''Down on the Farm'' is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Little Feat. The album was completed and released shortly after the death of the band's founder and frontman,

Lowell George Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and founder/leader for the rock band Little Feat. Ear ...

, in 1979. It was their last original work for nine years. The band had announced their break-up in June 1979 during the making of the album. Little Feat would reform in 1987. The cover shows one of

Neon Park Neon Park (born Martin Muller, December 28, 1940 – September 1, 1993) was an American artist, comics artist and illustrator, best known for the images that have strongly defined covers for nearly every Little Feat album except for the band's ...

's several ''duck-girls'' - an allusion to "The Finishing Touch" by painter

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.Gil Elvgren - "The Finishing Touch" (1960)
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Track listing

Side One #"Down on the Farm" ( Paul Barrère) – 4:16 (lead singer: Paul Barrère) #"Six Feet of Snow" (

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) – 2:30 (lead singer: Lowell George) #"Perfect Imperfection" (Barrère, Tom Snow) – 3:46 (lead singer: Lowell George) #"Kokomo" (George) – 2:58 (lead singer: Lowell George) #"Be One Now" (George, Fred Tackett) – 4:05 (lead singer: Lowell George) Side Two #"Straight from the Heart" (George, Payne) – 4:59 (lead singer: Lowell George) #"Front Page News" (George, Payne) – 5:57 (lead singer: Lowell George) #"Wake up Dreaming" (Payne, Fran Payne) – 4:09 (lead singer: Bill Payne) #"Feel the Groove" (Clayton, Gordon DeWitty) – 4:49 (lead singer: Sam Clayton)

Charts

Personnel

Band Members

* Paul Barrère -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, vocals *

Sam Clayton Sam Clayton (born March 30, 1952) is an American singer and percussionist, primarily focusing on drums, conga and djembe, throughout his musical career. He is best known as a supporting vocalist and percussionist with the American rock band Lit ...

- congas, vocals *

- guitar, vocals (last album with group) *

Kenny Gradney Kenny Gradney, (born February 25, 1950) a native of Baton Rouge, is an American bassist and songwriter, best known as a member of the band Little Feat. He joined after their second album, replacing founding bassist Roy Estrada in 1972. Gradney ...

- bass *

Richie Hayward Richard "Richie" Hayward (February 6, 1946 – August 12, 2010) was an American drummer best known as a founding member and drummer in the band Little Feat. He performed with several bands and worked as a session player. Hayward also joined ...

- drums, vocals * Bill Payne - keyboards, synthesizer, vocals

Additional personnel

Rosemary Butler Rosemary Ann Butler (born April 6, 1947) is an American singer. She began her career playing bass guitar and singing in an all-female band named the Ladybirds while attending Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California. The band appeared ...

- backing vocals * Gordon DeWitty - keyboards *

Robben Ford Robben Lee Ford (born December 16, 1951) is an American blues, jazz, and rock guitarist. He was a member of the L.A. Express and Yellowjackets and has collaborated with Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Larry Carlton, Rick Sprin ...

- guitar *

Jerry Jumonville Jerome Noel Jumonville (December 5, 1941 – December 7, 2019), better known as Jerry Jumonville, was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll saxophonist, arranger, and composer. He began playing the saxophone as teenager. Jumonv ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

Sneaky Pete Kleinow Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow (August 20, 1934 – January 6, 2007) was an American country-rock musician. He is best known as a member of the band The Flying Burrito Brothers and as a session musician playing pedal steel guitar for such ar ...

- pedal steel guitar * David Lindley - guitar *

Earl Palmer Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Palmer was one of the most prolific studio musicians of a ...

- drums ("Feel the Groove") * Fran Payne - backing vocals * Bonnie Raitt - backing vocals *Dan Smith - backing vocals * Fred Tackett - guitar (solo on "Kokomo") *Lee Thornburg -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

* Julia Waters - backing vocals *

Luther Waters Luther may refer to: People * Martin Luther (1483–1546), German monk credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation * Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), American minister and leader in the American civil rights movement * Luther (give ...

- backing vocals *

Oren Waters Oren Waters is an American vocalist best known for his work with the backup singing group The Waters, his siblings: Luther, Maxine and Julia. As an ensemble, Waters has been a part of 260 gold and over 100 platinum albums with artists ranging from ...

- backing vocals *Maxine Willard Waters – backing vocals

References

{{Authority control 1979 albums Little Feat albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Lowell George Albums with cover art by Neon Park Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios