Foghat
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Foghat Biography
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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Tim
Sendra, All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine