Shake Me Up

Shake Me Up
Studio album by Little Feat
Released	September 24, 1991
Genre	Southern rock, swamp rock
Length	53:29
Label	Morgan Creek
Producer	George Massenburg, Bill Payne
Little Feat chronology
Representing the Mambo (1990) Shake Me Up (1991) Ain't Had Enough Fun (1995)

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Shake Me Up is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). It was the last album they recorded with frontman Craig Fuller. It is also their only album to feature no lead vocals from keyboardist Bill Payne.

Among the album's contributors were Bonnie Bramlett (now Sheridan) who had last featured with the group on Dixie Chicken in 1973 and Valerie Carter who had worked closely with the group's founder Lowell George in his latter years. Another backing vocalist, Shaun Murphy, got to sing lead on a line of Spider's Blues (Might Need It Sometime). Murphy would join the group in Craig Fuller's place after he left in 1993.

The album cover art is by Neon Park the last he provided the group with before his death from ALS in 1993.^[2]

Track listing[]

1. "Spider's Blues (Might Need it Sometime)" (Barrère, Payne, Tackett) – 4:19
2. "Shake Me Up" (Barrère, Fuller, Kibbee, Payne) – 4:52
3. "Things Happen" (Barrère, Payne, Tackett) – 4:25
4. "Mojo Haiku" (Fuller, Payne) – 5:12
5. "Loved and Lied To" (Barrère, Fuller, Hayward, Payne) – 5:00
6. "Don't Try So Hard" (Fuller) – 4:19
7. "Boom Box Car" (Barrère) – 4:37
8. "Fast & Furious" (Barrère, Clayton, Payne, Tackett) – 4:13
9. "Livin' on Dreams" (Barrère, Fuller, Payne, Tackett) – 5:26
10. "Clownin'" (Barrère, Tackett) – 4:44
11. "Down in Flames" (Barrère, Fuller, Kibbee, Park, Payne) – 6:22

Personnel[]

• Paul Barrère - vocals, guitar, slide guitar
• Sam Clayton - percussion, backing vocals
• Craig Fuller - vocals, guitar
• Kenny Gradney - bass
• Richie Hayward - drums, backing vocals
• Bill Payne - keyboards, backing vocals
• Fred Tackett - guitar, acoustic guitar, trumpet

Additional personnel[]

• Valerie Carter - backing vocals on tracks 4, 5 & 9
• Shaun Murphy - backing vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 8 & 10 (joined band 1993)
• Bonnie Sheridan - backing vocals on tracks 3 and 10
• The Memphis Horns - brass on track 3

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