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Classic Album Review: Nazareth | Boogaloo

The reconstituted rockers deliver 11 competent (if unspectacular) clones of their blues-based, shredded-throat boogie-rock for drunken air-guitarists everywhere.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Dig, if you will, the picture: You’re at the Classic Rock festival in a park near you. Your shirt’s off, your beer belly is sunburned, the empty 12-pack box is on your head and you’ve just finished playing air guitar with Loverboy.

Now, up lumber the aging Nazareth, reconstituted like orange juice from the ’70s (except for MIA guitarist Manny Charlton, who presumably invested more wisely). Now: What are you gonna want to hear? This Flight Tonight and Razamanaz, or these 11 competent (if unspectacular) clones of their blues-based, shredded-throat boogie-rock? You know what the answer is.