Year : 2023
Style : Classic Rock, Blues Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
Foghat are an English rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for its prominent use of electric slide guitar in its music.The band has achieved 8 gold records, one platinum and one double platinum record, and despite several lineup changes, continues to record and perform to the present day.The band initially featured Dave Peverett ("Lonesome Dave") on guitar and vocals, Tony Stevens on bass, and Roger Earl on drums when they left Savoy Brown in 1970. Rod Price on guitar/slide guitar joined after he left the Black Cat Bones in December 1970. The new line-up was named "Foghat" (a nonsense word from a childhood game played by Peverett and his brother) in January 1971. Their 1972 album, Foghat was produced by Dave Edmunds and had a cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You", which received much airplay, especially on FM stations. Additional tracks on this initial offering include a remake of the Savoy Brown bluesy ode to the road "Leavin' Again (Again!)" and "Sarah Lee", a classic blues burner featuring Rod Price's slide guitar solo. The band's second self-titled album was also known as Rock and Roll for its cover photo of a rock and a bread roll, and it went gold. Energized came out in 1974, followed by Rock and Roll Outlaws and Fool for the City in 1975, the year that Stevens left the band after objecting to their endless touring schedule. Stevens was replaced temporarily by producer Nick Jameson in 1975 when the band recorded Fool for the City. In the next year, Jameson was replaced by Craig MacGregor and the group produced Night Shift in 1976, a live album in 1977, and Stone Blue in 1978, each reaching "gold" record sales. Fool for the City spawned the hit single "Slow Ride" (which reached #20 in the US), but the greatest sales figures were for Live, which sold over 2,000,000 copies. More hits followed: "Drivin' Wheel"; "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (from the live album); "Stone Blue"; and "Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was a Fool)". Rod Price left the band in November 1980, unhappy with the group's still constant touring and the shift away from their hard boogie sound towards a more new-wave-influenced pop direction. After months of auditions he was replaced by Erik Cartwright by February 1981.On 9 July 2013, the band released a single 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.November 10, 2015 Foghat announced they would start making a new studio album and the album will be completely fan-funded through a PledgeMusic Campaign. The album will be titled Under The Influence and has a tentative release date for June 24, 2016. "We have several new songs, a couple of Savoy Brown songs, and a couple of ‘covers’ and we are very excited about this record!"
Album:
Foghat's sound has progressed a great ways since the days of "Slow Ride," as you'd expect from a band that has been around since the '70s. The band now gravitates to a blues sound, not surprising since Foghat came into being when three original members left blues rock outfit Savoy Brown. Founding member and drummer Roger Earl now helms the band accompanied by guitarist Bryan Bassett, singer Scott Holt and bass man Rodney O'Quinn. The songs are a mix of originals and covers and in a very nice tribute, three of the songs were co-written by the band and Kim Simmonds, the late founder of Savoy Brown who had remained a friend to the band over the decades. Sonic Mojo begins with one of the Simmonds numbers, an up-tempo blues rocker with a catchy hook in the chorus called "She's a Little Bit of Everything." The song has a vibe that'll be familiar to fans of early Foghat, Savoy Brown and other blues rock acts of the 1970s. The other Simmonds co-writes include "Drivin' On," a ZZ Top-like number that shows a love of John Lee Hooker and "Time Slips Away," a mid-tempo, almost Southern rock groove that lyrically is a facing of mortality (Simmonds had terminal colon cancer while writing the song) with sweet slide guitar from Bassett heightening the melancholia. Other covers include a rollicking take on Willie Dixon's "Let Me Love You Baby," an interpretation of Chester Burnett's "How Many More Years" that sounds a little like the way Pat Travers or Robin Trower might do the song, and in a surprising choice, Rodney Crowell's "Song for the Life" which works really well here. There's a B.B. King cut too; Holt clearly has a ball singing "She's Dynamite," a cut about a woman with "a pearl-handle pistol and a razor too." Holt shows another side on "Wish I'd Been There," leaving the bluesy vocal roughness aside as he sings about the days when Hank Williams was the hottest thing going. The album ends with one last cover, a take on Chuck Berry's "Promised Land" where the guys replace the original's boogie with a real swinging groove. Sonic Mojo is a satisfying set from this long-running and beloved band.
Line Up:
Scott Holt - lead vocals, lead guitar
Bryan Bassett - lead guitar, slide guitar,backing vocals
Rodney O'Quinn - bass guitar, backing vocals
Roger Earl - drums
Tracklist:
01. She’s a Little Bit of Everything
02. I Don’t Appreciate You
03. Mean Woman Blues
04. Drivin’ On
05. Let Me Love You Baby
06. How Many More Years
07. Song for Life
08. Wish I’d a Been There
09. Time Slips Away
10. Black Days & Blue Nights
11. She’s Dynamite
12. Promised Land
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