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Shake Me Up

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Shake Me Up
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1991
Length53:29
LabelMorgan Creek
Producer
Little Feat chronology
Representing the Mambo
(1990)
Shake Me Up
(1991)
Ain't Had Enough Fun
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

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 cover that he provided the group before his death from ALS in 1993.[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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"Fuller4:19
7."Boom Box Car"Barrère4:37
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

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Little Feat

Additional musicians

Production

  • George Massenburg – mixing
  • Nathaniel Kunkel – assistant engineer
  • Doug Sax – mastering engineer
  • Alan Yoshida – mastering engineer
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordination

Imagery

  • Neon Park – cover art
  • Kosh – design and art direction
  • Melodie Gimpel – photos

Notes

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  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Little Feat - Shake Me Up". AllMusic. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
  2. ^ "Neon Park".