Lowell George

Lowell George is one of those musicians where the more you dig in, the more you can't believe he's not a household name — and then you remember he died at 34 and it all makes a devastating kind of sense. Growing up in Hollywood and passing through Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention before founding Little Feat, he built one of the most distinctive sounds in American rock: that warm, greasy slide guitar work, those deceptively casual grooves that are actually incredibly tight. "Willin'" alone is worth a lifetime of attention. Little Feat never quite broke through to arena-rock fame, and I think that actually preserved something special about them — they stayed weird, soulful, and real. The Americana Music Association gave him their President's Award posthumously in 2009, which feels like exactly the kind of belated institutional recognition a guy like Lowell would've gotten a kick out of. Miss what could've been.

Name (English)

Lowell George

Name (Japanese)

ローウェル・ジョージ

Reading

ろーうぇる・じょーじ

Born

April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

Origin

Hollywood, California, United States

Occupation

musician / singer / composer / guitarist / songwriter

High school

Hollywood High School

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Americana Music Association President's Award

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8

Tags

• California
• musician
• singer
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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