Dixie Chicken

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{{Infobox album

| name = Dixie Chicken

| type = Studio

| artist = Little Feat

| cover = Little_Feat_-_Dixie_Chicken.jpg

| alt =

| released = January 25, 1973

| recorded = Late 1972

| studio = Clover Recorders, Los Angeles
Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles

| genre =

• Swamp rock{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|title=All-Time Top 1000 Albums|url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/page/179/mode/1up|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/mode/1up|date=1999|archive-date= October 8, 2021|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=0-7535-0354-9|page=152}}
• funk rock{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|title=All-Time Top 1000 Albums|url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/page/179/mode/1up|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/alltimetop1000al0000lark_d7o0/mode/1up|date=1999|archive-date= October 8, 2021|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=0-7535-0354-9|page=152}}
• New Orleans R&B

| length = 36:12

| label = Warner Bros. Records

| producer = Lowell George

| prev_title = Sailin' Shoes

| prev_year = 1972

| next_title = Feats Don't Fail Me Now

| next_year = 1974

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Dixie Chicken

| type = studio

| single1 = Dixie Chicken

| single1date = 1973

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r11760/review}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|accessdate=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=May 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525112140/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|url-status=live}}

}}

Dixie Chicken is the third studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1973, on Warner Bros. Records. The artwork for the front cover was by illustrator Neon Park{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm|title=Neon Park|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-date=2022-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511203224/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm|url-status=live}} and is a reference to a line from the album's third song, "Roll Um Easy".

The album is considered their landmark album with the title track as their signature song that helped further define the Little Feat sound. The band added two members (guitarist Paul Barrere and percussionist Sam Clayton) to make the more complete and familiar line-up that continued until their 1979 breakup following the death of Lowell George. Bassist Kenny Gradney was brought in to replace original bassist Roy Estrada, who had left after the band's second album, Sailin' Shoes, to join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. This new line-up radically altered the band's sound, leaning toward New Orleans R&B/funk.

It was voted number 563 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).{{cite book|title=All Time Top 1000 Albums|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=191}}

The title track was released as a single by Warner Bros. in March 1973 in the U.S., backed with "Lafayette Railroad" (WB 7689){{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/wb7689us|title=Little Feat - Dixie Chicken|via=www.45cat.com}} and in February 1975 in the UK, backed with "Oh Atlanta" (K 16524).{{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/k16524|title=Little Feat – Dixie Chicken|via=www.45cat.com|access-date=2022-05-18|archive-date=2022-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518223601/http://www.45cat.com/record/k16524|url-status=live}}