Fool for the City

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 albums's release.

Fool for the City
Studio album by
Foghat
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1975
Recorded1974
StudioSuntreader Studios, Sharon, Vermont
Genre
Length35:37
LabelBearsville
ProducerNick Jameson (008)
Foghat chronology
Rock & Roll Outlaws
(1974)		 Fool for the City
(1975)		 Night Shift
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Rolling Stone

Album cover

The album cover shows drummer Roger Earl sitting alone on a soap box fishing down a manhole in the middle of 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:[1]

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.

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

Personnel

Charts

Singles — Billboard (United States)

Year Single Chart Position
1975 "Slow Ride" Pop Singles 20
1976 "Fool for the City" Pop Singles 45

References
  1. MacDermott, Chris (8 January 2014). "Interview with Roger Earl from Foghat: Still A Fool For The City". The Aquarian Weekly. Arts Weekly, Inc. Retrieved 18 September 2015.



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