Little Feat named their farewell tour after The Last Record Album, their 1975 release, and the reference carries more weight than the obvious. That record marked a turning point in a band whose entire arc has been a sequence of turns, losses, and regroupings. Their stop at Penn’s Peak on Sunday, February 21, opens the first of 11 dates in the closing North American winter leg of The Last Farewell Tour, a multi-year wind-down that founding keyboardist Bill Payne describes with characteristic grace: “My hope is The Last Farewell Tour resembles a long passionate kiss.”
About the Show
The band began in 1969, when Frank Zappa encouraged Lowell George to leave the Mothers of Invention and form his own group. George pulled in Bill Payne, and what followed was a 56-year run that no radio format ever managed to classify comfortably: California rock, funk, folk, jazz, country, rockabilly, and New Orleans swamp boogie in proportions that shifted by the night. George died in 1979; the band dissolved, then reconvened in 1988 and has toured more or less continuously since. Their live reputation rests, in part, on Waiting for Columbus, a double-live record that remains the primary exhibit in the argument for Little Feat as one of the great American touring bands.
The current six-piece — Payne, Sam Clayton, Fred Tackett, Kenny Gradney, Scott Sharrard, and Tony Leone — carries forward without two of the band’s longer-tenured voices: guitarist Paul Barreré died in 2019, drummer Richie Hayward in 2010. That the group kept going, delivering the recent Strike Up the Band studio record and now this extended final campaign, says something about what the road means to this particular lineup. The winter leg preceding this date included the band’s first Japan concerts since 2012, in Osaka and Tokyo, a detail that signals the wind-down is being pursued with purpose. The band has been careful to note that the farewell is “definitely not an absolute, never-gonna-play again statement”; one-off appearances remain possible after the tour concludes. No support act is listed for the Penn’s Peak date.
Venue & Logistics
Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania is a 1,800-capacity room with reserved seating, part of our Hudson Valley region coverage. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 8:00 p.m. show.
Tickets
Advance tickets are $43.50; day-of-show pricing is $48.50, with regular reserved seating at $52.50. Tickets go on sale to the general public September 25, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Buy tickets.