It may have been the obtuse artistic and lyrical sensibilities of the late Lowell George that garnered Little Feat its cachet with critics, but it was the band's potent, Southern-rooted musical punch that carried it to fame in the late '70s. It's that dedicated sense of musicality--since infused with a little jazz, cool--that carried Feat onward for two decades, making them jam-band godfathers documented in this live set in the bargain. Recorded at a festival in Florida's Suwannee River Park, this double-disc's 17 live tracks pay early homage to George's legacy with swamp-savory workouts of "Spanish Moon," and "Sailin' Shoes." But any sense of nostalgia is blunted by the band's muscular groove in the show's first half and its adventurous, jam-savvy spirit in the last. There they range from lugubrious workouts of Bob Dylan's "It Takes A Lot to Laugh" and "Tripe Face Boogie" to a jazz and classically infused, near half-hour trek through "Dixie Chicken" and the gentle "Willin'" and rough-'n'-tumble "Fat Man in the Bathtub" that closes out the set. --Jerry McCulley