Ronnie McCoury Was ‘Willin’’ To Join Little Feat In Louisville

Little Feat brought their tour with The Hot Tomato Horns to the Louisville Palace Theatre in Louisville on Thursday night. The concert was the band’s lone date this year with support from The Travelin’ McCourys and featured mandolinist joining Little Feat during their headlining set.

Little Feat — co-founding member, keyboardist Bill Payne, longtime members, bassist Kenny Gradney, percussionist Sam Clayton and multi-instrumentalist Fred Tackett, and guitarist Scott Sharrard and drummer Tony Leone — recruited Ronnie McCoury to add mandolin to the late Lowell George’s classic “Willin’.” A hallmark of Little Feat’s repertoire, the often-covered “Willin’” is among the legendary band’s best-known songs.

Sharrard played acoustic guitar and sang lead on the McCoury-assisted performance of “Willin’” last night in Louisville. After a solo by Payne, McCoury was given the spotlight to take a lead run on mandolin.

Watch Ronnie McCoury sit-in with Little Feat on “Willin’” during Thursday’s concert in Kentucky below: