Little Feat:

Dixie Chicken:(1973)

Feats Don't Fail Me Know:(1974)

Waiting For Columbus:(1978)

My Dad was big Little Feat fan, so I heard these three albums quite a bit growing up. I remember being very intrigued by the tomato woman on the cover of Waiting For Columbus. I also remember thinking the song Dixie Chicken was just a funny little tune, and not the seamy tale of a hooker. As I grew up, I kind of disregarded Little Feat as some kind of soft rock. This image was cemented by seeing a modern day incarnation of the band at a festival in Santa Cruz. I think there was maybe one original member, and it was lame. So, flash forward to the age of about twenty, I'm getting into Elvis Costello in a big way, and I find out that he was such a big Little Feat fan that he wanted his first album to sound like them. I pulled out these old records, and finally discovered how cool Lowell George was as a songwriter, and guitar player. Not to mention the rest of the original lineup. So, yeah, there's my kind of uninteresting Little Feat story. Now go listen to Fat Man In The Bathtub. 

Chris Isaak:

Chris Isaak:(1986)

The first thing that ever struck me about Chris Isaak was his voice. The way he can effortlessly transition from full-throated low tones to highly impressive falsetto, just incredible. The only other person I've heard do that so well is Roy Orbison, but that comparison has been done to death. This is the only Chris Isaak vinyl I own, but I have several other albums on various media. You can still hear Isaak's sound growing, and forming on this, his second, album. It's a good album, but not my favorite. Forever Blue holds that place. It's also worth mentioning that anyone who works with such an underrated talent as Rowland Salley is alright in my book, the man wrote Killing The Blues.