Savoy Brown – The Blues Keep Me Holding On (Mystic Music).
Savoy Brown has been around as a band for what seems like an eternity. This incarnation, from 1999, has perennial member Kim Simmonds joined by Nathaniel Peterson on bass and Tom Compton on drums as well as a number of guests. They open with Going Down To Mobile, a standard blues but of very high quality. She’s Leaving is an electric blues that will bore its way into your very being. Just sit there and feel the blues. Willie Dixon’s That’s All I Want Baby is a bit more up-tempo and utilises the acoustic slide guitar of Duke Robillard – extremely easy to listen to. The eponymous title track is a funky blues and Bad Shape is a slow blues of the kind that Gary Moore excels – classy playing.
Mississippi Steamboat is a fast paced, good time blues. Simmonds’ vocal is not the best but his stinging guitar more than makes up for it. Ain’t No Need To Worry is an acoustic blues with an authentic Delta feel. Headline News is contemporary (even though the album is from 1999) and has soaring guitar. Little Red Rooster is Chicago blues, as expected. However, it is very much different from the better known versions of The Rolling Stones and Howlin’ Wolf. There is a long guitar intro for a start. This is an excellent version of Willie Dixon’s classic and one that will be my favourite for some time to come. When You’ve Got A Good Friend has them electrifying Robert Johnson. I’m not sure about Simmonds’ vocal again, though. More up-tempo than the original and the guitar is the star. Peterson and Compton keep the rhythm well and it gets good marks overall. Everybody Says They Want It is an upbeat finish and a good time is had by all as Simmonds and Robillard swap guitar licks with ease.
http://www.mysticmusic.com/
http://www.lightyear.com/
http://www.savoybrown.com/
David Blue.
Savoy Brown has been around as a band for what seems like an eternity. This incarnation, from 1999, has perennial member Kim Simmonds joined by Nathaniel Peterson on bass and Tom Compton on drums as well as a number of guests. They open with Going Down To Mobile, a standard blues but of very high quality. She’s Leaving is an electric blues that will bore its way into your very being. Just sit there and feel the blues. Willie Dixon’s That’s All I Want Baby is a bit more up-tempo and utilises the acoustic slide guitar of Duke Robillard – extremely easy to listen to. The eponymous title track is a funky blues and Bad Shape is a slow blues of the kind that Gary Moore excels – classy playing.
Mississippi Steamboat is a fast paced, good time blues. Simmonds’ vocal is not the best but his stinging guitar more than makes up for it. Ain’t No Need To Worry is an acoustic blues with an authentic Delta feel. Headline News is contemporary (even though the album is from 1999) and has soaring guitar. Little Red Rooster is Chicago blues, as expected. However, it is very much different from the better known versions of The Rolling Stones and Howlin’ Wolf. There is a long guitar intro for a start. This is an excellent version of Willie Dixon’s classic and one that will be my favourite for some time to come. When You’ve Got A Good Friend has them electrifying Robert Johnson. I’m not sure about Simmonds’ vocal again, though. More up-tempo than the original and the guitar is the star. Peterson and Compton keep the rhythm well and it gets good marks overall. Everybody Says They Want It is an upbeat finish and a good time is had by all as Simmonds and Robillard swap guitar licks with ease.
http://www.mysticmusic.com/
http://www.lightyear.com/
http://www.savoybrown.com/
David Blue.
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