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FOGHAT Fool For The City Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL 1-295 HALF-SPEED MASTERED from the Original Analog Tape
Tracklist A1Fool For The City4:32A2My Babe4:36A3Slow Ride8:14

B1Terraplane Blues5:45B2Save Your Loving (For Me)3:32B3Drive Me Home3:56B4Take It Or Leave It4:55
Recorded At – Suntreader Studios Mixed At – Suntreader Studios Bass, Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals – Nick Jameson Drums, Percussion – Roger Earl Guitar, Guitar [Slide], Vocals – Rod "The Bottle" Price* Guitar, Lead Vocals, Other [Heavy Breathing] – Dave Peverett Mastered By –  Notes Numbered Limited Edition 
Gatefold Sleeve 
Gain 2 Ultra Analog 

Seems to have been released with both a green and a yellow band on top of the front cover. Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 8 21797 12951 0 Matrix / Runout: MFSL 1-295 A1 SRB/2 "Lonesome Dave Lives" 17802.1(3) Matrix / Runout: MFSL 1-295 B3 SRB/2 "vertical! 17862.2(3)
AllMusic Review by Donald A. Guarisco
     After building a solid core audience through relentless touring and a string of hard-rocking albums, Foghat finally hit the big time in 1975 with Fool for the City. It still stands out as the best album in the group's catalog because it matched their road-tested abilities as hard rockers to a consistent set of tunes that were both well-crafted and ambitious. The tone for the album is set by its title track: This hard-rocking gem not only pairs riff-driven verses with an effective shout-along chorus, but also throws in a few surprising moments where the guitars are taken out of the mix completely and Nick Jameson's bass is allowed to take the lead in a funky breakdown. Fool for the City also produced an enduring rock radio favorite in "Slow Ride," a stomping rock tune that transcends the inherent clichés of its "love is like a car ride" lyrics with a furious performance from the band and a clever arrangement that works in well-timed automotive sound effects during the verses and plays up the band's ability to work an R&B-styled groove into their hard-rocking sound (again, note the thumping bassline from Jameson). Further radio play was earned with "Take It or Leave It," an acoustic-based ballad that worked synthesizers into its subtle yet carefully layered arrangement to become one of the group's finest slow numbers. The album's other songs don't stand like the aforementioned selections, but they all flow together nicely thanks to a consistently inspired performance from the band and clever little arrangement frills that keep the group's boogie-oriented rock fresh (example: the witty spoken word bit at the end of "Drive Me Home"). All in all, Fool for the City is both Foghat's finest achievement in the studio and one of the high points of 1970s hard rock.