Fool for the City

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Fool for the City
Studio album by Foghat
Released	September 15, 1975
Recorded	1974
Studio	Suntreader Studios, Sharon, Vermont
Genre	Hard rock blues rock
Length	35:37
Label	Bearsville
Producer	Nick Jameson (008)
Foghat chronology
Rock and Roll Outlaws (1974) Fool for the City (1975) Night Shift (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Fool for the City is the fifth studio album by English rock band Foghat, released on September 15, 1975. This was their first platinum album and features, along with the title track, their signature song "Slow Ride". This was also the first album the band recorded after the departure of founding member, Tony Stevens, and featured producer Nick Jameson on bass and keyboards, who also co-wrote the album's closing track, "Take It or Leave It", with Dave Peverett. Although featured in the photograph on the back cover of the album, Jameson is not known to have toured with Foghat in support of the album. Bassist Craig MacGregor was recruited shortly after the album's release, although Jameson would continue to produce and record intermittently with the band over the next couple decades.

Album cover[]

The album cover shows drummer Roger Earl sitting alone on a soap box fishing down a manhole near 229 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:^[3]

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.

This particular LP was released with two different catalog numbers, The original released in 1975 was released as BR 6959. A reissue in 1978 was issued as BRK 6980. All issues from 1978 -1984 used this catalog number.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing[]

Side one[]

1. "Fool for the City" (Dave Peverett) – 4:33
2. "My Babe" (Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley) - 4:35
3. "Slow Ride" (Peverett) – 8:14

Side two[]

1. "Terraplane Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 5:42
2. "Save Your Loving (For Me)" (Rod Price, Peverett) – 3:31
3. "Drive Me Home" (Peverett) – 3:54
4. "Take It or Leave It" (Nick Jameson, Peverett) – 4:54^[1]

Personnel[]

• Lonesome Dave Peverett — lead vocals, guitar
• Rod "The Bottle" Price — electric and acoustic guitars, slide guitar, steel guitar, vocals
• Roger Earl — drums, percussion
• Nick Jameson — bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, vocals, producer, engineer
• Tony Loew — photography
• Tony Outeda — co-ordinator^[4]

Charts[]

Singles — Billboard (United States)

References[]

External links[]

• Info at Foghat.com
• 231 E 11th St at Google Maps

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