The members of the group that has the legal right to call itself "Little Feat" perhaps are to be complemented for their realization, after three albums, that having
Craig Fuller imitate the voice of the band's deceased founder,
Lowell George, was ethically suspect. Or maybe they didn't realize; this album's liner notes say only that "mister fuller decided that the road life was not for him." In any case, the surviving "featsters" have cast against type, recruiting one
Shaun Murphy, who can't imitate
George but certainly can imitate longtime
Feat booster
Bonnie Raitt. The addition of a female voice allows for greater variety in lyric-writing and some entertaining call-and-response singing, however, and more important, it begins to free the group from the ghost of
Lowell George. The featsters locate themselves more than ever in the mythology of New Orleans, alternating second-line rhythms with
John Lee Hooker boogie. One may still wish they had found another name to distinguish themselves from
George's group, but
Ain't Had Enough Fun is a worthy addition to their catalog on its own terms. ~ William Ruhlmann