The album cover of this pressing reminds me of an old-timey diner, but that might be the ketchup-red lettering and mustard-yellow background. Of course, when you reprint something just to slap one extra song on it you might end up with something as basic as this. That being said, yeah I dig it.

The instrumentation grabs me right away in a familiar way, like an old Colorado sunset. Something about this sounds so familiar, yet I just can’t figure out why. I turned the sleeve over to peruse the back credits only to find that this repress doesn’t list them. Naturally, I head to Discogs to look for liner notes and musician credits. I found the original release, which was titled Amazing. Sure enough, there it is. As I read the picture of the back of the jacket I focus my eyes on a group whose (nearly) entire wax discography sits right there on my shelf. “Co-Starring” The Amazing Little Feat.

I’ve collected all of Little Feat’s Lowell George-era LPs, including Lowell’s solo effort Thanks I’ll Eat It Here. Something about his presence made this group better. The post-George days just don’t do it for me. Conversely, though, his daughter Inara is fairly well represented on my shelf with her ventures in The Bird And The Bee. Check her electropop group out sometime; great melodies and harmonies.

Back to Kathy. The new song, the title track, is probably my least liked song on the album. It is just a such boring track. I’m sorry Kathy. The rest of the album is much better though. If this started off with “Pour Your Wine”, it’d have taken off much more smoothly. “Gypsy Dancer” encompasses the title with a wailing yelp from Kathy during the intro. It almost sounds like Diva Plavalaguna, the blue opera singer from The Fifth Element. Paging: Chris Tucker.

“Cannibal Forest” shares that same moonlight wail lying in the background of the instrumentation. The chorus spouts “Danger/We’re lost in the cannibal forest/Stranger/Caught in the cannibal forest”. Those backup singers chanting “danger” every few bars provide an eerie backdrop for a fairly standard funk-ified tune. It also gives me slight reminiscence of “Danger! High Voltage!” by Electric Six. “Danger, danger!”

All in all, a decent album if you’re a fan of Little Feat. It was released by Discreet Records, Frank Zappa’s label. You might recall that Lowell George was originally apart of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention before heading out on his own. The “family feel” of Little Feat/Frank Zappa/Robert Palmer and others slots this album into a predetermined category, but it resides there in great company.

Kathy’s career ended when Discreet closed their doors, but outside of this album she recorded with at least two other bands; The Gas Co. and Daughters of Albion. The Gas Co. were a run of the mill 60s garage pop group, though the tunes were decent. “Blow Your Mind” was produced by Jack Nitzsche and released by Mirwood Records in 1965.

Later, before going solo, Kathy would team up with Greg Dempsey to form Daughters of Albion. Daughters of Albion leaned more on the psychedelic side of things and would be as far out there as Kathy’s music would reach. This was when she was still going by Kathy Yesse. DoA released just one self titled album, led by the single “Well Wired”. The single fell flat.

Spotify has Kathy’s solo album available for streaming, check it out below.

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