Loud 'n' Proud
Occupation
- Vocals: Dan McCafferty
- E -Bass: Pete Agnew
- Electric Guitar: Manny Charlton
- Drums: Darrell Sweet
Loud 'n' Proud is the title of the fourth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth.
Album
The LP was recorded in 1973 at The Gang Shut studio in Scotland sound engineer Bob Harper and produced by Roger Glover, bassist of Deep Purple. In 1973 it was first released on the label B & C Moon Crest. It is the fourth LP of the band as a direct successor to the published in the same year the album Razamanaz. The cover was made by Dave Field and shows the album title reproducing proud peacock with magnificent plumage. In most containing song material is rifforientierte hard rock pieces, but there are also elements of the blues ( Nothing unusual for hard rock bands of the day ) and a soulful ballad like Child in the Sun - played with acoustic guitar - use. The conclusion is the nearly ten-minute mammoth song The Ballad of Hollis Brown, originally composed by Bob Dylan.
At least on the European market, this disc became the most successful band; in Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Finland, it reached number one on the LP charts in Germany and came in second place, after all.
Singles
The song This Flight Tonight, a cover version of Joni Mitchell, was released as a single and together with the ballad Love Hurts the most famous of the Evergreen Group. Joni Mitchell was so impressed by the interpretation of their songs that they actually announced it on their concerts as Nazareth title. In the UK the single reached number 11 in Germany even place 2
The album opener Go Down Fighting was originally planned as a coupling, and a U.S. version of the song has also been cut together, but the idea of a single was again discarded. The single version is considered one of the bonus numbers can now be found on the remastered CD. Instead, at that time Turn on Your Receiver was released as the second song.
Formation
As Nazareth in 1972 played the opening act for Deep Purple, their bassist Roger Glover was impressed by the performance of the backing band. For Nazareth threatened at the time namely off after the first two stylistically rather disoriented slices. Although the ballad Morning Dew from the self-titled debut was a small moderate success, but the albums to Dato could still prevail so pretty in no buyers. The record company refused to finance additional LPs and promotion, so I needed a new financial backer and producer, and was found in Roger Glover. It replaced the previous manager Bill Frehilly and produced the Nazareth LP Razamanaz, with the breakthrough then succeeded, and the group found its niche in the hard rock genre and filled. When these points made , the label Nazareth urged to rapid as possible successors to keep the iron on glow. Only a few months after Razamanaz Loud 'n' Proud emerged in the same year in 1973 and established the Scots in almost all of Europe. In America, the album gained attention. The road to global success of Nazareth was now paved.