Rock And Roll Outlaws
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Album Summary
Rock And Roll Outlaws was Foghat's third studio album, laid down with that raw, locomotive energy the band had been building since they first roared out of London and onto American soil. Released in 1974 on Bearsville Records, the album was produced by Dave Edmunds, a man who understood the bone-deep connection between blues roots and rock and roll thunder. Foghat — Lonesome Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Tony Stevens, and Roger Earl — were firing on all cylinders by this point, and Bearsville gave them the room to let that boogie breathe. The record arrived at a moment when American rock radio was hungry for exactly what Foghat was serving, and the band delivered without apology.
Reception
- The album achieved gold certification in the United States, a testament to how deeply Foghat had connected with the hard-driving rock audience of the mid-1970s.
- It cracked the top 40 on the Billboard 200, solidifying Foghat's reputation as one of the most reliably powerful acts on the American rock chart during that era.
Significance
- Rock And Roll Outlaws stands as a defining document of boogie rock and blues-rock fusion, capturing the sound that ruled the airwaves and the highway in the early-to-mid 1970s with an almost primal authority.
- The album deepened Foghat's bond with the biker rock and arena rock subcultures of the era, with tracks like 'Rock & Roll Outlaw' and 'Eight Days On The Road' becoming anthems for a generation that lived life at full throttle.
- With Dave Edmunds behind the boards, the record bridges the raw British blues tradition and the American hard rock explosion, making it a crucial artifact in understanding how that transatlantic exchange shaped the decade's rock landscape.
Tracklist
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A1 Eight Days On The Road 139
6:05
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A2 Hate To See You Go 88
4:36
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A3 Dreamer 104
6:34
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A4 Trouble In My Way 88
3:27
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B1 Rock & Roll Outlaw —
3:48
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B2 Shirley Jean 144
3:43
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B3 Blue Spruce Woman 129
4:03
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B4 Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie 165
6:12
Artist Details
Foghat, baby, is one of those hard-driving, blues-soaked rock and roll machines that crawled out of London, England in 1971, born from the ashes of Savoy Brown and built on a foundation of sweaty, electric boogie that could shake the walls of any arena in America. These cats — led by the late, great Lonesome Dave Peverett — took that raw British blues sound and turbo-charged it into something that became the very heartbeat of 1970s American rock radio, giving the world that immortal anthem "Slow Ride" in 1975, a track so thick and groovy it practically became the official soundtrack of a generation cruising the highways with the windows down. Foghat may not have always gotten the critical respect they deserved, but their influence on hard rock, Southern rock, and even early heavy metal is undeniable, and their legacy lives on in every band that ever tried to capture that perfect, locomotive blues-rock groove.
