| Dixie Chicken | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Little Feat |
| Cover: | Little_Feat_-_Dixie_Chicken.jpg |
| Released: | January 25, 1973 |
| Recorded: | Late 1972 |
| Studio: | Clover Recorders, Los Angeles Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood Sunset Sound, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 36:12 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. Records |
| Producer: | Lowell George |
| Prev Title: | Sailin' Shoes |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Feats Don't Fail Me Now |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
Dixie Chicken is the third studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1973, on Warner Bros. Records. The artwork for the front cover was by illustrator Neon Park[3] and is a reference to a line from the album's third song, "Roll Um Easy".
The album is considered their landmark album with the title track as their signature song that helped further define the Little Feat sound. The band added two members (guitarist Paul Barrere and percussionist Sam Clayton) to make the more complete and familiar line-up that continued until their 1979 breakup following the death of Lowell George. Bassist Kenny Gradney was brought in to replace original bassist Roy Estrada, who had left after the band's second album, Sailin' Shoes, to join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. This new line-up radically altered the band's sound, leaning toward New Orleans R&B/funk.
It was voted number 563 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).[4]
The title track was released as a single by Warner Bros. in March 1973 in the U.S., backed with "Lafayette Railroad" (WB 7689)[5] and in February 1975 in the UK, backed with "Oh Atlanta" (K 16524).[6]
Lowell George sings lead on all tracks, except where noted:
Side One
Side Two
A remastered and expanded edition of Dixie Chicken was released on June 23, 2023. This new edition is a 2-CD set, with the original album on disc one, and bonus material on disc two, labeled as Hotcakes, Outtakes & Rarities. Tracks 10 to 16 are a live recording from Boston, Massachusetts on April 1, 1973.