After some time spent mourning, the band soldiered on with a new lineup (adding Charlie Huhn on vocals), and after two years of touring released Family Joules in 2002. The original band broke apart for good with Peverett's passing due to cancer on February 7, 2000. After healing their rift, the original Foghat (Peverett, Price, Stevens, and Earl) re-formed in 1993 and toured for years, releasing Return of the Boogie Men in 1994 and Road Cases in 1998. Perhaps growing tired of early retirement, Lonesome Dave formed his own version of Foghat in 1990 and hit the road. The band toured throughout the decade and into the early '90s.
The remaining members of the band (Roger Earl, Erik Cartwright, and Craig MacGregor) continued playing together as the Kneetremblers, and after some lineup changes decided to revert to the Foghat name.
The group broke up shortly afterward with Peverett retiring from the road.
In the early '80s, Foghat's commercial fortunes declined rapidly, with their last album, 1983's Zig-Zag Walk, barely making the album charts.
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After 1975, the band went through a series of bass players Price left the band in 1981 and was replaced by Erik Cartwright. Foghat Live was their biggest album, selling over two million copies. "Slow Ride," taken from Fool for the City, was their biggest single, peaking at number 20. Their next six albums - Energized (1974), Rock and Roll Outlaws (1974), Fool for the City (1975), Night Shift (1976), Foghat Live (1977), Stone Blue (1978) - were all best-sellers and all went at least gold. Foghat's second album was their first gold record, and it established them as a popular arena rock act. Like the first record, the second was called Foghat it was distinguished by a picture of a rock and a roll on the front cover. Their first album, Foghat, was released in the summer of 1972 and it became an album rock hit a cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" even made it to the lower regions of the singles charts.įor their next album, Foghat didn't change their formula at all - in fact, they didn't even change the title of the album. Foghat moved to the United States, signing a record contract with Bearsville Records, a new label run by Albert Grossman. Upon their departure, they formed Foghat with guitarist Rod Price. Guitarist/vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl were members of the British blues band Savoy Brown, who all left the group in the early '70s.
With their straight-ahead, three-chord romps, Foghat's sound was American in origin, yet the members were all natives of England. Once punk and disco came along, the band's audience dipped dramatically. While never deviating from their basic boogie, they retained a large audience until 1978, selling out concerts across America and earning several gold or platinum albums. Foghat specialized in a simple, hard-rocking blues-rock, releasing a series of best-selling albums in the mid-'70s.
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