Editing Dixie Chicken

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Dixie Chicken
| type       = Studio
| artist     = [[Little Feat]]
| cover      = Little_Feat_-_Dixie_Chicken.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = January 25, 1973
| recorded   = Late 1972
| studio     =  Clover Recorders, [[Los Angeles]]<br>[[Warner Records|Warner Bros. Recording Studios]], [[North Hollywood]]<br> [[Sunset Sound]], Los Angeles
| genre      = 
* [[Swamp rock]]<ref name= "Larkin 1999">{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|title=All-Time Top 1000 Albums|url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/page/179/mode/1up|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/mode/1up|date=1999|archive-date= October 8, 2021|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|isbn=0-7535-0354-9|page=152}}</ref>
* [[funk rock]]<ref name= "Larkin 1999">{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|title=All-Time Top 1000 Albums|url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/page/179/mode/1up|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/mode/1up|date=1999|archive-date= October 8, 2021|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|isbn=0-7535-0354-9|page=152}}</ref>
* [[New Orleans rhythm and blues|New Orleans R&B]]<ref name=Erlewine/>
| length     = 36:12 
| label      = [[Warner Records|Warner Bros. Records]]
| producer   = [[Lowell George]]
| prev_title = [[Sailin' Shoes]]
| prev_year  = 1972
| next_title = [[Feats Don't Fail Me Now]]
| next_year  = 1974
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Dixie Chicken
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Dixie Chicken
 | single1date = 1973
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=Erlewine>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r11760/review}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|accessdate=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=May 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525112140/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Dixie Chicken''''' is the third studio album by the American rock band [[Little Feat]], released in 1973, on [[Warner Records|Warner Bros. Records]]. The artwork for the front cover was by illustrator [[Neon Park]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm|title=Neon Park|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-date=2022-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511203224/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=Erlewine/>

It was voted number 563 in [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' 3rd Edition (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=191}}</ref>

The title track was released as a single by [[Warner Bros.]] in March 1973 in the U.S., backed with "Lafayette Railroad" (WB 7689)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/wb7689us|title=Little Feat - Dixie Chicken|via=www.45cat.com}}</ref> and in February 1975 in the UK, backed with "Oh Atlanta" (K 16524).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/k16524|title=Little Feat – Dixie Chicken|via=www.45cat.com|access-date=2022-05-18|archive-date=2022-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518223601/http://www.45cat.com/record/k16524|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Track listing==
[[Lowell George]] sings lead on all tracks, except where noted:

Side One
#"Dixie Chicken" ([[Lowell George]], Fred Martin (Martin Fyodor Kibbee)) – 3:55 
#"Two Trains" (George) – 3:06
#"Roll Um Easy" (George) – 2:30 
#"On Your Way Down" ([[Allen Toussaint]]) – 5:31 
#"Kiss It Off" (George) – 2:56

Side Two
#"Fool Yourself" ([[Fred Tackett]]) – 3:10
#"Walkin' All Night" ([[Paul Barrere|Paul Barrère]], [[Bill Payne]]) – 3:35 (lead vocals: Barrere, Payne)
#"Fat Man in the Bathtub" (George) – 4:29
#"Juliette" (George) – 3:20 
#"Lafayette Railroad" (George, Payne) – 3:40 (instrumental)

===Deluxe edition===
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.

{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| title1 = Two Trains (demo)
| writer1 = George
| length1 = 3:19
| title2 = Fat Man In The Bathtub (demo)
| writer2 = George
| length2 = 3:58
| title3 = Walkin' All Night (alternate version)
| writer3 = Payne, Barrere
| length3 = 3:40
| title4 = Roll Um Easy (alternate version)
| writer4 = George
| length4 = 2:36
| title5 = On Your Way Down (alternate version)
| writer5 = A. Toussaint
| length5 = 5:57
| title6 = Eldorado Slim
| writer6  = Payne, George
| length6 = 4:42
| title7 = Juliette (alternate version)
| writer7 = George
| length7 = 3:34
| title8 = Hi Roller (Ace In The Hole)
| writer8 = Barrere
| length8 = 2:28
| title9 = Dixie Chicken (alternate version)
| writer9 = George, Martin
| length9 = 4:06
| title10 = Two Trains
| writer10 = George
| length10 = 3:23
| title11 = Got No Shadow
| writer11 = Payne
| length11 = 6:53
| title12 = On Your Way Down
| writer12 = A. Toussaint
| length12 = 6:26
| title13 = Walkin' All Night
| writer13 = Payne, Barrere
| length13 = 3:34
| title14 = Fat Man In The Bathtub
| writer14 = George
| length14 = 5:31
| title15 = Willin'
| writer15 = George
| length15 = 4:31
| title16 = A Apolitical Blues
| writer16 = George
| length16 = 3:33
}}

==Personnel==
===Little Feat===
*[[Lowell George]] – vocals, guitar, [[Cowbell (instrument)|cowbell]], flute
*[[Paul Barrere]] – backing vocals, guitar, co-lead vocals on "Walkin' All Night"
*[[Bill Payne]] – backing vocals, keyboards, [[synthesizer]], co-lead vocals on "Walkin' All Night"
*[[Kenny Gradney]] – bass
*[[Richie Hayward]] – backing vocals, drums
*[[Sam Clayton]] – [[conga]]s

===Additional personnel===

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*[[Fred Tackett]] – guitar, mandolin, trumpet
*[[Bonnie Bramlett]] – backing vocals
*[[Malcolm Cecil]] – synthesizer
*[[Tret Fure]] – backing vocals
*[[Danny Hutton]] – backing vocals
*[[Milt Holland]] – [[tabla]]
*[[Gloria Jones]] – backing vocals
*Debbie Lindsey – backing vocals
*[[Bonnie Raitt]] – backing vocals
*Stephanie Spruill – backing vocals 
*[[Neon Park]] – cover art
{{div col end}}

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001183526/https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/littlefeat/albums/album/147593/review/5940945/dixie_chicken ''Dixie Chicken'' – album review] at ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
* [https://www.discogs.com/master/119957-Little-Feat-Dixie-Chicken ''Dixie Chicken''] at Discogs
* {{youtube|dAOCw72yzII|"Fat Man In The Bathtub"}} – provided by [[Warner Music Group]]
* {{youtube|yaHEfJApEVM|"Dixie Chicken"}} – provided by Warner Music Group

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[[Category:Warner Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Lowell George]]
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[[Category:Albums recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders]]