Foghat Days on The Road

Recorded mostly in 1976, with bonus tracks taken from a 1974 concert, King Biscuit Flower Hour: In Concert is quite possibly the best live Foghat album on the market - it boasts better sound quality and lengthier jams than the somewhat abbreviated Foghat Live album from 1977, and it features the band during the prime years of their career, unlike the latter-day Road Cases. There's also a studio re-recording of "Leavin' Again" and a band interview padding out the disc, but the main emphasis is on the band's concert fireworks, and they deliver exactly what their fans want.

Great "Best of" cd plus the First album as a bonus, first off "Fool For The City", "Home in my Hand" and "Slow Ride" are live tracks taken from the "Live" album, the other 12 songs on the "Best of" cd are studio tracks, the other cd is the 9 track debut album, comes with a nice 10 page booklet of photo's and a well written history of the band written in 1998 by Derek Oliver…

Boasting eight gold records, one platinum record (1975's 'Fool For The City'), and one double-platinum record (1977's 'Foghat Live'), Foghat cemented their place as one of the world’s biggest hard rock bands of the 70s with iconic hits such as ‘Slow Ride’, ‘Fool for the City’ and ‘I Just Wanna Make Love to You’.‘The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection’ contains all 13 of Foghat’s albums released on Bearsville Records, newly remastered and sounding better than ever.

Like so many other bands who formed in the early '70s, Foghat's sound was based upon the wails and moans of the blues guitar. Foghat took this basic structure and added a rowdy four-bar boogie feel to it, cranked the amps to 11, and unleashed a series of LPs that would achieve gold or platinum status. Best of Foghat captures the band's finer moments. "Slow Ride" with its funky-boogie bass line and guitar harmony leads was every air-guitarist's dream come true, and the long breakdown at the song's mid-point that finally erupted into scorching fret work epitomized the "big rock ending" of the 1970s. "Fool for the City" was another rush of rock and roll adrenaline, with its repeated chorus and steady straight four/four beat. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" also demonstrated singer Dave Peverett's bluesy growl, an influence that often seemed more prevalent in the band's guitar work.

After establishing a new level of credibility on record with 1974's Energized, Foghat cranked out another album of boogie rock before the year ended. The result, Rock and Roll Outlaws, is not as consistently inspired as its predecessor but remains a worthwhile listen for the group's fans…