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\nFOGHAT have spent more than five decades proving that boogie rock works best when the amps are hot and the room is sweating. \u201cLive & Loud Across the U.S.A.\u201d catches the current lineup doing exactly that \u2014 loose enough to breathe, tight enough to hit, and still dragging a filthy blues groove behind every riff.<\/p>\n
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Recorded across American shows during the band\u2019s recent touring years, the live set was never originally conceived as a carefully staged concert album. The tapes simply accumulated while FOGHAT kept playing, and that spontaneity gives the record much of its charm. You can hear a working band rather than a museum reconstruction: tempos flex, guitars snarl, and the songs carry the grease and road dust of actual stages.<\/p>\n
The first disc concentrates on FOGHAT proper. \u201cMy Babe\u201d opens with blues-rock swagger before \u201cDrivin\u2019 On\u201d and \u201cRoad Fever\u201d push the engine harder. \u201cShe\u2019s a Little Bit of Everything\u201d and \u201cBlack Days & Blue Nights\u201d show that the current lineup is not surviving purely on nostalgia, while older cuts like \u201cHome in My Hand\u201d and \u201cThird Time Lucky\u201d slide naturally beside the newer material.<\/p>\n
Scott Holt sounds particularly comfortable in this setting. His vocals have enough grit to stand against the guitars, and Bryan Bassett\u2019s slide playing keeps slicing through the arrangements like sparks off a grinder. Underneath them, Rodney O\u2019Quinn and founding drummer Roger Earl provide exactly the sort of unflashy, rolling foundation that this music needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt Hurts Me Too\u201d slows the pulse without cooling anything down, and \u201cHole to Hide In\u201d reaches all the way back to the band\u2019s 1972 debut. The closing stretch then turns into a full bar-room takeover: \u201cSweet Home Chicago\u201d stretches past seven minutes before \u201cI Just Want to Make Love to You\u201d gets nearly ten minutes to smoke, grind and swagger its way to the finish.<\/p>\n
Disc Two switches over to Earl & The Agitators, essentially the same FOGHAT family letting its roots show even more openly. Blues, country, roots rock and old-school rock \u2019n\u2019 roll come to the front on \u201cUpside of Lonely\u201d, \u201cGuess Things Happen That Way\u201d, \u201cLinda Lu\u201d and \u201cHi-Heel Sneakers\u201d, while the live material at the end loosens the collar another notch.<\/p>\n
That second disc is more than padding. It shows where the FOGHAT machine gets its fuel: blues clubs, roadhouses, country records and the sort of music meant to sound better after midnight. Put together, the two discs feel less like a conventional live album and more like an X-ray of the band\u2019s entire musical bloodstream.<\/p>\n
FOGHAT may have formed back in 1971, but \u201cLive & Loud Across the U.S.A.\u201d does not sound like a band staring at its scrapbook. It sounds like four guys still enjoying the simple pleasure of turning up loud, leaning into the groove and watching the room move.<\/p>\n
Country: UK \/ US
\nLabel: Foghat Records
\nGenre: Blues Rock \/ Boogie Rock \/ Hard Rock
\nRelease date: October 30, 2026
\nFormat: 2CD \/ Triple Vinyl \/ Digital
\nTotal time: 2:26:08<\/p>\n
Disc 1 \u2013 Live & Loud Across the U.S.A.<\/p>\n
01 \u2013 My Babe (Live) (4:49)
\n02 \u2013 Drivin\u2019 On (Live) (4:16)
\n03 \u2013 Road Fever (Live) (5:11)
\n04 \u2013 She\u2019s a Little Bit of Everything (Live) (3:08)
\n05 \u2013 Let Me Love You Baby (Live) (4:06)
\n06 \u2013 Black Days & Blue Nights (Live) (4:38)
\n07 \u2013 Home in My Hand (Live) (5:27)
\n08 \u2013 Slipped, Tripped, Fell in Love (Live) (4:13)
\n09 \u2013 It Hurts Me Too (Live) (5:22)
\n10 \u2013 Hole to Hide In (Live) (3:49)
\n11 \u2013 Somebody\u2019s Been Sleeping in My Bed (Live) (3:52)
\n12 \u2013 Third Time Lucky (Live) (4:15)
\n13 \u2013 Sweet Home Chicago (Live) (7:39)
\n14 \u2013 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Live) (9:55)<\/p>\n
Disc 2 \u2013 Shaken & Stirred<\/p>\n
01 \u2013 Upside of Lonely (4:21)
\n02 \u2013 Where\u2019s the Rock n\u2019 Roll (5:56)
\n03 \u2013 I\u2019m Coming Home (4:20)
\n04 \u2013 Guess Things Happen That Way (2:38)
\n05 \u2013 Love Isn\u2019t Kind (5:49)
\n06 \u2013 Fallen Angel (4:21)
\n07 \u2013 Hi-Heel Sneakers (4:40)
\n08 \u2013 Linda Lu (3:10)
\n09 \u2013 Honey Do List (4:38)
\n10 \u2013 Lonesome Train (3:00)
\n11 \u2013 Sunday Morning Coming Down (4:08)
\n12 \u2013 Gone Dead Train (2:50)
\n13 \u2013 All Because of You (5:11)
\n14 \u2013 Shaky Ground (Live) (4:12)
\n15 \u2013 Wild Horses (Live) (5:37)
\n16 \u2013 Knock on Wood (Live) (3:16)
\n17 \u2013 Peter Gunn Theme (Live) (7:21)<\/p>\n
FOGHAT:
\nRoger Earl \u2013 Drums
\nScott Holt \u2013 Lead Vocals, Guitar
\nBryan Bassett \u2013 Slide Guitar, Lead Guitar
\nRodney O\u2019Quinn \u2013 Bass, Lead & Background Vocals
\nEddie LeFebvre \u2013 Percussion, Background Vocals<\/p>\n
Recorded across the U.S.A. by Tim Franquist
\nMixed by Tim Franquist
\nMastered by Bryan Bassett<\/p>\n
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\nFOGHAT have spent more than five decades proving that boogie rock works best when the amps are hot and the room is sweating. \u201cLive & Loud Across the U.S.A.\u201d catches the current lineup doing exactly that \u2014 loose enough to breathe, tight enough to hit, and still dragging a filthy blues groove behind every riff.<\/p>\n