Hellzapoppin

It's not surprising that Little Feat are on such blistering form during this 1975 WCBN broadcast, transmitted from the prestigious Orpheum Theatre in Boston on that year's Halloween Night, as the band had been honing their already-considerable skills to razor-sharp perfection during a consecutive 5-night residency at Paul's Mall - a smaller club in the city - prior to moving to the larger, 2,500-seat Orpheum for this concert. The North American tour of which these shows were part, was in support of Little Feat's fifth LP, the Last Record Album, released just days after this gig. Little Feat's first two albums were firmly rooted in the Blues, with the first featuring a medley of Howlin' Wolf numbers, Forty-Four Blues and How Many More Years. Released a year later, Sailin' Shoes, was another highly acclaimed release.