Exclusive: Hear Little Feat’s New Single “Too High to Cut My Hair”

When Little Feat released Sam’s Place in 2024, it was the band’s first studio album in 12 years. Now, they’ve announced a new record, Strike Up the Band (due out May 9 via Hot Tomato), and have unveiled its lead single, “Too High to Cut My Hair.” The guys sound as good as ever, cutting a funk track with the fire of a wicked blues tempo. It’s not often that legends get to be such pioneering tempests of multi-faceted rock and roll for 50+ years, but Little Feat have outlived lineup changes and decades of exhaustive touring to remain among the finest musical totems of their generation and beyond. “Too High to Cut My Hair” is another notch in an already crowded belt for Bill Payne, Sam Clayton, Kenny Gradney, Fred Tackett, Scott Sharrard and Tony Leon.

Payne says of “Too High to Cut My Hair”: “Fred Tackett shines all over this record, as he always does, but in particular in his writing. ‘Too High to Cut My Hair’ is based on a true story where he and his wife Patricia were in a hotel room in New Orleans. Fred had asked for a trim, but decided that she was too high to cut his hair. And then he thought, ‘Oh my god, what a title!’ People love the humor in our records, a cherished entree to those when they find it. So I’m happy this song displays that humor, and in full. It’s also got the classic Sam Clayton doing his, three octaves below middle C voice in there—Too High To Cut My Hair! Everyone that has heard it has said, ‘That’s a Little Feat song,’ and I know what they mean!”

Listen to “Too High to Cut My Hair” below.