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Boogaloo
01/12/1999 3:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Bob Gulla
Every rock fan over 30 knows Nazareth, a band formed in 1968 in Scotland, reached their creative peak a-way back in 1975 with Hair Of The Dog, a hard rock album featuring their top 10 single, a cover of "Love Hurts." Since then, the band has kept at it with varying degrees of success--mostly small--touring, making records, trying to reclaim the same mid-'70s hard rock audience that AC/DC stole out from under them decades ago. Boogaloo, their first set in five years, introduces new guitarist Jimmy Murrison, who walks in original player's Manny Charlton's giant, three-chord footsteps skillfully on reverberant hard rock like "Light Comes Down" and the churning boogie of "Waiting." In the end, it's vocal presence Dan McCafferty's patented, sandpaper yowl that gives the band its hook, and while it's not enough to recommend the recording, it helps turn Boogaloo into a competent, well-executed hard rock experience.
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