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Return of the Boogie Men

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This is Foghat at their very best. This may be their best album ever. Foghat was always a blues-based band, and their albums up through "Stone Blue" really reflect that. After "Stone Blue" they seemed to really lose focus. They starting dabbling in other sounds, rockabilly and some other stuff that I found very disappointing. Eventually, they just kind of disappeared from the scene for several decades.

This album is their comeback album - after somewhere around 25 years of being missing in action, Foghat is back and as good or better than ever. This is a great blues/rock album. Check out "Jump That Train", "Motel Shaker", "Nothin' But Trouble", and "Talk To Me Baby". There's some acoustic stuff on this album too, and it's good, but I like the electric stuff the best. If you like Foghat, you'll love this album!

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Play Dirty and Nothin' But Trouble alone make this CD worth the investment. Crank 'em loud! Also has a great rendition of I Just Want To Make Love To You that is unexpected. An overall super effort after several lackluster attempts.

This is Foghat at their very best. This may be their best album ever. Foghat was always a blues-based band, and their albums up through "Stone Blue" really reflect that. After "Stone Blue" they seemed to really lose focus. They starting dabbling in other sounds, rockabilly and some other stuff that I found very disappointing. Eventually, they just kind of disappeared from the scene for several decades.

This album is their comeback album - after somewhere around 25 years of being missing in action, Foghat is back and better than ever. This is a great blues/rock album. Check out "Jump That Train", "Nothin' But Trouble", and "Talk To Me Baby".

Listen to the slide guitar on "Jump That Train" - there's a lot of it there, as you would expect from classic Foghat. Listen to the slide bass guitar on "Nothin' But Trouble" - another sign of classic Foghat. Great stuff! If you like Foghat, you'll love this album.

Foghat covers themselves with arrangements that deliberately expose their long career of homage to the blues. I have every album they have made, and the hard driving rock explodes in joy - they are the tightest band I have ever seen in person. This album is packed with the pure and simple essence of blues music - uncolored, just plain un-colored. This is the real story of Foghat.

Foghat broke up as a recording unit after the "Zig Zag Walk" album in the early 80's. As a touring act various versions of Foghat continued to perform live throughout the next decade. At one point there were two touring versions of the band competing against each other each with just one original member. In 1994 the dream of many Foghat fans came to a reality when the original four members, Lonesome Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Tony Stevens, and Roger Earl decided to bury their differences and get back together. The result was this, the band's first new album of studio material in more than a decade. The album is mostly new, but does contain newly recorded acoustic versions of the Foghat staples "I Just Want To Make Love To You", and "Take Me To The River". Foghat has always been blues based and they really let their blues roots show on tracks like "Louisiana Blues". Other highlights include "Jump That Train", "Talk To Me Baby", "Writing On The Wall", and "Motel Shaker". This really is a very good comeback album and I would say ranks up with their better earlier studio output. It may not be quite as good as "Fool For The City" or "Stone Blue", but this is a solid effort finding the band in fine form. Unfortunately this would be the last studio disc from the original band. Both Dave Peverett and Rod Price have passed away. There is still a version of Foghat out there with Roger Earl, but sadly the original quartet is gone for good.

Foghat provided us with their best of the rest.

This 1994 album was the final studio piece.

Everything else was just gravy.

This was the final album upon which all the original members played. And played well.

"Jump That Train" starts things off with a great boogie beat. "Louisiana Blues" slows the beat a bit but enhances the driving bass. This became a Foghat classic.

"Motel Shaker" slows the beat a bit but reinforces the Foghat beat.

"Play Dirty" slows the beat even more but reinforces Rod Price's slide guitar.

Rod introduces "Nothing But Trouble" with his slide with some awesome Lonesome Dave vocals.

Rod slides into "Talk To Me Baby" with some incredible fretting. Lonesome Dave augments.

The next cut is an acoustic version of Foghat's "I Just Want To Make Love To You."

The eighth cut is an adaptation of the Talking Heads' "Take Me To The River." They did it best but this version rocks nevertheless.

The blues overwrite the next cut, which is an adaptation of "That's Alright Mama."

"Feel So Good" begins with an acoustic guitar ramp up to electric backup.

"I Want You To Love Me" starts with a remarkable electric riff series by Rod Price, based upon the blues.

I have two favorite songs on this album; the first is "Jump That Train."

The second is "Writing On The Wall."

You must purchase this album.

Not because I say so, but because Foghat demands it.

BZ

Surprisingly solid album, the last Foghat album with Lonesome Dave Peverett before he passed away in 2000. Features the origonal members with mostly new songs but an added bonus of acoustic versions of four songs including "Just Wanna Make Love To You" off their first album and "Take Me to the River" from the album Night Shift. A fitting swansong for a great boogie band.

This is a great return to their roots type of album.Saw them live on this tour(25th anniversary)for fifteen bucks.Rod Price bounced picks off my chest all nite.I don't think he ever got the credit he deserved as one of the all time greatest slide guitar players.Shook hands with all the guys as they came off the stage.Also saw them on their last tour with lonesome Dave.You could tell he was very sick,people had tears running down their face the whole show(myself included)but he sang and played his a** off.This is a great album,lonesome Dave went out on top.And oh by the way,take me to the river is not a talking heads song,it's an old blues song that Foghat covered earlier.

The live concert material released on CD and DVD by Foghat in the last 8 years is some of the best boogie/blues rock material ever recorded by them or any other band. This is a mediocre studio release by a great band that has to be seen and heard live to really be appreciated. Go and listen to some of the samples of the newer live stuff on Amazon and I think you'll skip over this. I am 52 year old blues/rock guitarist and if anyone can thibk of a better, more energetic boogie band in the last 25 years, please let me know. DVD is really the way to go. Lonesome Dave was just a natural, good natured, and very talented front man with rocknroll rhythm in his bones and it blesses my heart to see him onstage on the DVDs. I have seen everybody from Hendrix to ZZ Top live, and I've never seen a live band anymore enjoyable than these guys. They really improved with age. I'm really glad they released the two recent DVDs so I could really see close up how good Lonesome Dave was onstage. These guys really tapped into the basic feel-good, make you- want- to- dance-and- boogie spirit that Chuck Berry started a long time ago, and that's a gift that can't be learned. It's either there or it's not.