Lonesome Dave Peverett & Rod Price
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Lonesome Dave Peverett & Rod Price |
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Legendary guitarist Rod Price, founding member of the blues
boogie band Foghat passed away on March 22,2005
at the age of 57 in Wilton, New Hanpshire. Price sustained a head trauma in
an accidental stairway fall precipitated by
a massive heart attack.
Lonesome Dave Peverett (Lead Vocals and Guitars) died on Feb. 7, 2000 from complications arising from cancer.
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1. "Fool For The City"
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 Lonesome Dave Peverett |
Another one of those nostalgia trips for me. Always loved this album. It received tons of spin time on my turntable when I was in junior high school. When I sold all my vinyl back in 1989 this album went with it. I always liked the cool die-cut cover and the way the band shown through the letters. It was quite cool. However, upon selling my vinyl copy it was over a decade before I finally purchased the CD version. After securing a copy of "Boogie Motel" in '04, this CD immediately moved up on my priority list. "Live" is a classic and remains a great listen almost three decades later. It is one of the great live albums for all time. The music here is bombastic, super-charged, spirited and pushes these tracks into far heavier realms than their studio albums ever got. The drawn out version of "Slow Ride" is an absolute must, as is the energized version of "Honey Hush" and the extended version of "I Just Want To Make Love To You". ("Honey Hush" is a reved-up adaptation of "Train Kept A Rollin'.) The album's version of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" was released as a single and reached #33 in the U.S. "Foghat Live" went on to earn double platinum status and pushed Foghat to superstardom, at least for a while.
Foghat - Stone Blue / Boogie
Motel (Castle/Bearsville)
1978/1979
Stone Blue (DISC
ONE)
1. "Stone Blue" (5:38)
2. "Sweet Home Chicago" (3:59)
3. "Easy Money" (3:55)
4. "Midnight Madness" (6:53)
5. "It Hurts Me Too" (5:32)
6. "High On Love" (5:18)
7. "Chevrolet" (3:21)
8. "Stay With Me" (4:23)
Boogie Motel (DISC
TWO)
1. "Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed" (3:50)
2. "Third Time Lucky" (4:12)
3. "Comin' Down With Love" (5:23)
4. "Paradise Alley" (5:37)
5. "Boogie Motel" (7:20)
6. "Love In Motion" (4:30)
7. "Nervous Release" (5:53)
When these two albums were released, Foghat were at the top of their game. They had a few successful hits under their belt and had just released a very successful live album, cleverly titled "Live". It was about this time that I discovered that band. I was in mid-high school when I became a Foghat fan. It was "Live" that won me over. However, soon after I bought both of these albums and they dominated my turnatable. The band's mixture of hard rock, blues, groove-based rhythms and 'Lonesome' Dave Pevertt's soulful vocals were infectious to me at the time.
"Stone Blue" is Foghat at their prime, although I always felt that they were tryin to recapture the success of "Slow Ride" on this album. "Stone Blue" paired Foghat with producer Eddie Kramer, who had previously engineered legendary recordings for Jimi Hendrix, Kiss and Led Zeppelin. (The liner notes on this album spell his name Eddie Cramer.) According to the liner notes the band didn't jive well with Kramer. The band admits that the tension in the studio helped to give the album an added edge. The title track indeed became a Top 40 hit for the band. "Stone Blue" also contains a mean cover of Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago".
"Boogie Motel" in particular has a lot of nostalgic value to me. Even though this album is quite short, there really isn't a song on it that I don't like. From the humourous "Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed", to the infectious, 7-minute long title track, to the bluesy, country-rock of "Paradise Alley", to the hard rockin' jam "Nervous Release", this one rocked my world in 1979. Now almost three decades later, I still enjoy this disc. Even the comical front and back covers hold some nostalgic value for me. I can remember staring at that cover at all the action going on in the cartoonish cover. "Boogie Motel" was the end of an era for Foghat and unfortunately about the time I got so inthralled by heavy metal that I lost track of the band. This 2-CD European reissue contains a decent three panel biography, as well as all the original liner notes and cover art for both albums. "Stone Blue" and "Boogie Motel" both sold gold.
On Vinyl:
Foghat - Fool for the City
Foghat - Night Shift
Foghat - Live
Foghat - Boogie Motel
