Fool For The City

The cover of Foghat‘s fifth album “Fool For The City” was shot in the middle of an intersection in New York City. Photographer Tony Loew placed Foghat drummer Roger Earl on a soap box fishing down a manhole in the middle of East 11th Street. 

The album was released by Bearsville Records on September 15, 1975 and was their first platinum album. Fool For The City features their signature song “Slow Ride“.

Tracks:

Side One:
Fool for the City
My Babe
Slow Ride

Side Two:
Terraplane Blues
Save Your Loving (For Me
Drive Me Home
Take It or Leave It

Personnel:

Lonesome Dave Peverett — lead vocals, guitar
Rod “The Bottle” Price — guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar, vocals
Roger Earl — drums, percussion
Nick Jameson — bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, vocals

Foghat Discography

1972 – Foghat
1973 – Foghat
1974 – Energized
1974 – Rock and Roll Outlaws
1975 – Fool for the City
1976 – Night Shift
1977 – Foghat Live
1978 – Stone Blue
1979 – Boogie Mote
1980 – Tight Shoes
1981 – Girls to Chat & Boys to Bounce
1982 – In the Mood for Something Rude
1983 – Zig-Zag Walk
1994 – Return of the Boogie Men
1998 – Road Cases
2003 – Family Joules
2003 – Decades Liv
2007 – Foghat Live II
2010 – Last Train Home
2016 – Under the Influence
2017 – Live at the Belly Up
2018 – Slow Ride

Intersection
296 East 11th Street
New York NY 10003