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Foghat - Extended Versions Audio CD

A fair review of the Foghat "Extended Versions" 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: Extended Versions
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-04-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Louisiana Blues 2: Drivin' Wheel 3: Nothin' But Trouble 4: Stone Blue 5: Rock Your House 6: It Hurts Me Too 7: Sweet Home Chicago 8: I Just Want to Make Love to You 9: Fool for the City 10: Slow Ride

FOGHAT
I SUPPOSE MY SISTER-IN-LAW IS LISTENING TO HER COPY AND LIKING IT. PERSONALLY I DO NOT KNOW WHAT A FOGHAT IS, BUT MY HUSBAND AND SISTER-IN-LAW LOVE THE GROUP SO I ORDERED A COPY FOR BOTH OF THEM. AND MY HUSBAND IS GOING TO OPEN HIS COPY ON CHRISTMAS. I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE BAND MYSELF, BUT HUBBY SAYS THEY'RE GREAT. I'M THINKING IT'S A 7OS ROCK.


Great for the price!
You have to be careful as a lot of these discs are disguised previously released material! For the faithful, this is a good clean sounding recording from their live dvd. The whole "extended version" series of cd's is a little dubious. A welcome addition to your collection. For the casual fan, its a great party/picnic cd. The opening song / salute to their Savoy Brown roots (Louisiana Blues) is totally awsome! Nice fat guitar tones throughout! Its a nice historic audio document of the original boogie men! Long live Lonesome Dave & Rod Price! .


Extra Fog!!
Bargain priced (about half the cost of a normal price CD), the listener gets more than an hour of classic Fog at the top of their game. Foghat's superb live album, Extended Versions, is the CD version of their DVD Two Centuries of Boogie, and was recorded just a couple of years before Lonesome Dave's untimely death in 2000. The rock and roll hits, such as "Drivin' Wheel" and "Stone Blue" are very good, but what really makes the album stand out are the outstanding blues covers. Remember, Foghat started by splitting off from that excellent blues-rock outfit Savoy Brown, and Muddy Waters "Louisiana Blues", a live showcase from those days featuring one of the first recorded vocals by Lonesome Dave, opens this set with incredible high energy. Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago" and Muddy's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" prove that the blues can really rock, but it is a slow blues, Elmore James "It Hurts Me Too," that is far and away the best cut on the album. Rod Price plays some of his most gut-wrenching slide ever on this album, and Tony Stephens and Roger (Mr. Loud!) Earle provide excellent support throughout. (As Dave reminds us, all four original members of Foghat contribute to this effort. ) Get this album at once, and prepare to rock your blues away!.


Great Rock/Blues sound

Plus you've got classics such as "Slow ride" and "Stone blue". This is a great CD, "Nothing but trouble" is one of the
greatest Foghat songs I've ever heard and you can't find
this in any other Foghat CD, or at least I haven't heard.


The Encore for Lonesome Dave & the Boys
And speaking of "Price", Rod Price is excellent on these live renditions of classic Foghat. Great live CD at an equally great price. To hear "Louisiana Blues" by these guys is worth the price of the CD alone. Roadcases was released on this tour earlier and is excellent. Yet, to fill out the final days of Lonesome Dave's tenure with Foghat you must get this CD. Yeah, many of the cuts are the same tunes, but they are from different shows and have their own unique qualities. Aside from the opening number you get two more cuts that were not on Roadcases, including "Stone Blue". Not to mention another great version of "It Hurts Me Too!". Bottom line on this is what an encore performance by a great Boogie Blues band.


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