At the end of last year Rock Candy Records released their Remastered & Reloaded version of Britain’s FOGHAT classic “Fool For The City“, their first platinum album and features, along with the title track, their signature song “Slow Ride”.
Foghat clocked up a considerable number of tour miles after relocating to the USA in 1970, road testing their material, looking to kickstart their career. It worked a treat. . . it’s on the road that you establish the body of each song, adapt and refine, then add the details.
Subsequently, all but one of the band’s eight Seventies albums went gold.
The band’s rocking boogie has its roots in the American south. It’s basically delta blues with its serial number filed off, then t