A Gem, Indeed!! This band is phenomenal! Must do Hellbound Train!! It is a complete vibe! Musicianship at it's finest! That's a back yard, cigar, whiskey, hammock song for Jay!!
This entire album is called street corner talking and it is an absolute gem and you can grab any song of that album to jam to for sure one of my absolute favorite albums because I don’t have to work with the skip button
Thanks. What a journey down memory lane. I was a teenager when they hit the scene in the 60's and still have their album,Hellbound Train(1972). They actually were active until 2022 when the founding member,Kim Simmonds,passed away. There's a lot of info about them on Wikipedia. Tell Mama is their most recognizable song. They were a blues band,so their fans fit a specific niche. Either you liked them or you didn't. They toured for nearly 60 years,so there you go.
Wow! Savoy Brown! One of my very favorite bands from my college days! Every other dorm room I went by would have this song playing. This is the album that came out after Lonesome Dave and the others left to form Foghat. Kim Simmonds is the guitarist and Savoy Brown was his band. He passed away about a year ago but kept playing and recording until the end. I actually got to see him a couple of times after I moved to Maine a few years back, he still knew how to rock out! Peace! (My recommendation for another song would be "Leaving Again", lots of guitar and Lonesome Dave is singing on it. Foghat covered it on their first album, a harder rock version)
I was hoping you would get to Savoy Brown. Tell Mama is a great one to start with and I'm glad you did the album track and not the cut down radio version. There were a lot of personnel changes over the years. A Hard Way to Go, Street Corner Talking and Wang Dang Doodle are good ones to follow up with. Lots of great stuff. Hellhound Train is my favorite and will blow your minds. By the way, the accent on Savoy is slightly on the Sa and not the voy. Kim Simmonds kept the band going until recently. He passed last December just after turning 75.
About time someone did a reaction to Savoy Brown, I have been wondering why, thought maybe people were getting copyright strikes. You have a group here with a deep library of great songs.
Jay/Amber if those guitars sound familiar, they are the same guys who left Savoy Brown to form Foghat. How about a reaction to Foghat's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" live version . Thanks.😎
My friend and I saw Savoy Brown together with the Doobie Brothers freshman year of high school '72 …Yes ! I can definitely hear that Foghat connection. Got that Slow Ride riff in there !Great Pick guys 🎸🎧🎶🫶
Oh! Boy! I have been pushing them for a bit. Good rabbit hole. Any song is great! Very diverse blues based with many incarnations. Kim Simmonds leads the band. One of my fav guitar players.Thanks! I recommend an earlier incarnation with the album Raw Sienna lotsa guitar and lotsa HORNS. I believe this incarnation became Foghat after Kim Simmonds moved to another sound. Savoy always has plenty of good guitar. This song is a bit more country based than most.
We just recently lost the great Kim Simmonds, guitarist and founding member that was the only member to play in all the different versions of this band. A couple members from Savoy Brown left to form Foghat. My favorite album of theirs was Jack The Toad, but the only one I own now is Hellbound Train. Good choice, but there's a lot of good Savoy Brown out there, if you want some more.
@@jameskirschling7887 When those guys left most people thought it was the end of SB. But Kim Simmonds didn't want it to end so he went to work. He raided the band Chicken Shack, recruiting their rhythm section & keyboardist Paul Raymond. He then found a great singer, Dave Walker, playing in London pubs & signed him up. This version of the band put out 2 of the groups best selling albums, Street Corner Talking and Hellbound Train.
This is a great song. The ultimate Savoy Brown recording is their version of Louisiana Blues. It's sixties British Blues guitar jamming at it's finest!
The Band Started off in England back in the 60's but eventually moved to the US. Great band, great music. the next song to react to should be "Hellbound Train".
This was and is a classic by Etta James and written mainly by blues singer Clarence Carter. He origally did the song first, but it was called "Tell Daddy"
RIP Kim Simmonds 12/13/22 Love this Brit Blues band. Can't go wrong with the recommendations I've seen, including the one for Lee Michael's "Do You Know What I Mean". Foghat, with guitarist Peverett and drummer Earl had more commercial success, but Savoy Brown was grittier. Love it, good choice
I saw them with their original lineup in the late 60's. They had a cult following in Maine where I lived. Their live album Blue Matter was a big hit but only in the "cult". The core of Savoy formed Foghat and this band was the second iteration of SB. Guitarist Kim Simmons was their heart. There is a video of them doing this live and Kim absolutely shreds on slide. An unsung guitar god
Back in college, there were two camps re: which was the best Brit blues band at that time: Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac vs. Savoy Brown. I was a Savoy Brown-er but have since switched to FM. Still though this is one hot tune. Glad you are going down this rabbit hole. Kim Simmons is still performing. "Poor Girl" or "Looking In" are good follow-up tunes. Glad you dug it. ❤❤❤
Kim Simmonds passed away in December of last year. Saw them play just before Covid hit, they were down to a very tight 3 piece band by then but were still cranking out some great albums.
savoy brown's history went back decades. They were a passionate but consistently unsettled blues rock band who changed lead singers like the rest of us change our socks. My favorite song "I've Had Enough Of Getting Shot in the Head".
I FIRST SAW SAVOY BROWN IN DECEMBER 1968---FLEETWOOD MAC WITH PETER GREEN AND JEREMY SPENSER--WARMED THEM UP. THEIR GREATEST LP/ALBUM IS "BLUE MATTER". MY SAVOY BROWN PLAYLIST IS FIRST CLASS.
Wonderfully wide catalogue of music that Kim (RIP) led. Love this band in all its forms. For a different slow blues vibe, please review 'Love me please' from the album Lion's Share. N.B. They had some great album artwork.
I love Kim Simmonds guitar work. If I could not come back as Stevie Ray Vaughn, I would certainly settle for Kim. There are a number of Savoy albums. My favorites are "Street Corner Talking" and "Looking In". Rock On !
Lonesome Dave Peverette (Guitarist/singer) and Roger Earl (Drummer) left Savoy Brown in 1971 and formed Foghat! Two great bands. Other songs are: Hellbound Train - All I can DO - Street Corner Talking - Wang Dang Doodle - Let it Rock - Poor Girl - Lost and Lonely Child - I Can't get Next to You (Their version). Enjoy this rabbit hole of great music...
One of my all time favorite bands. When I was a teenager my band tried to play several of their songs. I only hope we did them some justice. The great Kim Simmonds (RIP) was a blues legend. I love that you've gotten to them. Just pick any other song from this album for a treat. Wang Dang Doodle is a great choice.
If you all loved this, certainly understandable, check out Potliquor and their great album from 1973 (my Sr year of HS) titled Louisiana Rock & Roll. It’s southern, bluesy, rocky, swampy etc etc and I have no doubt you two will love it. Every song is great just like every song on this album along with Hellbound Train, another great one by Savoy Brown. Savoy Brown morphed into Foghat which I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t know. Great reaction! Love your channel and have for a few years now.
"Inside Looking Out" is a great early Savoy Brown album, probably from 1970 or 71. An old friend went to a Savoy Brown concert about 10 years ago and got a "live" recording of that concert and got them to autograph it for me, telling them I was s BIG Savoy Brown fan back in our high school days in the early 70s.
They DO have that guitar all the time…Kim Simmonds (guitar) is the founder and guitarist and main songwriter here. Vocals are courtesy of Dave Walker, later briefly lead singer for Fleetwood Mac and (even more briefly) Black Sabbath. Another Fleetwood Mac connection is keyboardist Paul Raymond, who had been in Chicken Shack with Christine Perfect (not yet McVie back then). I don't know if the fact that Paul and Christine were former bandmates is why the two bands toured together in 1972, but I know that when Fleetwood Mac had to cut the tour short (guitarist Danny Kirwan got himself fired), they hired Dave away, because their manager was tired of losing guitarists and thought the band needed reorganize behind a big sexy lead singer…an Ozzy, an Ian Gillan, a Robert Plant, a Roger Daltrey. This was of course a ridiculous idea for *Fleetwood Mac* , which is why Dave was gone after one album there. (Still better than "Ozzy quit, help us, Dave!"/"Ozzy's back, sorry Dave", as happened to Walker down the road.) This album was a heck of a comeback for Simmonds, considering that he had just had the ENTIRE BAND quit on him the year before. On the previous album, Simmonds shared guitar and writing duties with Lonesome Dave Peverett, but Dave decided to go out on his own, took the rhythm section (bassist Tone Stevens, drummer Roger Earl) with him and went and formed Foghat. Damn good rebound by Kim here.
Kim lost his rhythm section & 2nd guitar to Foghat so he promptly raided Chicken Shack for their rhythm section and guitarist/keyboardist Raymond. He then discovered Dave Walker singing in London pubs and had an all new band! There was very little animosity between Kim & the 3 who left to form Foghat. They simply wanted to try a more hard rock blues style and Kim wanted to stay with a more traditional or jazzy blues sound.
You guys do a great job finding old rock snd you always love it. Just imagine how fun it was to experience all this new when it came out. I was 10 years old in 1966 heard it all from Beatles to Pink Floyd and everything in between 👍
If you liked this, you need to listen to "Street Corner Talking," Wang Dang Doodle, and I CAN'T GET NEXT TO YOU, all from the Street. Corner Talking Album. Savory Brown later morphed into Fog Hat.
Nothing but the Blues. Please check out Johnny Winter A few suggestions would be Johnny Guitar from Hey Where's Your Brother, Don't Take Advantage Of Me from Guitar Slinger, Rock Me Baby from Still Alive And Well.. Johnny is one of the greatest Blues/Rock Guitarists of all time.
You can hear Kim Simmonds' (slide guitarist for this one/guy who kept the band together through the years) genius as early as the "Shake Down" album - check out SB's version of "Superstitious" or "Shake 'Em On Down" from that! The band was at its height with Chris Youlden as the vocalist; suggest checking out "I'm Tired" or "I'm Crying" from that era - magical :)
Kim Simmonds….he was at the El Mocombo in Toronto one night back in the late 70’s…and was playing to about 20 people….I felt so bad…because damn…he was fire on the lead..
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