It’s absolutely uncanny to listen to this latest Little Feat album and notice how the stylistic similarities of Strike Up The Band evoke the vintage releases of their namesake lineups from the mid-to-late Seventies. Implausible as such comparisons may sound, they are wholly apt because neither the musicianship nor the songwriting sounds forced nor fake. The resulting unity isn’t not all that dissimilar from the best-known period of Little Feat’s history, ushered in with the six-man lineup of 1973’s Dixie Chicken. And, like the additional guests on Strike Up The Band, his presence is neither superfluous nor extraneous to the proceedings. But as the penultimate cut here, it does cement the overriding impression of this incarnation of Little Feat drawing ever so artfully upon the roots of the band, without sounding derivative.