We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
From the opening notes of the first song, a cover of Willie Dixon’s “I Just Want To Make Love To You”, you know what youre getting from the self-titled debut LP of the band Foghat. Straight ahead “meat and potatoes blues-rock. Tightly played…simple and direct…and good.
That’s not to say that it’s boring. Despite avoiding the flash and bombast of band like the Stones or Led Zep, Foghat delivers guitar-based rock in a way that you can enjoy if you are so inclined.
After leaving Savoy Brown in 1971, Tony Stevens (bass), Roger Earl (drums) and Lonesome Dave Peverett (guitar & vocals) joined up with guitarist Rod Price to form Foghat.
They left England for the US and signed with Bearsville Records. This debut album was produced by Dave Edmunds who adds another guitar to some cuts. Bearsville artist Todd Rundgren plays on the record as does Roger Earl’s brother Colin who deliver some fine piano work on the band’s cover of Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline”. Colin Earl came from the band Mungo Jerry who had a huge hit a few years earlier with “In The Summertime”.
Other tracks that caught my ear were “Fools Hall Of Fame” and “Highway (Killing Me)”.
They, of course, would hit arena status later with the “Fool For The City” album and the crunching track “Slow Ride”…but you can hear where that came from in the early work presented here.
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