Hair of the Dog is the sixth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth,released in April 1975. The album was recorded at Escape Studios,Kent,with additional recording and mixing at AIR Studios,London. It is the group's best-known and highest-selling release,with over two million copies sold worldwide.[3]
Hair of The Dog was Nazareth's first big hit album (aside from the minor success of Razamanaz),including classics such as the title track,a version of The Everly Brothers' "Love Hurts" (on the US version,but not the Canadian/European,it replaced the original "Guilty"),"Beggars Day" and "Please Don't Judas Me".
According to Nazareth frontman Dan McCafferty,the track on Hair of the Dog in which a dishonest young woman finally meets her match provided the original album title with its recognizable chorus of "now you're messing with a…a son of a bitch!" (an "heir of the dog"). Nazareth's record label wasn't about to let them name the project Son of a Bitch. Thus,Hair of the Dog was selected as a compromise,putting the finishing touches on a career-defining release.[4] The album title is often considered to be a shortened form of the phrase describing a folk hangover cure,"the hair of the dog that bit you".
The album was first reissued on CD in the USA in 1984;the disc was manufactured in Japan with the inserts printed in Japan. There are also remastered editions released since 1997 with different sets of bonus tracks. The name of the creature on the album cover is unknown.
The album cover art was designed by David Fairbrother-Roe.
A tribute came in 1993 when Guns N' Roses covered Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" on "The Spaghetti Incident?";consolation after they turned down Axl Rose's request for the group to play at his wedding. "Axl really made me more aware of Nazareth…" recalled GNR guitarist Slash,"because he can sing like that McCafferty guy,and really dug his voice. And so I remember listening to Nazareth a lot at one point."[5] Rose mentioned McCafferty's vocals,specifically on "Love Hurts",as being very influential to his early singing development.[6]
↑Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
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