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FOGHAT -- "SLOW RIDE"

bulletWriter: Dave Peverett
bulletProducer: Nick Jameson
bulletRecorded: Late summer/early fall 1974 at Suntreader Studio in Sharon, Vermont
bulletReleased: Spring 1975
bulletPlayers:
"Lonesome" Dave Peverett -- vocals, guitar
Rod Price -- guitar, vocals
Nick Jameson -- bass, vocals
Roger Earl -- drums
bulletAlbum: Fool For The City (Bearsville, 1975)
bulletAlso On:
Foghat Live (Bearsville, 1977)
The Best Of Foghat (Rhino, 1989)
Road Cases (Plum, 1998)
The Essentials (Rhino, 2002)
Decades Live (Sanctuary, 2003)

bulletFoghat 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.
bulletThe group built its reputation with nearly non-stop touring.
bulletStevens 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.
bulletPeverett 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."
bulletPeverett said it was finished quickly: "The whole song was written and arranged in one day, which doesn't happen hardly at all."
bulletAs 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?"
bulletAccording 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."
bulletThe band made the right choice -- "Slow Ride" hit Number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Foghat's best showing ever.
bulletThe Fool For The City album was Foghat's breakthrough record, hitting Number 23 on the Billboard 200 chart.

 

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