Rock in Peace - Kim Simmonds. He passed from cancer on December 13, 2022 at 75. As Chris Youlden once wrote: "Everybody's got to be unlucky sometime." I will cherish the good times that i had watching Savoy Brown back in the 1960's and now on youtube. I hope his music lives on forever.
Personnel Savoy Brown Chris Youlden - vocals and piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Kim Simmonds - lead guitar and piano (tracks 2, 3) "Lonesome" Dave Peverett - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar (track 5) Tone Stevens - bass Roger Earl - drums, percussion
I probably borrowed "Raw Sienna" from a school friend in 1971 and before RU-vid hadn't heard it for decades but I've always found myself singing or tapping my feet to the songs.
In my opinion, one of the best albums ever produced by anybody, ever, to this day. First Savoy Brown album I ever bought, and make no mistake, Kim and company have made a lot of great music, but this is my favorite above all others. Still listen to it a lot 50 years later. And Chris Youlden! 'Nuff said!
Wow, 1970 - I was a 12 year old, but my two older brothers, both musicians, filled the house with such memorable albums. With Dad gone, Mom at work... the house was an experience of drums, bass, electric guitars.... even Ron Thompson was there, he grew up there. "Whew" This album, for me too, is iconic. Every single song is so deep, and beautifully written. Love "The Bottom". I bought albums, chronologically, on both sides of this album and was left wanting this sound again. Missed there. Chris Youlden..... holy crap, I'm on my knees, playing every "air instrument"."I got this". Certainly in my top 5 albums of life. Well written Mr. Green - agreed.
@@garyalstrand2681 I totally 100% agree. It certainly affected me the same way. I always hoped they would somehow replicate this album, but how can you improve on perfection? And I like your phrase "top 5 albums of life", will borrow that if ok with you, And Chris Youlden remains in my top 5 vocalists of my life...
@@marvingreen3273 Awesome Marvin, "borrow away" - that album, song by song, relays a photo image of some of the happiest, and most free parts of my life. I played it the other night, sang along with Chris.. taken back, yet again, to 1970. Chris represents, to me, a culture... awakened enough to really sing about it - "Needle and spoon" A lot of fun. That is where my brother was then, back from the army. We survived with great albums, like this one. Cheers Marvin!!
My first Savoy album too, in fact I had it on 8 track! Chris Youlden was also my favorite vocalist for the group. I wore that first album out but I found another original in near mint condition.
April 1970, I turned 14 and started working construction for my Dad’s company. He was in business with his brother who had older boys. They invited me over and turned me on to this Savoy Brown album, the Mothers, live at Fillmore east, and other things that may have been green, leafy and illegal. I cashed my first paycheck and bought Raw Siena (and other shades of brown), the Mothers Absolutely Free, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, and some others. That’s how I started buying music.
My personal favorite Savoy story My senior year in high school 1998 my music teacher on Fridays let each student in class play two minutes of any part of any song, and then we'd discuss it and he would critique it based on composition. He was like Simon Cowell, tough but honest, and VERY strict about cutting that record at exactly two minute marks, not a second more, not even to hear a final high note etc. He sat still and listened to all seven minutes forty five seconds of "Is That So?", then continued to sit and contemplate quietly for about twenty seconds into the next track Before turning it off and asking "who the HELL was that?" Top song of the year award for that class no doubt
That was a great story. the kind you day dreamed when you were in high school and wished how everyone was into the same music that you were. This is one of those rate LPs that you listen to from beginning to end and there isn't a single bad moment. Personally I can think of a very few records I can say that about.
Undoubtedly never had the experience to the needle and spoon. Real truth song here ! I can attest to my remark ! BY far I still listen to the song " Looking In "
Saw them in Hawaii, with this lineup. After their show, they showed up at the club we played in and the bassist played my bass. Then as Fog Hat, they returned to Hawaii, and again came to same club, and we were still gigging there, he remembered my 69 Jazz and played it again. Since then, now living Louisiana, Fog Hat did a show in Baton Rouge. We were right at the stage, and I had a couple of J-Cards from their SB days, which surely startled them, and after the show, for the meet and greet, they signed my J-Cards, and we spoke of an old gentleman they knew, who had been with Howlin Wolf for 14 years, Elmore James, Little Walter, and many others. I had been touring with Henry Gray, throughout a world tour, and several states, and many NOLA Jazz Fests. They were very fond of Henry.
Personnel Savoy Brown Chris Youlden - vocals and piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Kim Simmonds - lead guitar and piano (tracks 2, 3) "Lonesome" Dave Peverett - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar (track 5) Tone Stevens - bass Roger Earl - drums, percussion
I was 13, 14. The “adult” (like, age 19 to 24) hippies I looked up to, they all had this record….1970? …yep, just some kind of jazz soul electric fusion stuff that imo has never been matched and is still ahead of its time. Every song is a hit in my book.The internet is a beautiful thing !
For me, it's a toss-up between "Raw Sienna" and "Blue Matter." The latter was the first SB album I bought in 1968 or 69. After listening to the whole album (I heard "Train to Nowhere" on the radio, that sold me), I went back to the record shop and bought every other SB album available. They're ALL great! The band changed a lot over all these years.
Raw Sienna was a favorite album of ours in the US Coast Guard....1972+....Portsmouth VA. That's all. Though we were on a buoy tender (900 ton), it was a hellbound train!
I totally understand, I was in the Navy towards the end of Vietnam a police action??? I was an air traffic controller on board the USS Coral sea 🌊. I loved this band back in day and still do! Straight up dope. ❤🎉😅
In 1971, two friends and I hitched up to Cape Cod and met some college hippies who let us sleep on their porch. Through the open window, this LP was filtering into my half-awake, pot induced mental state. Never forgot that night and became a lifelong fan.
Old head with no shoes at a free blues festival I was at came up to me while I was digging through a record crate at a vendor said I had to buy this album... I'm forever grateful for that kind wise stranger for turning me onto one of the coolest albums ever he was so right simply amazing glad I bought it
Just listened to this album. It’s a favorite. But as I listened, I realized how well it held up. It’s not dated or old sounding. This is great blues, and it’s still great. What an awesome band!!
The first album I ever bought was Blue Matter back in 1969. I was lucky enough to see them a few months later when they were touring with Jethro Tull. I have fond memories of Chris Youlden strutting around the stage in his top hat and fur coat. 😊
Can't help but get my fix of Savoy Brown's Raw Sienna at least every time I listen to 60's & 70's Rock. Some of the most expressive musicians of their genre, and time. Thank you Kim and Chris and all the other members of the band.
Myself and two friends traveled cross country in no hurry from NH to San Francisco in a VW camper with a week layover in Arkansas due to a blown motor. We listened to a variety of 8 track tapes over and over from a collection of close to 100 tapes. Everything popular from the late 60's to early 70's. Led Zeppelin, the Who etc. etc. etc. When our trip was coming to an end, we voted on the best album and to our surprise all three of us picked Raw Sienna. We wore that tape out...great memories from what I can remember.
"When I was a kid I was listening to this album while my mom was listening to Herb Alpert and Andy Williams." When I was a kid, I was listening to this album and Herb Alpert and Andy Williams and King Crimson and Beethoven and Pharoah Sanders and....
Blessed and cursed being under 18 living near Boston. Wasn't allowed to go to concert's at the Boston Tea Party (Berkeley Street) during the week missed so many iconic bands like the Led Zeppelin, The Who and Jeff Beck Group (who then played the Fillmore East on the following weekend.). Yet I was able to see the likes of the original Fleetwood Mac, Santana local legend, The J. Geils Band and other great performers from Rashad Roland Kirk to Albert King. This is where I first saw Savoy Brown.
Super super great album , I loved it at age 16 and Im 59 years old now, I saw savoy brown at least 8 times always a great time, way way under rated , super great band like war, spirit, the flock, wishbone ash , many others , so many great bands from that era, nothing comes close today
I smiled when reading your list of bands. I've seen all of those bands also. Wishbone ash was another band my friends and I never missed when they were in town. Btw...how's this for a first concert , opening was War , second up Edgar Winters white trash with Rick Derringer and Jerry La Croix and finally the original James Gang. cost...$3.50. Long Beach CA. 1969
@@stevenmccart709 Greetings from the BIG SKY. That's like me and Darden seeing the Doors in Denver back in 68 at the Family Dog while our other 2 Montana teammates from the ski team WAITED in the car outside drinking 3.2 Coors.
Yes a friend introduced me to Savoy Brown in the 60's and I have always loved the old ROCK Music. Finding this and Looking in was the best music I've been able to go back in time to the good old days.
Savoy Brown was in my opinion one of the most influential group for me. I grew up listening to them in 1969 that summer I saw them live at the San Bernadino civic auditorium. I heard them and kept listening. I became a fan and I still like the laid back groovy blues riffs they play. It's just my type of cool laid back style of music that doesn't get old. Fleetwood Mac in the early years was comparable and Blood Rock also. 67 yr old and still laid back ! Living the memories ! In a laid back way !
Just moved into my new home and listening to Raw Sienna has given me incentive to put aside all else and getting my stereo hooked up and running hard and loud ASAP!!!
Gotta love old album rips …. The scratchy popping and anticipation of the song starting ! Albums played soooo much they’re not perfecting sounding anymore ….and that makes them PERFECT !!
I first heard the band in 1971 on KQRS in Golden Valley , MN . I was hooked , and have been a fan going on 52 years . Chris' vocals still move me ,as do the boys in the band . Who played the horns ? The only time on a SB record ?
Personnel Savoy Brown Chris Youlden - vocals and piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Kim Simmonds - lead guitar and piano (tracks 2, 3) "Lonesome" Dave Peverett - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar (track 5) Tone Stevens - bass Roger Earl - drums, percussion
Can't tell you have many times I have seen Savoy Brown, it seemed like they opened for every big act to ever come through Detroit, Sometime they out did the headliners, been a fan ever since 1969, I still go to see them with Kim Simmons version of Savoy Brown, great show every time, they never disappoint.
This album always delivered a unique sound from the musicians and the lead singer. Glad I revisited this music,it has been a long time. Our radio stations rarely played them but once I heard Savoy Brown, I was hooked. Relax and enjoy music that speaks with an original voice, no matter what year it is from. :)
Personnel Savoy Brown Chris Youlden - vocals and piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Kim Simmonds - lead guitar and piano (tracks 2, 3) "Lonesome" Dave Peverett - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar (track 5) Tone Stevens - bass Roger Earl - drums, percussion
I was fortunate that one of my best friend's uncle was a program director and DJ for our local FM radio station. After a visit to the station in I believe 1971 he gifted me the entire Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac catalogs (Green and Kermin , even Bob Welch. Not the abomination afterwords) greatest gift for a high school kid ever. This particular record stood out by far. There is not a single bad moment on the entire disc.
To all the heads and juicers who wonder where these 47 years went so fast - I don't know either but isn't it fine to have had this to listen to for the duration.
Not too many of us are still alive, yet the dysfunctional love family we started is something that I am connected to for all eternity.....with or without anything added.....I still connect in dreams.
@@randyborst7517 yeah, there's still great blues oriented music being produced, but you have to do some digging to find it. Alot of kids in local bands are playing blues classics. Some of the best up and coming bands are playing in local pubs.
Chris Youlden was great, but I have give it to Lonesome Dave Peverett and Dave Walker, their vocals on subsequent albums after Chris left are awesome. They both were great with Savoy Brown. That trio of lead singers were definitely bonafide blues/rock legendary vocalists. The revolving door of lead vocalists and players after Walker left definitely hurt Savoy Browns' rise to stardom. But, I still listen to those three vocalists and their SB albums almost daily !!!!! Side note....Kim is still rockin' into his 70's, WOW !!!!!!
well its a clear fact this is their finest album. so much variance packed in. so much energy. even a little orchestration midst of master hare. Chris Youlden got that voice you just wanna hear more of, especially on stay while the night is young. hey that makes this a masterpiece. yow
Savoy Brown Chris Youlden - vocals and piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Kim Simmonds - lead guitar and piano (tracks 2, 3) "Lonesome" Dave Peverett - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar (track 5) Tone Stevens - bass Roger Earl - drums, percussion Technical Kim Simmonds, Chris Youlden - producers, arrangements Terry Noonan - bass and string arrangements Paul Tregurtha - engineer Malcolm Addey - mixing engineer Ignatz - artwork
I had only one Savoy Brown LP growing up as a kid in the 70’s; “Street Corner Talking”. I played it a lot and used to stare at the cover with all the little drawings. I just recently picked up this one and “Looking In” LP. I had no idea how good their other records were. “Raw Sienna” is great. The golden era of true rock n roll and musicianship. As I get older the classic rock records of the 70’s have become like gold to me. Plus the sound quality and warmth these records possess. There’s nothing else like it.
Chris Youlden, in his days with Savoy Brown, was the only singer who could scream whispering. Beautiful album, perhaps the best of this fantastic band.
Reid's 'River' album is a monster! There is footage of him at Glastonbury in '71 with David Lindley on Guitar and Mike Giles on drums that's well worth investigating!
Savoy Brown has aged like a fine wine. I was lucky to get to see tgem live a few times in the Sixties. They rolled along like a powerful locomotive . Love tgese guys.
Thanx for posting. I had this album during my whole hippie-dom. It's still as good as it gets. Chris Youlden...short lived, massive vocalist and front man.
The album is a masterpiece . Some say don captain beef heart was the finest representation of blues vocals aside from the original masters of the blues sound. However Chris Youlden on this album , getting to the point and raw sienna demonstrate another exists and he was in this unusual blues band with a sensational blues guitarist that played a wicked Flying V. I have yet to see any video archive if this band and it is perhaps the rarest of rock bands material that will somehow never be found. The band has a live side album where they played Detroit . A blockbuster live performance on par with humble pies Fillmore album.Only one side however and as I recall Dave if fights fame may have been in on that album. In any event the savoy brown is the most eerie of all blues rock bands of the British Invasion . Tolling bells, give me a Penney and mr die child can not be beaten . What’s more the guitar licks rip your scalp off from time to time . No... it’s never going to happen again. This was it .The finest blues representation band in history .Nobody comes close.
I never missed them when they were in town and they were always great , and I agree Youlden was an enormous part of the band. Thier other records although also good but just not quite the same. Raw Sienna is one of my all time favorites , even after a lifetime in and around the industry.
You are fortunate to have seen SB with Chris . I agree some of the albums without Chris still maintained SB former greatness . A number with another vocal has Pig Tail wang dang doodle . Chicken Shack vocalist I recall . Hell bound train fair . Looking In is a classic . Yet nothing beats Chris with savoy .
1972 this was my favorite band. Early Savoy brown and Fleetwood mac. Until ruined by arena rock. First couple Jethro tull albums as well. I had a friend who's uncle was a d.j. and I scored the first three Savoy and Fleetwood records and they remained at the front of my record collection for a very long time. I arranged my records on how often I played them not alphabetically or by genre or some other sensible thing
Terry from Aqua dry turned me on to this with a bunch of other songs on, in that day, a mix cd. Once I heard these songs on here, my hair stood up. Damn man. Really solid tunes
Seattle. Paramount Theater. Spring 1972. Long John Baldry, Savoy Brown, and Fleetwood Mac (before Stevie and Christie). $3.50!!! Three dollars and fifty cents! One of the best concerts and memories ever!
God knows how I got hold of the album in 1970:I loved it.I exchanged it for my jacket or something. Saw them live too: I had never , ever seen a "pop group"that could actually deliver the goods on stage.Thanks for posting. 40 years later, they sound even better than then.
walter ceuppens The local underground FM radio station used to put Savoy Brown and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers in heavy rotation back in the late 60's and early 70's. I miss those days. I'll have to admit that Blind Faith, Kinks, Mott the Hoople and The Who all delivered the goods on stage. When I can scrape up the cash, I plan to get the Savoy Brown Collection compilation off itunes. My ipod won't be complete without them.
God yes ! They always delivered live . My favorite in high school also (class of 74) when ever I played Raw Sienna for someone unfamiliar they loved it
is that so ,, a fucken masterpiece , get down on your hands and knees and believe music like this does exist ,, a goddamn joy of the virtues,, what a song ,, listen to it when you've had a fuck or won 10 dollars ,or you a wearing a smile on your face for whatever reason,,.. dig it ,.
I think is one of the top 10 Rock LP's of all time too! I listen it again and again, without boredom, since more 25 years (I have 45! age of this album). Gautama
The incarnation of this band with Chris Youlden, Roger Earl, Tone Stevens, Lonesome Dave, Kim Smmonds and earlier with Bob Hall on piano was ONE OF THE BEST BLUES BANDS EVER! Saw them many times in the New York area during this time and they always put on a great show. Chris is\was the finest white male blues singer of this era. Too bad Kim Simmons' dad was so difficult to work with or this group would've stayed together in this incarnation long enough to really get the recognition they deserved. SB should be in the RARHOF, but were never the same band long enough to get recognized. Needle and Spoon is a classic - with the current heroin epidemic going around, it's more relevant today than ever.
+1blastman This album was a youtube-era discovery for me when I went looking into the origins of Foghat. Fell in love with it immediately. It's brilliant from start to finish. You are so right, this particular line up had tremendous potential. If they had stuck around five or more years they probably would have been huge. There seems to be no video footage of this incarnation of the band, which is a shame.
+Simon Higgins The closest I've seen to a video of the band is labeled "Savoy Brown 1969@Fillmore East", the video has "I'm Tired" dubbed over the live film, and you get a lot of Kim Simmons and a bit of Chris Youlden's shadow in the clip. If I see anything else I will come back here and let you know. Rock on.....
Savoy Still Goin! Saw them last year so what inter change switch members. Beatles suck. Rock on SB the best blues rock only close Jimi and S Ray Vaughn.
Harry Simmons was a complete pain in the ass by all accounts. He was certainly the main reason for the constant turnover of members. He was interested in the money, that was it!
The original band was almost like a local band in Detroit during that time. So damn good. Chris and everyone else had their roll. Isn't that what makes a great Band.
50 years ago I bought this album. Probably in Boston, or Newport RI. I was in the Navy and finding a different music than what I had been exposed to. Mostly pop of course and R&B. I picked up Lookin' In because of this album and I have them through Hellbound Train. Then I moved to Texas, went back to school and .....life followed.
What your forgetting is that there are doctors, Lawyers, and manny professionals that use all kinds of drugs. That fact alone does not make losers or winners, it just makes them drug users. I feel like it is 1965 and I'm trying to explain drugs to my parents. Time to grow-up and live in the real world!
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