01	Go Down Fighting						03:06
	02	Not Faking It						04:01
	03	Turn On Your Receiver						03:19
	04	Teenage Nervous Breakdown						03:43
	05	Free Wheeler						05:31
	06	This Flight Tonight						03:24
	07	Child In The Sun						04:51
	08	The Ballad Of Hollis Brown						09:11
	09	This Flight Tonight (US Version)						03:24
	10	Go Down Fighting (US Version)						03:05
	11	The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Edited Version)						05:09
	12	Friends						03:24
	13	If You See My Baby						02:57
	14	This Flight Tonight (1992 Version)						03:35

Loud 'N' Proud
Date of Release 1974

After putting themselves on the hard rock map with Razamanaz, Nazareth took their new, forceful style even further the next year on Loud & Proud. With Roger Glover once again at the controls, the group added even higher levels of distortion and energy to create one of the hardest rocking items in their catalog: "Go Down Fighting" starts the album with a sonic boom thanks to its blend of furious riffing with a breathless tempo, and the group's cover of "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" transforms this Little Feat into a runaway locomotive of hard rock riffing. However, the album's definitive moment of heaviness is their extended reworking of Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of Hollis Brown," which drenches the tune in ungodly levels of feedback to create an ominous, horror movie-style feel. Loud & Proud also produced another hit single for the group with a cover of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," which transforms the wistful original into a throbbing rock song. The end result of this ultra-heavy approach is that the album lacks the accessibility and high level of experimentation that characterized Razamanaz. That said, the album does retain a few stylistic curve balls to keep listeners on their toes: "Turn on Your Receiver" is a mid-tempo slice of country rock (complete with an exaggerated Southern accent in the vocal) and "Child in the Sun," a stately ballad dominated by acoustic guitars. In the end, Loud & Proud lacks the crossover appeal of Razamanaz but remains a bracing collection of rockers that will entertain Nazareth fans and anyone else with a yen for 1970s hard rock. - Donald A. Guarisco

1. Go Down Fighting (Agnew/Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 3:07
2. Not Faking It (Agnew/Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 4:01
3. Turn on Your Receiver (Agnew/Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 3:19
4. Teenage Nervous Breakdown (George) - 3:43
5. Free Wheeler (Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 5:31
6. This Flight Tonight (Mitchell) - 3:24
7. Child in the Sun (Agnew/Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 4:51
8. The Ballad of Hollis Brown (Dylan) - 9:11
9. This Flight Tonight [*] (Mitchell) - 3:24
10. Go Down Fighting [*] (Agnew/Charlton/McCafferty/Sweet) - 3:05
11. The Ballad of Hollis Brown [*] (Dylan) - 5:10


Roger Glover - Bass, Percussion, Producer
Dan McCafferty - Vocals
Pete Agnew - Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Vocals
Mike Brown - Remastering
Manny Charlton - Guitar, Producer
Geoff Emerick - Engineer
Darrell Sweet - Percussion, Drums, Vocals
Bob Harper - Engineer
Robert M. Corich - Remastering
John Mills - Engineer
Manuel Charlton - Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Slide Guitar

1996 CD Castle ESM379
1992 CD Castle CA174
1974 LP A&M 3609
A&M SP-3609



Go Down Fighting
Composed By Pete Agnew/Manuel Charlton/Dan McCafferty/Darrell Sweet
Performed By Nazareth

AMG REVIEW: After establishing their knack for hard rock on Razamanaz, Nazareth pushed even further on this direction on their prophetically titled follow-up Loud 'N' Proud. The album started with a bang thanks to a "Go Down Fighting," a storming rocker that represented Nazareth's uptempo hard rock side at its finest. The amusing lyrics apply a hard rock mindset to the pursuit of love, presenting an attempt to court an object of affection as an all-out military assault: "I'm gonna go down fighting/Cause I know that I'm right and/I'm gonna go down fighting for your love." The music maintains the over-the-top feel of the lyrics by pairing hyperactive verse melodies crammed with fast-moving notes to a shout-along chorus build on ascending phrases. Nazareth's recording of "Go Down Fighting" is an all-guns-blazing affair that layers huge sheets of power chords over a throbbing backbeat that sounds like it might explode at any moment. Singing over such a din would be a challenge to many vocalists but Dan McCafferty's lead vocal does the trick nicely, cutting through the hard-rocking wall of sound like a buzzsaw thanks to his one-of-a-kind banshee wail. The result was probably a bit too overpowering to be a hit single but became a favorite with hard-rock fans and a reliable concert favorite for Nazareth. - Donald A. Guarisco



This Flight Tonight
Composed By Joni Mitchell
Performed By Nazareth

AMG REVIEW: Nazareth stood apart from many hard rock outfits of the 1970's because they were able to pull off unique cover versions of folk and country-styled material that didn't seem like obvious hard rock fodder. One of their earliest successes in this arena was "This Flight Tonight," a driving rock treatment of a classic $Joni Mitchell tune. The lyrics are a sensitive character sketch of a lovestruck soul who is trying to get through an airplane flight while pining over a lover who's on the ground: "Star light, star bright/You got the loving that I like/Turn this crazy bird around/Should not have got on this flight tonight." The music adds emotion to this tale with a melody that builds from verses that ebb and flow in a forlorn fashion to a majestic yet heartbreaking chorus whose ascending phrases underscore the song's yearning tone. Nazareth's recording of "This Flight Tonight" translates the song's emotional charge into musical power with a stylish guitar-heavy arrangement: Manny Charlton lays down atmospheric layers of muted guitar feedback over a throbbing midtempo beat that moves a carefully modulated gallop, creating an atmospheric, tense sound that conveys the song's heartache in an unusual but effective fashion. The final touch is Dan McCafferty's vocal, which is raw enough to live up to the heavy instrumental approach but vulnerable enough to do the lyrics justice. This unique balancing of sensitivity and musical muscle made "This Flight Tonight" a #11 hit in the U.K. and a radio favorite in the U.S., where it got high marks from the song's author for its imaginative arrangement. "This Flight Tonight" also became a live standard for Nazareth and a keyboard-laced live version of the song can be heard on 'Snaz. - Donald A. Guarisco