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{{Infobox album
| name = Time Loves a Hero
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Little Feat]]
| cover = Little_Feat_-_Time_Loves_a_Hero.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 15, 1977
| recorded = 1976–1977
| venue =
| studio = [[Sunset Sound Studios]], [[Hollywood, CA]]<br>Warner Bros. Studios, [[North Hollywood, CA]]<br>[[United Western Recorders|Western Recorders]], Hollywood, CA<br>[[The Record Plant|Record Plant]], [[Sausalito, CA]]
| genre =
| length = 35:23
| label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| producer = [[Ted Templeman]]
| prev_title = [[The Last Record Album]]
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = [[Waiting for Columbus]]
| next_year = 1978
}}
'''''Time Loves a Hero''''' is the sixth studio album by the American rock band [[Little Feat]], released in 1977.
The album's cover art is by [[Neon Park]].
==Critical reception==
{{music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000193614|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = B<ref name="CG">{{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}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=427}}</ref>
}}
''[[Record World]]'' called the title track "a philosophical, mid-tempo funk tune with some interesting melodic and instrumental hooks."<ref name=rw>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=September 3, 1977|accessdate=2023-02-16|title=Single Picks|page=14|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/77/RW-1977-09-03.pdf}}</ref>
In his review of the album, music critic [[Robert Christgau]] held a somewhat neutral view, writing that "they're not a rock band or even a boogie band anymore—they're a funk band" but that "'Old Folks Boogie' beats anything on the last two albums, 'Time Loves a Hero' tries, and 'Rocket in My Pocket' is a Lowell George readymade like you didn't think he had in him anymore."<ref>{{cite web | title=Robert Christgau: CG: Little feat | url=https://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=little+feat }}</ref>
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Lead Vocals
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Hi Roller
| writer1 = [[Paul Barrere|Paul Barrère]]
| extra1 = [[Lowell George]]
| length1 = 3:35
| title2 = Time Loves a Hero
| writer2 = P. Barrère, [[Kenny Gradney]], [[Bill Payne]]
| extra2 = P. Barrère, Payne
| length2 = 3:47
| title3 = Rocket in My Pocket
| writer3 = George
| extra3 = George
| length3 = 3:25
| title4 = Day at the Dog Races
| writer4 = P. Barrère, [[Sam Clayton]], Gradney, [[Richie Hayward]], Payne
| extra4 = (instrumental)
| length4 = 6:27
}}
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Lead Vocals
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Old Folks Boogie
| writer1 = Gabriel Barrère, P. Barrère
| extra1 = P. Barrère
| length1 = 3:31
| title2 = Red Streamliner
| writer2 = Payne, Fran Tate
| extra2 = Payne
| length2 = 4:44
| title3 = New Delhi Freight Train
| writer3 = [[Terry Allen (artist)|Terry Allen]]
| extra3 = George
| length3 = 3:42
| title4 = Keepin' Up with the Joneses
| writer4 = P. Barrère, George
| extra4 = P. Barrère
| length4 = 3:51
| title5 = Missin' You
| writer5 = P. Barrère
| extra5 = P. Barrère
| length5 = 2:21
}}
==Personnel==
;Little Feat
*[[Paul Barrere|Paul Barrère]] – vocals, guitar
*[[Sam Clayton]] – backing vocals, [[conga]]s, percussion
*[[Lowell George]] – vocals, guitar
*[[Kenny Gradney]] – bass
*[[Richie Hayward]] – backing vocals, drums, percussion
*[[Bill Payne]] – vocals, keyboards, [[synthesizer]], [[marimba]]
'''Additional musicians'''
*[[Greg Adams (musician)|Greg Adams]] – [[trumpet]]
*[[Jeff "Skunk" Baxter]] – [[dobro]] ("Missin' You")¹
*[[Emilio Castillo]] – [[tenor saxophone]]
*[[Mic Gillette]] – [[trombone]], [[trumpet]]
*[[Stephen Kupka|Stephen "Doc" Kupka]] – [[baritone saxophone]]
*[[Michael McDonald (singer)|Michael McDonald]] – vocals ("Red Streamliner")
*[[Lenny Pickett]] – [[alto saxophone]], tenor saxophone
*[[Patrick Simmons]] – guitar ("New Delhi Freight Train"), vocals ("Red Streamliner")
*[[Fred Tackett]] – [[mandocello]] and guitar ("Time Loves a Hero") (joined band 1988)
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart (1977)
!Peak<br/>position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|___location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=178}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|48
|-
|US [[Billboard 200|Top LPs & Tape]] (''Billboard'')
| style="text-align:center;"|34
|}
==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|title=Time Loves a Hero|artist=Little Feat|type=album|relyear=1977|region=United States|award=Gold}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes}}
==Note==
¹ ''Little Feat – Raw Tomatoes Vol.1'' (2002) booklet p14: "the skunk was not on that track"
==References==
<references />
{{Little Feat}}
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[[Category:1977 albums]]
[[Category:Little Feat albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Ted Templeman]]
[[Category:Warner Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums with cover art by Neon Park]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at United Western Recorders]]
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