Foghat-Fool For The City (1975)

"Fool For The City" was the fifth album by the hugely popular boogie rock and hard blues rock band Foghat, a record that would achieve platinum status thanks to tracks like the well-known "Slow Ride", and reach high positions on the charts worldwide in 1975. Formed in 1971 in London from the ashes of another seminal British blues rock band, Savoy Brown, by guitarist Dave Peverett along with guitarist Rod Price, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl, they quickly gained a tremendous reputation in the United States thanks to their incendiary concerts and their simple yet direct style of hard rock boogie. "Fool For The City" consists of seven essential hard rock, boogie, and blues rock songs that immortalized them thanks to tracks like the aforementioned "Slow Ride", an extensive tour de force of vibrant, fiery rock and roll. But this album is not just about this emblematic song; it also features the dizzying and addictive hard rock that gives the album its title, the rock and roll "My Babe", the powerful blues rock "Terraplane Blues", the rhythmic "Save Your Loving (For Me)" or the melodic with jazzy touches "Take It or Leave it".