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| Behind The Music | |||
FOGHAT -- "SLOW RIDE"
 | Writer: Dave Peverett
| Producer: Nick Jameson
| Recorded: Late summer/early fall 1974 at Suntreader Studio in
Sharon, Vermont
| Released: Spring 1975
| Players: | "Lonesome" Dave Peverett -- vocals, guitar Rod Price -- guitar, vocals Nick Jameson -- bass, vocals Roger Earl -- drums Album: Fool For The City (Bearsville, 1975)
| Also On: | Foghat Live (Bearsville, 1977) The Best Of Foghat (Rhino, 1989) Road Cases (Plum, 1998) The Essentials (Rhino, 2002) Decades Live (Sanctuary, 2003) Foghat was formed in 1971 by Savoy Brown
singer-guitarist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett,
bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl, who were
joined by slide guitarist Rod Price.
| The group built its reputation with nearly non-stop touring.
| Stevens left the band prior to the recording of Fool For The City
and was replaced by Nick Jameson, who had produced the
group's previous album, Rock And Roll Outlaws. A guitarist by
trade, Jameson learned to play bass during a week of woodshedding at
Peverett's house.
| Peverett said "Slow Ride" was inspired by American soul
music -- "I was originally writing a song with kind of an Al
Green kind of groove to it, messing around... We got the riff
going and I started singing, and the words pretty much wrote
themselves. And that evening we were rehearsing, I went down there,
played everybody the song. I think Nick wanted to do it like a
jug-band kind of thing, and I said, 'No, I think this could be like
a rocker,' even though its original inspiration was Al Green. It was
gonna be a Foghat type of song."
| Peverett said it was finished quickly: "The whole song was
written and arranged in one day, which doesn't happen hardly at
all."
| As for the lyrics, Peverett said he's confident most listeners will
understand what he's singing about. "It's open to
interpretation, I think, that one. It doesn't take too much to
interpret it in the correct way, does it?"
| According to Peverett, Foghat's label was initially reluctant to
release "Slow Ride" as a single, but the group insisted.
"Usually we leave it up to the record company to decide what
singles they want to put out. We do an album, and there's nothing on
there we're ashamed of. We say, 'You go ahead and put out whatever
you feel like as a single.' With 'Slow Ride,' we were pretty adamant
about the fact it should be a single."
| The band made the right choice -- "Slow Ride" hit Number
20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Foghat's best showing
ever.
| The Fool For The City album was Foghat's breakthrough record,
hitting Number 23 on the Billboard 200 chart. | |
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