Posted: Dec 11, 2010 - 09:36
 
Yes!  More Little Feat is better...  bumper stickers should be issued.

Dylan was doing a great cover of this one a few years back..  well, maybe a bit more than a few now but still.  GREAT stuff.

{#Clap}

bokey
(Up on the tightwire.One sides ice and one is fire.)
Posted: Nov 25, 2010 - 10:01
 
 azdcryan wrote:

damn right they do...love LF but the Crowes' version *smokes* this one

 
A mediocre guitar player and a mediocre singer do not one Lowell George maketh.

 In some cases one is better than 2.



ch83575
Posted: Nov 09, 2010 - 14:26
 
Simply perfect.

sailorgirl
(Vancouver)
Posted: Nov 09, 2010 - 14:25
 
God Like.     10    {#Motor}

FrankMc
Posted: Nov 09, 2010 - 14:24
 
What a perfect song for this very moment in my life. Yessir, life has it's ups and downs and it'll kick you around, but I'm still willin'.

careyz
Posted: Aug 06, 2010 - 02:31
 
Thank you! Little Feat rocks!

Sweet lyrics too.

I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet and I'm still... willin'
Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
Baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico, and I'm still

And I been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin


A bit slow... Took me a while to catch what he was saying at the end of the chorus (weed, whites, and wine)

 

Windspirit
(Fort Collins, Colorado)
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 - 05:44
 
Brings me back to my freshman year in collage.....great tune!

arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 - 05:33
 
wonderful

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida USA)
Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 09:35
 
 Webfoot wrote:
Instant flashback of riding with my Dad in his 1940's Diamond T flat-bed with the D-4 on the back, driving the backroads around the weigh station.  There was no weed nor whites involved, but still a fun memory.   10 
 
I hear you.  My part of the country is different, and it wasn't my Dad, but my friends on the state roads around Tuscaloosa (and in my case, there *was* some wine and weed involved), but this song and album are deeply connected to my psyche and feelings about my youth.  "Little Feat," "Sailin' Shoes," and "Dixie Chicken" should be in the collection of all self-respecting rock aficionados.  They are classic, beautiful, funny, essential albums, done by a musical genius who died too early....


Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: May 18, 2010 - 09:46
 
Instant flashback of riding with my Dad in his 1940's Diamond T flat-bed with the D-4 on the back, driving the backroads around the weigh station.  There was no weed nor whites involved, but still a fun memory.   10 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 18, 2010 - 09:32
 


This song is awesome...  love it...

 

jersey_birdman
Posted: May 02, 2010 - 16:13
 
YES

{#Clap}

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida USA)
Posted: May 02, 2010 - 16:12
 
My life would be immeasurably less rich without this album