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Foghat - The Return of the Boogie Men Audio CD

A fair review of the Foghat "The Return of the Boogie Men" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Foghat reviews here, or go back to the Foghat tabs.

Foghat Band: Foghat
Title: The Return of the Boogie Men
Rating:
Release Date: 1994-10-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Jump That Train 2: Louisiana Blues 3: Motel Shaker 4: Play Dirty 5: Nothin' But Trouble 6: Talk to Me Baby 7: I Just Want to Make Love to You 8: Take Me to the River 9: That's Alright Mama 10: Feel So Good 11: I Want You to Love Me 12: Writing on the Wall

return to there roots
Saw them live on this tour(25th anniversary)for fifteen bucks. This is a great return to their roots type of album. 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.


Foghat - Solid Comeback Effot
As a touring act various versions of Foghat continued to perform live throughout the next decade. Foghat broke up as a recording unit after the "Zig Zag Walk" album in the early 80's. 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.


The Best of the Rest


This 1994 album was the final studio piece. Foghat provided us with their best of the rest.

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.


Foghat Live is the Only Way to go!
This is a mediocre studio release by a great band that has to be seen and heard live to really be appreciated. 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. 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.


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


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