Savoy Brown – Bring It Home (Viceroy Music).
Bring It Home opens with Mr Brown Boogie, a fast paced instrumental with excellent slide guitar from Kim Simmonds and Pete McMahon on harmonica manages to keep up the pace too. Sweet Loving Thing is a grinding blues rock, the kind that John Mayall excels at. There is a gritty vocal from former Kingsnakes front man McMahon and punchy guitar from Simmonds. Too Much Of A Good Thing has another excellent vocal from McMahon – swing/jump blues this time but Simmonds guitar is consistent and former Robert Cray Band drummer, Dave Olson keeps the whole thing together. Misery is blues based rock and more than competent standard fare. Your head will be nodding to the staccato beat of Willie Dixon’s Shake For Me as Simmonds and Hubert Sumlin trade riffs. Pack It Up, with pounding bass from Jim Heyl is a Freddie King song turned into blues rock, British style. Savoy Brown and their ilk cornered this market in the 60s and 70s and the genre went on to spawn Free and many others.
‘Lonesome Dave’ Peverett is the guest vocalist on High On Your Love, which could be classed as an old shuffling Texas style blues. The harmonica gets another outing here and is used to great effect. The grinding Worried Man has more of Simmonds’ excellent slide guitar and the vocals are better than its predecessor. John Lee Hooker’s Little Wheel is given a sympathetic treatment and the guitar and harp get it on at the beginning. This is more rhythmic than the original but not quite as hypnotic. Percy Mayfield’s You’re In For A Big Surprise (the title, not a statement) is a big, powerful, sophisticated blues and there are strong vocal and harmonica performances on the New Orleans flavoured Real Fine Woman. The contemporary blues of That’s What Love Will Do are still fresh, even 12 years after the original release. They finish with Baby Please, a slow moody Chicago blues that has Simmonds’ guitar and the vocal melding very well.
http://www.savoybrown.com/
David Blue.
Bring It Home opens with Mr Brown Boogie, a fast paced instrumental with excellent slide guitar from Kim Simmonds and Pete McMahon on harmonica manages to keep up the pace too. Sweet Loving Thing is a grinding blues rock, the kind that John Mayall excels at. There is a gritty vocal from former Kingsnakes front man McMahon and punchy guitar from Simmonds. Too Much Of A Good Thing has another excellent vocal from McMahon – swing/jump blues this time but Simmonds guitar is consistent and former Robert Cray Band drummer, Dave Olson keeps the whole thing together. Misery is blues based rock and more than competent standard fare. Your head will be nodding to the staccato beat of Willie Dixon’s Shake For Me as Simmonds and Hubert Sumlin trade riffs. Pack It Up, with pounding bass from Jim Heyl is a Freddie King song turned into blues rock, British style. Savoy Brown and their ilk cornered this market in the 60s and 70s and the genre went on to spawn Free and many others.
‘Lonesome Dave’ Peverett is the guest vocalist on High On Your Love, which could be classed as an old shuffling Texas style blues. The harmonica gets another outing here and is used to great effect. The grinding Worried Man has more of Simmonds’ excellent slide guitar and the vocals are better than its predecessor. John Lee Hooker’s Little Wheel is given a sympathetic treatment and the guitar and harp get it on at the beginning. This is more rhythmic than the original but not quite as hypnotic. Percy Mayfield’s You’re In For A Big Surprise (the title, not a statement) is a big, powerful, sophisticated blues and there are strong vocal and harmonica performances on the New Orleans flavoured Real Fine Woman. The contemporary blues of That’s What Love Will Do are still fresh, even 12 years after the original release. They finish with Baby Please, a slow moody Chicago blues that has Simmonds’ guitar and the vocal melding very well.
http://www.savoybrown.com/
David Blue.
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