know who we were. We may have won over a few. But going out and playing in front of peo- ple who didn't know you, I think that was good for us. I joked with Shaun, I said, 'It must be cold. A lot of people have their arms folded.' So we just hammered it. We took it up every notch we had. We were very proud to play in front of
those folks. We had Jimmy Hall join us sev- eral nights. Fingers Taylor came up the last night in Detroit. He's from Jimmy Buffett's band. And Bonnie Bramlett joined us on "Dixie Chicken" in Nashville. We had played a lot with Bonnie years ago, and we had done a pretty big stand down at Richard's in Atlanta, on a tour when we were backing her up. We did our set and we'd go out and play hers.
Bonnie's great. Her new album is com- ing out on Charlie's Blue Hat label Yeah, great! And there's another fella I met from that label, Luke Reed. I hear he's doing some very good music. I'm hoping to spot- light that on the Little Feat radio hour. I think that's a contribution we can give to people like Luke. Which gets back to the internet again. Like we can kind of skirt around the system a little bit. One day it will be the sys- tem. It's just a great way of communicating with people. Here's something Michael, and I hope
you'll alert your readers to it, as well as take advantage of it yourself. There's a box set coming out September 5 on Rhino. In that set there's a booklet that has some really good in- sight into Lowell and into the group. I think most people are really going to enjoy it. It's four cd's. One of the four is a special disc of rarities. I think if Little Feat is an example of anything, it's an example of a group that just keeps going, when people say 'why don't you hang it up?' We very stubbornly keep going. It's a family, and Lowell was a huge part of it,
still is. But when we go onstage, we try to honor Lowell in every sense of the word when we play his songs. And with the newer songs, "Let it Roll," "Just Another Sunday," we honor our past. Now we are back to jamming again. We are improvising and trying to make each show a little different. Phil Lesh has got- ten up back into that. He kind of hit us square between the eyes. I read that Warren Haynes said a very similar thing. That's the great thing. There's a lot of hidden treasure out there today, like Phil and Friends, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck, of course Warren and Gov't Mule, Phish- that take a healthy look at music for music's sake, that takes you on a musical journey. Not for any pop mentality reason. Although we do write songs, very eclectic songs. So we are after a great musical time and a great musical journey.
I wanted to ask you about Shaun Mur- phy. Looking over the bio, I had no idea Shaun had worked on so many records, singing backup for Bob Seger. I also didn't realize that she was Stoney, from the old Meatloaf and Stoney record. When she came in, we had talked about sev- eral people as a lead singer, including Kim Wilson. But he wasn't ready to leave the Thunderbirds. But Shaun, she is such a gifted singer. She sings anything and everything. And she is a very adept blues singer. She has made us better singers, because she sings with us. Paul is great. My vocals are develop- ing. I attribute my confidence to sing to Shaun. She just surrounds you when she sings. She has her own style and voice. And as a writer she has really stepped up to the plate. She is on four songs on the new album as a lyricist. I had her help me on a song called "Eden's Wall," which was a title Paul let me borrow. She had this line she added, "A bro-
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