{"id":6025,"date":"2016-05-20T04:57:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T04:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/foghat-set-to-release-new-album-qunder-the-influenceq\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T04:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T04:57:36","slug":"foghat-set-to-release-new-album-qunder-the-influenceq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/foghat-set-to-release-new-album-qunder-the-influenceq\/","title":{"rendered":"FOGHAT SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM, “UNDER THE INFLUENCE”"},"content":{"rendered":"


Foghat comes full circle with their new album\u00a0\u201cUNDER THE INFLUENCE” [http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/UnderTheInfluence-Teaser],\u00a0releasing Friday, June 24th.\u00a0Drawing from their collective musical influences, the band not only brought in some special guests from their past who helped launch and inspire the Foghat story, but also invited some new friends into the mix to continue the journey of this never idle band. \u00a0
They started recording at their\u00a0Florida\u00a0studio, Boogie Motel South in 2013. In addition to Foghat members Roger Earl, Craig MacGregor, Charlie Huhn and Bryan Bassett,\u00a0 two additional figures helped shape the sessions – Buddy Guy alumni, Scott Holt, who lent a hand in the writing, and added fantastic guitar and vocals to several tracks, and Grammy winning producer\/songwriter, Tom Hambridge. \u00a0<\/p>\n

With their resident genius, guitarist\u00a0Bryan Bassett\u00a0at the helm, the project was going slow since\u00a0Bryan\u00a0was doing triple duty, playing, writing and recording the tracks, while in the midst of a Foghat tour. So Tom Hambridge came aboard.\u00a0According to Roger Earl “I met Tom when presenting 3 awards to Buddy Guy and Tom (his producer) at the Memphis Blues Awards.\u00a0 Tom said that he was a fan, and would love to produce a Foghat record. Putting that in the back of my mind, this was the perfect opportunity. Tom came down to Boogie Motel South to meet the band and we clicked and started writing together immediately. Working with him was inspirational!<\/p>\n

During this time,\u00a0an opportunity arose for some \u2018other\u2019 recording at Dark Horse Institute in\u00a0Nashville\u00a0for a friend’s graduation project. Scott, Bryan and Roger recorded 6 tracks and a new \u2018band\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Earl and the Agitators\u2019,\u00a0with Scott Holt as lead guitar\/vocals was born.\u00a0 They are now playing some dates opening for Foghat with Roger and Bryan doing double-duty.\u00a0 This great experience prompted Foghat to move the recording of \u201cUnder the Influence\u201d to Dark Horse Studios where they brought in two of their major influences.<\/p>\n

Foghat was \u2018spawned\u2019 from the British Blues band \u2018Savoy Brown\u2019 in 1971, so it was fitting to ask\u00a0Savoy\u00a0founder and guitarist\u00a0Kim Simmonds\u00a0to join in.\u00a0\u00a0
As\u00a0Roger Earl\u00a0puts it \u201cKim gave me my shot!\u201d\u00a0 As soon as Kim started playing, everyone was mesmerized!<\/p>\n

Included on this release is a new recording of \u2018Slow Ride\u201d to celebrate the 40th\u00a0anniversary. They invited\u00a0Nick Jameson, (original bass player and producer of \u2018Slow Ride\u2019 on the 1975\u2019 Fool for the City\u2019 album) to play along with Foghat bassist\u00a0Craig MacGregor\u00a0who played bass on Foghat \u2018LIVE\u2019 (1977). They had a blast, and Foghat lead singer,\u00a0Charlie Huhn, was as usual at the top of his game with his incredible vocals and guitar work!<\/p>\n

And to round out the project the amazing\u00a0Dana Fuchs\u00a0added some of her bluesy\/sultry vocals to a couple of tracks!<\/p>\n

Three years in the making, Foghat had fun with this record and the result is an eclectic blend of rock and blues with a little funk and R&B on the side for good measure.\u00a0
It showcases the combined talent of all of the members both in the writing and the playing.\u00a0This band never stops!<\/p>\n

Pre-order links:
Amazon :\u00a0http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/FoghatAmazon-UnderTheInfluence\u00a0
iTunes : \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/FoghatItunes-UnderTheInfluence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Track listing:
Under The Influence\u00a0
Knock It Off\u00a0
Ghost\u00a0
She\u2019s Got A Ring In His Nose\u00a0
Upside Of Lonely\u00a0
Heard It Through The Grapevine\u00a0
Made Up My Mind\u00a0
Hot Mama\u00a0
Heart Gone Cold\u00a0
Honey Do List\u00a0
All Because Of You\u00a0
Slow Ride\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foghat Tour Dates (including Record Release Party at B.B. Kings, NYC \u2013 September 21st, 2016) here:\u00a0www.foghat.net\/tour\/<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Source: www.foghat.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foghat comes full circle with their new album\u00a0\u201cUNDER THE INFLUENCE” [http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/UnderTheInfluence-Teaser],\u00a0releasing Friday, June 24th.\u00a0Drawing from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}