Little Feat Release Second Single From Upcoming Blues Album

Little Feat have released a second single from their upcoming blues album, Sam's Place, out on May 17. The single, “Can’t Be Satisfied,” is described as a rollicking cover of the classic Muddy Waters song. It features conga player Sam Cutler on lead vocals and special guest Michael “The Bull” LoBue on harmonica. The video for "Can’t Be Satisfied” was filmed at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis and directed by Grant James and Jesse Lauter. Check it out below.

Bill Payne, the band's keyboardist, says: “You want to know what’s as fun as listening to Little Feat on Sam’s Place? Watching the video of ‘Can’t Be Satisfied!’ You are brought into the studio with us. The smiles are real, the music kicks, and you can’t get much closer to the action than this!”

The other members of the band's current lineup include Fred Tackett on guitars and vocals, Kenny Gradney on bass, Scott Sharrard on guitars and vocals, and Tony Leone on drums and vocals. Their individual musical chops and collective chemistry light up the nine-track Sam's Place, which was waxed at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis last year, except for “Got My Mojo Working (Live),” which was recorded live at the Boulder Theatre in Boulder, CO, on December 17, 2022. This is the first Little Feat album recorded with new members Sharrard and Leone.

“This song ('Can’t Be Satisfied') was one we played back-to-back for many years with ‘Hot Tamales,’” Payne adds. “Tony Leone got hold of the rhythm track and gave it new life with a walking tempo. Yes, it’s a dark song with pistols in the face and the like, but there is a joy in the track, uplifting and impossible not to love.” 

“You can’t make a blues album without playing some Muddy Waters,” says Sharrard, “and Little Feat has performed this on live shows over the years. What sets this rendition apart is Tony Leone's nod to Levon Helm with the drum groove. This arrangement takes you from Mississippi, up to Chicago and lands down in Arkansas, where both Fred Tackett and Levon Helm were born." 

“Can’t Be Satisfied” follows the album’s first single/video “You’ll Be Mine,” a cover of the Willie Dixon-written chestnut popularized by Howlin’ Wolf. 

Sam's Place also features band’s longtime friend, Bonnie Raitt, who duets with Cutler on another Muddy Waters song called “Long Distance Call.” The album’s other special guests are Michael “Bull” LoBue on harmonica, Marc Franklin on trumpet, and Art Edmaiston on saxophone.

Cutler has the last word: “I'm very happy because I was never expecting anything like that. I mean, I have wanted to, but I just wasn't expecting it to come to fruition. It was a long wait, but it’s satisfying.” 

Little Feat will be touring this summer with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, and will also headline shows with The Wood Brothers, Los Lobos, Marc Broussard, Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, The Steel Wheels, and Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. For their Baltimore, MD show on June 14, The band will perform their classic 1973 album, Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, in its entirety. 

For more info on the upcoming album and tour, head over to littlefeat.net.