Foghat - Trod Nossel Studios 1976-01-04 WBCN-FM Broadcast (Bootleg)

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Having toured persistently, and with five energetic and unpretentious albums to their credit in three years, the members of Foghat have secured for their modest talents a niche as a middle-level act. 
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Fool for the City, the fifth album, reveals a band keenly aware of both its strengths and limitations. They have the knack for turning a simple riff into a dense, driving number free of the excesses that so often overextend other similarly limited rock groups. Foghat fares especially well with the title song and with the Righteous Brothers' "My Babe." Lonesome Dave Perverett's howling vocals (he sounds like he's singing from the far end of an aluminum drainpipe) and the biting, dual rhythm guitars of Peverett and Rod Price give the band a cutting edge and an identifiable sound -- all given a boost in the studio by longtime producer/engineer Nick Jameson who recently joined the group on bass and keyboards. Foghat's music is so sturdy, succinct and infectious that one wonders why they haven't attained the prominence of, say, BTO or the Doobie Brothers. This band may well be only a single away -- and "Fool for the City" may well be that single. 

Foghat specialized in a simple, hard-rocking blues-rock, releasing a series of best-selling albums in the mid-'70s. While the group never deviated from their basic boogie, they retained a large audience until 1978, selling out concerts across America and earning several gold or platinum albums. Once punk and disco came along, the band's audience dipped dramatically.

With its straight-ahead, three-chord romps, the band's sound was American in origin, yet the members were all natives of England. Guitarist/vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl were members of the British blues band Savoy Brown, who all left the group in the early '70s. Upon their departure, they formed Foghat with guitarist Rod Price. Foghat moved to the United States, signing a record contract with Bearsville Records, a new label run by Albert Grossman. Their first album, Foghat, was released in the summer of 1972 and it became an album rock hit; a cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" even made it to the lower regions of the singles charts. For their next album, the group didn't change their formula at all -- in fact, they didn't even change the title of the album. 

Like the first record, the second was called Foghat; it was distinguished by a picture of a rock and a roll on the front cover. Foghat's second album was their first gold record, and it established them as a popular arena rock act. Their next six albums -- Energized (1974), Rock and Roll Outlaws (1974), Fool for the City (1975), Night Shift (1976), Foghat Live (1977), Stone Blue (1978) -- all were best-sellers and all went at least gold. "Slow Ride," taken from Fool for the City, was their biggest single, peaking at number 20. Foghat Live was their biggest album, selling over two million copies. After 1975, the band went through a series of bass players; Price left the band in 1981 and was replaced by Erik Cartwright.

In the early '80s, Foghat's commercial fortunes declined rapidly, with their last album, 1983's Zig-Zag Walk, barely making the album charts. The group broke up shortly afterward with Peverett retiring from the road. The remaining members of the band (Roger Earl, Erik Cartwright and Craig MacGregor) continued playing together as the Kneetremblers and after some line-up changes decided to revert to the Foghat name. The band toured throughout the decade and into the early 1990's. Perhaps growing tired of early retirement, Lonesome Dave formed his own version of Foghat in 1990 and hit the road. After healing their rift, the original Foghat (Peverett,Price, Stevens and Earl) reformed in 1993 and toured for years, releasing Return of the Boogie Men in 1994 and Road Cases in 1998. 

The original band broke apart for good with Peverett's passing due to cancer on February 7, 2000. After some time spent mourning, the band soldiered on with a new line-up (adding Charlie Huhn on vocals) and after two years of touring released Family Joules in 2002. Foghat toured for the next few years and regularly issued documents of their live act: The Official Bootleg DVD, Volume 1 in 2004 and Foghat Live II in 2007. 

Foghat 
'Rock Around the World' Radio Show 
Broadcasted 1-4-76
Recorded at 'Trod Nossel Studios Wallingford,11-17/18-76
WBCN-FM Broadcast

01. Rod Price and Roger Earl Short Promo for RATW Foghat Show
02. RATW DJ Intro
03. Fool for the City
04. Wild Cherry
05. Honey Hush
06. Slow Ride
07. RATW DJ Closing Remarks

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