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1. I Just Want To Make Love To You
2. Trouble, Trouble
3. Leavin' Again (Again!)
4. Fool s Hall Of Fame
5. Sarah Lee
6. Highway (Killing Me)
7. Maybelline
8. A Hole To Hide In
9. Gotta Get To Know You
10. Ride, Ride, Ride
11. Feel So Bad
12. Long Way To Go
13. It's Too Late
14. What a Shame
15. Helping Hand
16. Road Fever
17. She's Gone
18. Couldn't Make Her Stay

Between 1972 and 1983, Foghat made thirteen albums for the Bearsville label, which Edsel is now proud to release in six top value packages. Foghat was formed when Lonesome Dave Peverett (lead vocals, guitar), Tony Stevens (bass), and Roger Earl (drums) left the British blues band Savoy Brown and added lead/slide guitarist Rod Price in January 1971. Foghat then
went on to enjoy massive success in the US throughout the 70s, with virtually every album going gold (or even platinum), while attracting a fervent but cult audience at home in Europe.

This package contains the first two albums. Foghat (1972) was produced by Dave Edmunds at Rockfield Studios, and starts with a thunderous version of Willie Dixon s I Just Want To Make Love To You . This recording is being used for the opening titles of E4 s new comedy sketch series Cardinal Burns , which starts transmission at the end of March.

Second album Rock And Roll (as depicted on the cover) was released in 1973 and went gold in the US, selling over half a million copies. Ably demonstrating the band s love of American blues, boogie and rock n roll, the album was produced by
Tom Dawes, mainstay of Sixties folk-pop hit makers The Cyrkle.

The package contains all the lyrics (for the first time) and brand new extensive notes by Bearsville Records expert Paul Myers (author of A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio ), who has interviewed Roger Earl specially for these re-issues, Dave Peverett and Rod Price having sadly passed away. Roger Earl still tours with a new line-up of the band.



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1. Fool For The City
2. My Babe
3. Slow Ride
4. Terraplane Blues
5. Save Your Loving (For Me)
6. Drive Me Home
7. Take It Or Leave It
8. Drivin Wheel
9. Don't Run Me Down
10. Burnin The Midnight Oil
11. Night Shift
12. Hot Shot Love
13. Take Me To The River
14. I'll Be Standing By
15. New Place To Call Home (Bonus Track)

Fool For The City (1975) was Foghat s breakthrough album, earning a double platinum certification for over 2 million copies sold. The eight minute epic Slow Ride became the band s signature tune, and a 4 minute edited version reached # 20 in US singles charts. The song even features in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV: San Andreas .

Night Shift (1976) was produced by Dan Hartman (before he became the king of disco-pop), a member of Edgar Winter s White Trash, whose output bore some similarity to Foghat s albums. The album features Drivin Wheel as well as Foghat's take on the Al Green classic, Take Me To The River (later also made famous by Talking Heads), the first of many contemporary soul covers recorded by the band. The bonus track is an album outtake, not issued until 1996.

The package contains all the lyrics (for the first time) and brand new extensive notes by Bearsville Records expert Paul Myers (author of A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio ), who has interviewed Roger Earl specially for these re-issues.

"Next thing you know, you'll be recommending Foghat albums!"

I hope they do Foghat Live at some point.

I wonder how these will compare with the Castle (Essential) 2-fers from 1999 (I think). I believe those are all out of print. I have:

Rock n Roll Outlaws/Fool For The City
Rock n Roll/Energized
Stone Blue/Boogie Motel
Live/Night Shift

Alan

ditto . a great great album

April 30th release date in the UK Live & Stone Blue

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Also available from Foghat on that date:

Boogie Motel & Tight Shoes

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Girls To Chat & Boys to Bounce/In The Mood For Something Rude/Zig Zag Walk + Rarities

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All six releases (13 albums plus bonus tracks) come to $60 with shipping at AmazWAN UK. Nice!

Well, this is a disappointment. After ordering the whole set, I'm now seeing a number of negative reviews popping up. Apparently these aren't newly remastered -- they're just straight two-fer reissues of existing remasters. Worse, at least one of the albums has a significant mastering error: it's reported that the beginning of "Hate To See You Go" on Rock And Roll Outlaws is cut off. If that's the kind of quality control I can expect from these releases, I'm strongly considering leaving them sealed and reselling them. Bummer.

I wonder if these use the remastering that the last reissues on BGO used.[in which case the Foghat Live disc'd probably sound better than the original version I had].

Don't know -- the label's website offers no info on the mastering. It's times like this when I really miss the old Watchdog.

The Foghat Live/Stone Blue reissue was mastered by Peter Rynston at Tall Order Mastering btw.

I listened to the Live/Stone Blue disc today and it's pretty good imho.

The "Girls To Chat & Boys to Bounce/In The Mood For Something Rude/Zig Zag Walk + Rarities" package arrived last week and it sounds fine to me.