heard these guys in the 70's and still continue. Love this song. This music ain't for the cookie cutter mass produce liking folks out there. No super bowl gigs for Savoy Brown....they are the real deal.
I consider myself to be in an exclusive club of Savoy Brown fans. Such an awesome group. The more I delve into their music IM FAMILIAR WITH--keep finding there is much more music from them than I was ever aware of. I'm ONE of the Special few! My first introduction was Street Corner Talkin' album. Love this band.
So sorry to read that guitarist Kim Simmonds, who was a great influence on my own guitar playing for over 50 years, has passed away just about 9 days ago on the 13th of this month just almost a week after his 75th birthday which was on the 5th. RIP Kim Simmonds ..5th December 1947 - 13th December 2022...thank you Kim Simmonds for all the great Blues/Blues Rock music ypu provided thru out my life and lead guitar lessons I got listening to you on Savoy Brown records over and over to learn how to play lead guitar in the 60s in my early teens and helped me learn the basics of the pentatonic scales as a young guitarist growing up in the 60s and influenced my own playing snd understanding of the fretboard for decades affter...RIP Guitar Maestro Kim Simmonds...
Redondo Beach pier, all white band called Luke & the Locomotives, I asked 'em to play Tell Mama by Savoy Brown, dude says, "white man's blues? with a sneer in his voice and on his face. I said, "dude, you're white and Savoy Brown has two black members."
Sounds simple and easy, doesn't it. Simmonds is an unsung talent. Some of the best rock/blues you're ever going to hear. He's morphed throughout the years -- for the better.
took my Volkswagen Bus from Germany al the way to Turkey and back over Greece and listen only to Savoy Brown one album after the next and al over again was a fantastic trip way back then in the 70s wish could do it again ha ha
Sounds like let's go . I had 8 track under my seat , pushed it in with my foot by chance , Savoy came on good and loud , thought I'd been hit by a semi ( for real ) there for a second .
remember the Boston Common and the Cambridge Common? Where you could get a sack for ten bucks and it was better than dirt weed. And only 10 or 15 for a large amount. Never again. What a effed up world we live in today, much to my regret. It's all about the mney, and the profit. Not about the soul. Damn.
Do want a copy of this when the holidays are done & I can get to the post office , I have all the albums from 69 0n but a couple on cd like this one & Lookin in, & a few others Kim did on his own.
I saw them in 1972 with lang John Baldry and Fleetwood Mac in Elgin Illinois while on leave from a 14 month "I got drafted" inspired vacation in Asia..unbelievable concert and show..just saw Kim Simmonds with the his latest incarnation of Savoy Brown at the Aggie Theater in Fort Collins Colorado just about 18 months ago or so. And that was a great intimate small/medium sized venue concert experience to enjoy a Savoy Brown/Kim Simmonds concert/show..
Kim Simmons and Lonesome Dave... what a pair bluesmen from England. Dave went on to Foghat, as you may remember. I caught Kim at an Air Force Base show in 1977, if I remember correctly. The group played on a flat bed trailer and we were all sitting on the ground in the dark. Great performance, it seemed as though I was the only one who knew the songs as most of my contemporaries weren't into blues at the time. I listened to the Bluesbreakers and of course, Chickenshack; later known as Peter Green's version of Fleetwood Mac. FOR SALE and HELLBOUND TRAIN are a bit bluesier than St Corner Talking... gotta love the artwork on that cover too!
We all listened to the Temptations back then, but if I was going out on the town for blues and beer, I would much rather hear the Al Green/Savoy Brown styling of this one. Oh, but don't even think about it if you don't have B3 keys -- can't get next to that.
Aaron White Different version, different voice. The Reverend Al's voice would not suit this version. It's not about first and last. Music is not a race.
+Doug Smith The black guys and girls can sing, but the white guys are more imaginative, and they DO play better. Listen to Gary Moore. Singing ok (great on midnight blues), but he can play. He whips Albert Collins ass on guitar.
I'm trying to figure out where the CCR/Marvin Gaye debate originated from this video (WTF???? comes to mind) Savoy Brown great blues rock-CCR & Gaye both great artists as well-why always the bs on this site on the him vs them...silly waste of time that could be better spent listening to great music such as this......shhhhhhhhhh with the bickering please.
Thanks Tom :) My sis stole my Street Corner Talking album a few years ago..I bought that new -back in the 70's- well then someone stole it from her shortly after that ha! What goes around comes around.. Sure missed this music there are no equals. I bought the cd a couple of years ago but there are tracks missing. Ah such is life!
ANYTHING fro SB takes me back to a smoke-filled room in Thorpe Hall at Central Michigan University... 1973-75 and NO I DID NOT GRADUATE... too much smoke, not enough study..
This band is and has become very intriguing to me because every song and every version of is a journey threw time and the talent that passed threw this band is amazing . Hugely under appreciated for all the influences that have been placed as well. Dave Walker is my favorite but I love them all , Mr Simmonds is a true gentleman and the best guitarist on the planet ! Since you've been gone with Dave Walker singing is my all time favorite
when I was 15 I was in a blues band with a bunch of old heads and they introduced me to savoy brown and gov't mule and I miss this type of music. groove music. Rest in Peace Dennis Peoples
I first saw Savoy Brown opening up for Status Quo in Liverpool, UK "The Stadium" in 1972!!!! ... I remember the guitarist playing a gold top Les Paul at the time.
Sorry, this sucks. Listen to the original first, then this. Savoy Brown did some great stuff, but ..... there's a reason most bands don't cover the Temptatations.
great but lacking the immediacy of the temptations version, bought this back in 1971 and got kim simmonds to sign it for me in 'dallas, texas. i feel sorry for those that live in muleshoe, hard to get autographs there.
I think this is an interesting rendition of the Temptations version. One of the guys in my band wants to do this version. My opinion is, if you are in a band and can't do the many parts as done in the Temptations version, this is a good version to do. I can do all of the vocal parts of the Temptations song except the real low bass parts so I'm going to try to talk the band into doing the Temptations version. But again, this is a different but doable version. Not my favorite though.
