Little Feat: The Last Farewell Tour featuring Maggie Rose

The Read

Lowell George has been gone since 1979, and the band that carried on has spent decades proving the songs were bigger than any one member. The core appeal never changed: New Orleans syncopation grafted onto California rock, slide guitar, and grooves that sit slightly off the obvious beat in a way that makes people who cannot dance start trying. Nothing else quite sounds like it. Farewell tours invite skepticism, and they should. The counterargument is that this material has always been played rather than performed — long intros, real interplay, arrangements that leave room. Maggie Rose opens, which is a good use of the slot. The Ryman crowd will be older and will know exactly when the groove flips.

The Room

Ryman Auditorium

116 5th Ave N

Built in 1892 as a tabernacle by river captain Thomas Ryman, who was converted at a Sam Jones revival — little did he know it would become the church of American roots music.