Zig-Zag Walk Explained

Zig-Zag Walk
Type:studio
Artist:Foghat
Cover:Zig-Zag Walk.jpg
Released:11 May 1983
Genre:Rock
Length:36:04
Label:Bearsville (Original release)
Rhino (2006 CD reissue)
Producer:Nick Jameson (as Franz Leipkin)
Prev Title:In the Mood for Something Rude
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:Return of the Boogie Men
Next Year:1994

Zig-Zag Walk is the twelfth studio album by British hard rock band Foghat, released in 1983. Unlike the previous year's In the Mood for Something Rude, which consisted of all outside material, lead singer Dave Peverett wrote five of the album's ten songs, with guitarist Erik Cartwright contributing a sixth. A few of the songs are given a rockabilly treatment augmenting the blues rock the band is better known for. It would be the band's last album for over a decade until their comeback album, Return of the Boogie Men, in 1994.

Producer "Franz Leipkin" and keyboardist "Eli Jenkins" are pseudonyms for old bandmate Nick Jameson, who had played in Foghat in 1975 and produced or co-produced various Foghat albums in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] Paul Butterfield makes a guest appearance on one song,[2] playing harmonica on "Seven Day Weekend".

Track listing

  1. "That's What Love Can Do" (Dave Peverett) – 3:54
  2. "Zig-Zag Walk" (Peverett) – 3:28
  3. "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Vaughn Horton) – 2:43
  4. "Jenny Don't Mind" (Erik Cartwright) – 4:37
  5. "Three Wheel Cadillac" (Peverett) – 3:55
  6. "It'll Be Me" (Jack Clement) – 3:29
  7. "Silent Treatment" (Peverett) – 3:17
  8. "Down the Road a Piece" (Don Raye) – 2:35
  9. "Seven Day Weekend" (Peverett) – 4:10
  10. "Linda Lou" (Jon Jelmer) – 3:46

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foghat. January 2020.
  2. Web site: Interview with Foghat's Roger Earl . Classicrockmusicblog.com. 18 May 2021.