Nazareth

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Nazareth are one of the UK’s finest ever classic rock bands.

The band are perhaps best known for their breakthrough albums, 'Razamanazz’ and 'Loud n Proud’ - (both 1973) and their chart-storming singles, 'Bad Bad Boy’, 'Broken Down Angel’ , 'Love Hurts’, 'My White Bicycle’ and their remarkable adaptation of Joni Mitchell’s 'This Flight Tonight’. Since then the band have released a steady stream of top-notch albums and retained a steadfast, almost rabid fan base across the world.

Nazareth has sold an impressive over 60 million records in their 40 year music career worldwide for which they count as one of the best known and most successful Scottish bands ever. On their new album 'Big Dogz', they have returned to their roots, pure rock music with its rough edges, like it’s straight from the '70s. Exactly how rock should sound – and that’s how Nazareth lays it down.

Formed in 1968, Nazareth sprung from the ashes of a semi-professional local band, 'The Shadettes’, eventually taking their name from the opening line from 'The Weight’ - the classic song by The Band. Releasing their first album in 1971, the band still features the gravel-voiced DAN McCAFFERTY and bassist PETE AGNEW, alongside lead guitarist JIMMY MURRISON and LEE AGNEW who has more recently taken over the drum stool for so long occupied by the sadly departed DARRELL SWEET.

For their 40th anniversary, Naz decided to record a come-back album. earMUSIC released 'The Newz’ in 2008, proving once again that Nazareth is fully committed to rock and always satisfy with great songwriting and a fresh sound. The contemporary production brilliantly held true to their roots and really emphasize the extraordinary voice of Dan McCafferty.

'Big Dogz’ was recorded in Prague and mixed in Basel, produced by guitar player Jimmy Murrison and young Swiss sound-wizard Yann Rouiller, the album has a challenging approach to production. In contrast with rock music’s current tendency to be clean and overproduced in order to be perfect and easily consumed, Nazareth´s album focuses on capturing the dangerous and challenging edge that rock music should have, too often lost in the chase for perfection. For this reason, Nazareth have always truly concentrated on bringing out that dirty, challenging, edginess of real rock