Career
Peverett was an avid fan of the blues and of blues-based rock and roll, and mastered these forms while performing. Then, after a brief tour with Swiss blues band, Les Questions, Dave joined Savoy Brown as a rhythm guitarist, eventually also taking over as lead singer and adding the nickname Lonesome, for reasons cited below. After five albums with Savoy Brown, he decided to pursue his own path, along with drummer Roger Earl and taking bassist Tony Stevens with them.
The new project took form with the addition of lead guitarist Rod Price in 1971.
He used his new word to create Junior Foghat, an imaginary childhood playmate who became an alter ego and therefore the genesis of the "Lonesome Dave" persona that he was to employ as a performer. Foghat soon recorded their first, self-titled album for Bearsville Records, with Todd Rundgren and Dave Edmunds each producing tracks.
With the success of an early single, a cover version of Willie Dixon"s "I Just Want to Make Love to You", their debut release soon went gold. This would be the first of many gold and platinum albums for Peverett.
In 1974, Foghat released two gold albums, Energized and Rock & Roll Outlaws.
Their first platinum album, Fool for the City, was released in 1975, producing three hit singles: the title track, "My Babe", and "Slow Ride". Fool for the City featured Nick Jameson on bass, temporarily replacing Foghat bassist Tony Stevens. Jameson also toured with Foghat in support of the album.
In 1976, with the addition of bassist Craig MacGregor, they began touring even larger venues, and recorded another gold album, Night Shift, followed by the highly successful 1977 live album Foghat Live album.
Their next album, Stone Blue, was again certified gold. At the encouragement of Rick Rubin, Peverett reunited with the original Foghat line-up in 1993, beginning the first of several tours.
He continued to write and record songs not only for Foghat, but also for a wide variety of projects, until his death from cancer in February 2000. He even embarked on what would become his final tour after receiving months of intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Peverett died in an Orlando, Florida hospital on 7 February 2000 as the results of complications from cancer.