SAILIN' SHOES

Created on 28/07/2005
Latest update on 15/04/2024

Artist: Van Dyke Parks
Author: Lowell George
Label: WB
Year: 1972

On Discover America featuring the author. Van Dyke delayed the release to permit Lowell the introduction of his own song on the second Feat album. Both cowrote Lowell's Cheek To Cheek.

Covers:

1972:

Little Feat [on album Sailin' Shoes]

1974:

Robert Palmer [also with Lowell George]

1984:

Sam Bush

1997:

Randy Newman & Valerie Carter [on a Lowell George tribute]

2016:

Sazerac

Lyrically and melodically (slightly) linked with gospel tune Traveling Shoes. A version by Mitchell's Christian Singers (amateurs from North Carolina) was reissued on double cd The Gospel Sound (Columbia/Legacy).

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