Foghat – "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (1975)

I don’t want you cook my bread

I don’t want you make my bed

I don’t want your money too

I just want to make love to you

Let’s be honest.  You don’t really want to “make love” to her, do you?

(Guys will say anything.)

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Chicago blues legend Willie Dixon wrote “I Just Want to Make Love to You” in 1954.   (Dixon’s songs – he wrote or co-wrote over 500 – have been recorded not only by many great blues singers, but also by classic rock bands like the Rolling Stones, Doors, and Led Zeppelin.)

Willie Dixon

Muddy Waters was the first to record “I Just Want to Make Love to You.”  In his version of the song, the verse quoted above is the third verse.  

In Dixon’s own recording, it’s the second verse.

But it’s the first verse in Foghat’s cover of the song.

Foghat also leaves out the “to” that precedes the verbs in most of the song’s lines.  (“I don’t want you to cook my bread” becomes “I don’t want you cook my bread” and “I don’t want you to make my bed” becomes “I don’t want you make my bed.”)  

Producer Dave Edmunds may have gotten that idea from the Animals’ recording of the song, which not only omitted the “to’s” but also made the verse quoted above the first verse.  

By the way . . . do you find it odd that Dixon wrote “cook my bread” rather than “bake my bread”?  (I haven’t seen that expression anywhere else.)

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I never thought much about Foghat – never bought any of their albums.  But they were money!  (Of their first eight albums, five went gold, one went platinum, and one went double platinum.)

Foghat in 1975

“Fool for the City” was a great hard-rock record – I’m shocked it made it only to #45 on the Billboard “Hot 100.”

And what’s not to like about “Slow Ride”?  After all, Richard Linklater chose it to accompany the final scene of his iconic movie, Dazed and Confused.  (If “Slow Ride’ is good enough for Mitch Kramer, David Wooderson et al., it’s good enough for me.)

“I Just Want to Make Love to You” was the first track off Foghat’s eponymous debut album – these guys didn't waste any time in kicking *ss and taking names.  (For those of you who are relatively new to 2 or 3 lines, you should know that I rarely go longer than a month without slipping “eponymous debut album” into a post.)

Click here to listen to Foghat’s recording of “I Just Want to Make Love to You.”

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Foghat – "Slow Ride" (1975)

Slow down, go down

Got to get your lovin’ one more time

Hold me, roll me

Slow ridin’ woman, you’re so fine

Radio Caroline was a legendary pirate radio station that began broadcasting rock ’n’ roll hits to the UK and Europe in 1964 from a converted Danish ferry anchored in international waters:

 (The first record that Radio Caroline played?  “Not Fade Away,” by the Rolling Stones.)

The British government, which was determined to maintain its legal monopoly on radio broadcasting, eventually forced Radio Caroline off the air.  

But the station later resurfaced as an internet streaming station.  Click here to go to its website.

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A couple of months ago, I began to follow Suzy Wilde – the self-proclaimed “superannuated rock chick” who broadcasts a weekly Radio Caroline show from her home in the south of France – on Facebook.

Suzy Wilde

Suzy recently challenged her followers to ruin a band’s name by changing one letter.

At first, this seemed like a rather silly attempt to getting more people to post on her Facebook page.  But many of the responses posted by her readers were quite brilliant.

Here are some of the best:

– Jethro Dull

– Rolling Scones

– Moldy Blues

– Canned Meat

– Poo Fighters 

– Alice Pooper

– Huey Lewis and the Jews

– Guns ’n’ Moses

– The Belch Boys

– The Small Feces

– Cheap Prick

– The Boobie Brothers

– T. Sex

– Pearl Ham

– AC/AC

– DC/DC

– Grand F*ck Railroad

– Blue Öyster Cu*t

and, last but not least:

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“Slow Ride” was a top-20 hit for Foghat in 1975.

There’s not a lot to the song, but Foghat stretched the hell out of it.

Director Richard Linklater chose to play “Slow Ride” over the final scene and closing credits of Dazed and Confused.  It was the perfect choice.

(I miss Joey Lauren Adams . . . )

Click here to listen to the album version of “Slow Ride” – all eight minutes and 14 seconds of it.

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