Hair of the Dog by Nazareth

Hair of the Dog, Nazareth's sixth album, came out in April 1975, and it's the sound of the Dunfermline hard rockers finally kicking down America's door. After three records with Deep Purple's Roger Glover producing, the band handed the job to their own Manny Charlton, and they cut it at Escape Studios in Kent before finishing the recording and mixing at AIR Studios in London.

The title track is a snarling, stomping brute, with Dan McCafferty sounding as if he gargled with gravel, and then comes the curveball: a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", sung like every word leaves a bruise. Between them those two carried the band's name far beyond Britain and Canada, and the album became their best-known and biggest-selling record, past two million copies worldwide.

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