Rooster Rag

Personnel: Fred Tackett (vocals, guitar, mandolin, trumpet); Paul Barrére (vocals, guitar); Bill Payne (vocals, keyboards); Sam Clayton (vocals, percussion); Gabriel Ford (drums).Audio Mixer: Johnny Lee Schell.Liner Note Authors: Dennis McNally; Bill Payne.Recording information: Ultratone Studios.Photographers: Polly Payne; Bill Payne.For the better part of two decades, Little Feat have been a touring band that occasionally records, surviving the rough and tumble of the road and of life itself. Founding member Richie Hayward passed in 2010, by which time Gabe Ford had taken over his drumming duties, and 2012's Rooster Rag marks the first time Ford has anchored a Feat studio recording, but it's also the group's first collection of new material in almost a decade. The last was the 2003 Kickin' It at the Barn -- Join the Band, a star-studded stroll through their back pages, appeared in 2008 -- and Rooster Rag feels a bit more focused than that ambling affair, lacking some of the casual vi