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The Complete Bearsville Album Collection (Album of the Day)
The Complete Bearsville Album Collection (Album of the Day)
Boogie Motel (Album of the Day)
BOOGIE MOTEL was the final album of the 1970s from AOR hitmakers Foghat. The Bearsville collection features the radio-friendly sheen heard on the band's previous STONE BLUE applied to the U.K. quartet's trademark pedal-to-the-metal blues-rock. Highlights include power ballad “Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was a Fool)” and “Somebody's Been Sleepin' in My Bed,” the only one of these seven tracks not written or cowritten by Lonesome Dave Peverett. The frontman is in terrific voice here, and guitarist Rod Price serves up some tasty licks, making the set a fan favorite - for a good time, check into the gold-certified BOOGIE MOTEL.
Healing (Album of the Day)
Todd Rundgren's ninth studio set, HEALING was released 40 years ago today, launching the multi-talented performer into the MTV decade (the album's “Compassion” was one of the first videos played on the channel). Like several previous efforts, the Bearsville collection is basically a one-man show, featuring the prodigiously gifted singer-songwriter-producer-instrumentalist on all nine tracks. And like earlier albums, it features both beautiful balladry and power-pop (the sparkling companion single “Time Heals,” included as a bonus track, offers more of the latter). Tasty as the ear candy is here, HEALING is unusually meditative – particularly in the side-long “Healing” suite - this is some of the most spiritual and inspiring music of Todd Rundgren's career.
Healing (Album of the Day)
Foghat Live (Album of the Day)
The 1970s represented a golden age for both arena rock and live albums, and the two intersect to magnificent effect on FOGHAT LIVE. The half-dozen songs on the 1977 Bearsville collection push blues 'n' boogie into overdrive, offering plenty of room for "Lonesome" Dave Peverett's rafter-rattling vocals and Rod Price's slide guitar to stretch out. Recorded at the peak of Foghat's popularity, the concert included all their best-known songs (“Slow Ride,” “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” “Fool For The City”) with fresh arrangements that often surpass the studio versions. Released 40 years ago this month, the double-Platinum FOGHAT LIVE was the U.K. quartet's best-selling album, and one listen makes it easy to hear why.