NEW YORK CITY DRAG is a Fats Waller tribute album in which Lorraine Feather has set lyrics to classic Fats Waller instrumentals.

Personnel includes: Lorraine Feather (vocals); Dick Hyman, Mike Lang (piano).

Recorded at Entourage, Madd Hatter and Visual Rhythm Sound, Los Angeles, California, and Audio Images Recording, Bradenton, Florida. Includes liner notes by Charles Champlin.

Down Beat (1/02, p.50) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Employing Fats Waller's still attractive and meaningful '30s music, the gleaming-voiced, fluid and articulate Feather deftly concocts a variety of mostly contemporary scenarios - many humorous, some disquieting..."

JazzTimes (12/01, p.114) - "...An ambitious salute to Fats Waller that required her to first pen, then perfrom, lyrics molded to a dozen of Waller's classic composiitons..."