• Writer: Dave Peverett
• Producer: Nick Jameson
• Recorded: Late summer/early fall 1974 at Suntreader Studio in Sharon, Vermont
• Released: Spring 1975
• Players:
  “Lonesome” Dave Peverett — vocals, guitar
  Rod Price — guitar, vocals
  Nick Jameson — bass, vocals
  Roger Earl — drums
• Album: Fool For The City (Bearsville, 1975)
• Also On:
  Foghat Live (Bearsville, 1977)
  The Best Of Foghat (Rhino, 1989)
  Road Cases (Plum, 1998)
  The Essentials (Rhino, 2002)
  Decades Live (Sanctuary, 2003)
• Foghat was formed in 1971 by Savoy Brown singer-guitarist “Lonesome” Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl, who were joined by slide guitarist Rod Price.
• The group built its reputation with nearly non-stop touring.
• Stevens left the band prior to the recording of Fool For The City and was replaced by Nick Jameson, who had produced the group’s previous album, Rock And Roll Outlaws. A guitarist by trade, Jameson learned to play bass during a week of woodshedding at Peverett’s house.
• Peverett said “Slow Ride” was inspired by American soul music — “I was originally writing a song with kind of an Al Green kind of groove to it, messing around… We got the riff going and I started singing, and the words pretty much wrote themselves. And that evening we were rehearsing, I went down there, played everybody the song. I think Nick wanted to do it like a jug-band kind of thing, and I said, ‘No, I think this could be like a rocker,’ even though its original inspiration was Al Green. It was gonna be a Foghat type of song.”
• Peverett said it was finished quickly: “The whole song was written and arranged in one day, which doesn’t happen hardly at all.”
• As for the lyrics, Peverett said he’s confident most listeners will understand what he’s singing about. “It’s open to interpretation, I think, that one. It doesn’t take too much to interpret it in the correct way, does it?”
• According to Peverett, Foghat’s label was initially reluctant to release “Slow Ride” as a single, but the group insisted. “Usually we leave it up to the record company to decide what singles they want to put out. We do an album, and there’s nothing on there we’re ashamed of. We say, ‘You go ahead and put out whatever you feel like as a single.’ With ‘Slow Ride,’ we were pretty adamant about the fact it should be a single.”
• The band made the right choice — “Slow Ride” hit Number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Foghat’s best showing ever.
• The Fool For The City album was Foghat’s breakthrough record, hitting Number 23 on the Billboard 200 chart.

FAST FORWARD:

• After breaking up in the ’80s, Foghat regrouped in 1999 with the original lineup of Peverett, Price, Stevens, and Earl.
• Peverett died on February 7th, 2000, after battling cancer. He was 56 years old.
• Foghat continues to tour and record with Earl, guitarist Bryan Bassett, singer-guitarist Charlie Huhn, and bassist Craig MacGregor, who’s returned to the band.
• In 2003, Foghat released a new studio album called Family Joules.
• Price died March 22nd, 2005, at age 57 after falling down the stairs and suffering a fatal head trauma at his home in New Hampshire.

In late 2005, ex-bassist Stevens was hit with a temporary injunction after he was advertising his own shows by calling his band Foghat. Stevens has since renamed his group Slow Ride, and they’re hoping for a May release for an album with updated versions of some Foghat songs.