Foghat ? Fool for the City ? Rare 1975 Bearsville Records Original LP NEAR MINT
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Fool for the City Studio album by Foghat Released September 15, 1975 Recorded 1974 at Suntreader Studios, Sharon, Vermont Genre Hard rock, blues rock Length 35:37 Label Bearsville (Original release)
Rhino (2005 CD reissue)
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (2007 LP reissue and 2008 SACD reissue) Producer Nick Jameson (008) Foghat chronology Rock & Roll Outlaws
(1974) Fool for the City
(1975) Night Shift
(1976) Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic Rolling Stone
Fool for the City is the fifth album released by English rock band Foghat, released in 1975. This was their first platinum album and features, along with the title track, their signature song "Slow Ride".
After building a solid core audience through relentless touring and a string of hard-rocking albums, Foghat finally hit the big time in 1975 with Fool for the City. It still stands out as the best album in the group's catalog because it matched their road-tested abilities as hard rockers to a consistent set of tunes that were both well-crafted and ambitious. The tone for the album is set by its title track: This hard-rocking gem not only pairs riff-driven verses with an effective shout-along chorus, but also throws in a few surprising moments where the guitars are taken out of the mix completely and Nick Jameson's bass is allowed to take the lead in a funky breakdown. Fool for the City also produced an enduring rock radio favorite in "Slow Ride," a stomping rock tune that transcends the inherent clichés of its "love is like a car ride" lyrics with a furious performance from the band and a clever arrangement that works in well-timed automotive sound effects during the verses and plays up the band's ability to work an R&B-styled groove into their hard-rocking sound (again, note the thumping bassline from Jameson). Further radio play was earned with "Take It or Leave It," an acoustic-based ballad that worked synthesizers into its subtle yet carefully layered arrangement to become one of the group's finest slow numbers. The album's other songs don't stand like the aforementioned selections, but they all flow together nicely thanks to a consistently inspired performance from the band and clever little arrangement frills that keep the group's boogie-oriented rock fresh (example: the witty spoken word bit at the end of "Drive Me Home"). All in all, Fool for the City is both Foghat's finest achievement in the studio and one of the high points of 1970s hard rock. -AllMusic Review by Donald A. Guarisco
Album cover
The album cover shows drummer Roger Earl sitting alone on a soap box fishing down a manhole in the middle of East 11th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue) in New York City, near the address of Foghat's American office. The back cover features skeptical bystanders observing Earl's unusual activity and the other members of the band either asking him what he is doing or trying to dissuade him from it. In a 2014 interview, Earl explained how the picture was taken:
“ It was a Sunday morning and I hadn't slept. [...] It was Nick Jameson's idea [...] since I have this penchant for fishing. Anyway, we lift up the manhole cover and I'm sitting on a box. Almost immediately a couple of New York's Finest come by in their patrol car. They're looking at us and they wind the window down. We're like, "Oh shit." They yell out, "Hey! You got a fishing license?" and then start laughing. So they come over and say, "What the fuck are you doing?" They took some pictures with them handcuffing me. I love New York's finest. ”Track listing
Side one
- "Fool for the City" (Dave Peverett) – 4:33
- "My Babe" (Bobby Hatfield, Willie Dixon, Bill Medley) - 4:35
- "Slow Ride" (Peverett) – 8:11
Side two
- "Terraplane Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 5:42
- "Save Your Loving (For Me)" (Rod Price/Peverett) – 3:31
- "Drive Me Home" (Peverett) – 3:54
- "Take It or Leave It" (Nick Jameson/Peverett) – 4:54
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