80's edition - A Lost Decade?...
This week Hidden Treasures takes a look at Foghat, the great blues band that came out of the ashes of Savoy Brown. We all know about their rise to fame (if you don't then you came to the right place - check this out) and most of us have albums from their 70's output. Maybe you own "Fool For The City", "Rock and Roll Outlaws" or the must-have "Foghat Live". But chances are that you lost track of the band after their chart success faded away. Did they go away or did we just move onto New Wave and the other new sounds ...
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After Dave Peverett left in 1984 and went back to England, the group disbanded briefly. But Earl, along with MacGregor and Cartwright, reformed with a new singer/guitarist Eric (E. J.) Burgeson and continued touring as Foghat into the early 1990s. Lonesome Dave had returned to the US by 1990 and formed his own Lonesome Dave's Foghat. In 1993, at the urging of producer Rick Rubin, the original line-up reunited. Although Rubin ultimately proved to be unavailable to produce their comeback project, the group went ahead anyway and released a studio album entitled Return of the Boogie Men in 1994 and a live album entitled Road Cases in 1998. After being back together six years, the original line-up once again ended after Price decided to retire from touring for good. The 2000s saw the deaths of founding members Dave Peverett and Rod Price. Peverett died on 7 February 2000 from complications from kidney cancer at the age of 56, and Rod Price died on 22 March 2005 at the age of 57 of a fall resulting from a heart attack. Foghat has never stopped touring and recording. They have been together in one form or another, with Roger Earl remaining as drummer. They released a single on 9 July 2013 called "The Word of Rock n' Roll", a Christmas song (an instrumental version of "Winter Wonderland") on 5 November 2013, and released a new DVD (Live in St. Pete) in December 2013.
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Funny thing, I have all these albums. I have the GTC...BTB/Tight Shoes CD and also the GTC...BTB/ITMFSR/ZZW/Rarities disc. When GTC...BTB came out, I had that on vinyl because I really like the song "Live Now, Pay Later" which was played a lot on the radio. Then I bought "Tight Shoes", which was in a cutout bin and, if I remember correctly, it had a bunch of stickers included. Didn't like the album that much then, kinda like it now. I also got ZZW from a cutout bin, and I felt the same about that one as well. THe only one I never picked up on vinyl was ITMFSR, but finally got it on that four-fer pack.
Funnier thing, I have only owned one 70's Foghat album on vinyl or CD, and that's "Fool For The City". Just never felt the urge to own any other 70's Foghat.
Even more funnier thing, I own more 70's Savoy Brown albums (3) than 70's Foghat albums (1).
Nice post.
Between my brother and sister I had access to Foghats 70's output almost in its entirety. I remember most of the albums with the exception of the debut and Stone Blue. My brother played the snot out of Rock and Roll Outlaws. Especially Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie. For some reason he really loved that tune. Still does actually.
Third Time Lucky was on the radio in junior high and my brother also had Boogie Motel. So when Tight Shoes came out it was a no brainer! And then GTCBTB and ITMFSR... Then ZZW never caught my attention until you mentioned, I think in your original GTCBTB post some years back. I like these 4 albums more today than I did back then. Thanks for chiming in!
Never been a "big" Foghat fan. I've always liked Slow Ride, Fool For The City and Third Time Lucky or whatever then name of it is. But I've just never been into boogie rock.
Having said that, that first track is just okay. Nothin' special to me
The second song is pretty good. Vocally it reminds me of Talking Heads.
Next up is another just okay song for me. The guitar was cool.
Closing out the set, That's What Love Can Do is probably the best song here for me. It has a serious new wave feel to it.
So for me, just an okay listening experience. I actually own five Foghat albums. It's the Classic Album Series. For me, probably my most favorite thing about the band is just their name. Foghat is a seriously cool band name.
Norma Jean Fox
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