''Zig-Zag Walk'' is the twelfth studio

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by British

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band

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, released in 1983. Unlike the previous year's '' In the Mood for Something Rude'', which consisted of all outside material, lead singer

Dave Peverett David Jack Peverett (16 April 1943 – 7 February 2000), also known as Lonesome Dave, was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Rock music, rock band Foghat, which he co-founded fo ...

wrote five of the album's ten songs, with guitarist Erik Cartwright contributing a sixth. A few of the songs are given a

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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

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s 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.

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makes a guest appearance on one song, playing

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on "Seven Day Weekend".

Track listing

#"That's What Love Can Do" (

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

Personnel

*Dave Peverett — lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar *Erik Cartwright — lead guitar, slide guitar *Eli Jenkins — bass, backing vocals, keyboards *Roger Earl — drums

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1983 albums Foghat albums Bearsville Records albums Rhino Entertainment albums