Thursday music corner: Little Feat, led by former Mothers of Invention member Lowell George from their formation in 1969 until 1979, were at the peak of their success around the time of their three US gold albums: Dixie Chicken (1973), Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974) and Time Loves a Hero (1977). Their career success was topped by the platinum-selling 1978 live double album Waiting for Columbus, which was recorded across shows at London's Rainbow Theatre and in Washington DC. Tensions within the group inspired in part by musical differences led to it disbanding in 1979, a short time before George's untimely death in Virginia from an accidental cocaine overdose at the age of 34. Other surviving members got the band back together in 1987, and since then it has released nine more studio albums.
Easy to Slip is the opening track on Little Feat's second album, Sailin' Shoes(1972), which features on its Neon Park-designed cover a cake on a swing, being observed by Mick Jagger drawn in the style of Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. Co-written with Martin Kibbee - credited pseudonymously on the album as Fred Martin - the track features additional percussion by Milt Holland of the famous Wrecking Crew band.
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