Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna
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Free Music Review: "When I Was A Young Boy" - I loved this album then and now!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've always loved music and back in high school there seemed to be so many different influences swirling around. I have to admit, the 60's was a very interesting time to witness. Everything was changing from music to people walking on the moon! I remember being hooked on this Savoy Brown album the very first time I heard it. I was over at a friend's house who always had a knack for having the "coolest" records of anyone I knew. This was the same guy who invited me to Woodstock (but I remember him saying it was an "Art Festival" with some bands and who am I kidding, my parents would never have allowed me to go to New York for 3 days. So now I wear the scar forever.) My buddy put on Savoy Brown one day and I was in a trance staring at the cover of the record thinking how cool it looked. The artwork was reminiscent of Peter Max who was the artist defining the whole world in the sixties! Blues, jazz and rock filled the grooves of this new record and each song seemed to have a hook that just made your head bob up and down and your foot to tap along. Obviously my experience with this recording colors my review so I will try to add a more objective slant for those unfamiliar with this ever changing band. I believe this to be the best of Savoy Brown's efforts. While the orchestration may date some of the material, the solid melodies and the raw guitar should win over anyone who likes blues-rock. Just try some of the samples and see if your head dosen't start bobbing up and down. Go ahead, I dare you. - CiaoFree Music Review: old tunes...
Hit: 5 Stars
Have been a fan of the band Savoy Brown since the 60s. Dates me! This album brings back old, good tunes and memories too. Nice touch on the blues.Free Music Review: 60's English Band
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great album.I own an original vinyl of this bought brand new.The songs are a great mixture of blues and ballads,guitars and brass which was popular in the 60'sSongs also carry a message and a few deal with drug use.Kim Simmonds and Lonesome Dave went on later to form the band Foghat.Free Music Review: Good, But Could Be Better
Hit: 4 Stars
If you are a Savoy Brown fan, this early configuration of the group probably suits you. The English version of Blues discovered so famously in the 60' and 70's. However, the quality of the recording mix is somewhat lacking. There are available remastered CD's with dual album titles from this group that cover this early and blues oriented Savoy Brown that is better to listen to and more adept for listening, recording and dubbing. Your money is better spent there than with these sub par vinyl copies.Free Music Review: Oh yeah, I feel all right with my Youlden and Simmonds!
Hit: 5 Stars
This 1970 album represents one of the greatest triumphs in British blues history. And by triumph, I mean musical as opposed to commercial.
When this album was recorded, Savoy Brown had just finished campaigning in the States, in support of the moderately successful 'A Step Further' (# 71 on Billboard's Top 200). Their previous albums were essentially a mix of standards and various band member's compositions. However, 'Raw Sienna' features only the blues scripture of Simmonds and Youlden. And though it was hoped all prior success would be eclipsed - it was not.
For despite the opportunity to expand artistically, Youlden was not happy with the situation, feeling that the band had peaked. So, this would be his final hurrah with Savoy Brown, and arguably his greatest artistic achievement. Youlden's subsequent work with the likes of Danny Kirwan (i.e. 'You're Just a Little Cog In a Big Wheel'), though excellent, also lacked any big commercial success.
Meanwhile, Simmonds was competing with the likes of Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, along with all the other axe slingers of the day, who were in fierce competition for the dollars of guitar mad music fans. And Kim certainly delivers the goods here, while expanding upon his artistic depth and vision, by featuring an array of bravura styles and monumental tones. One listen to 'Raw Sienna' and you'll agree that Simmonds stands in peerage among Britain's elite - Marvin, Green, Clapton, Beck, Townshend, Page, Blackmore, Frampton, Richards, Taylor, and Moore, to name a few.
The prime cuts start with 'A Hard Way To Go', with Youlden's gritty vocals and Simmonds jazzy fretwork.
Next, 'That Same Feelin' starts with a horn intro supplemented by Simmonds strong riffing. Youlden careens about seemingly crazed, to be followed by Simmonds hard edged yanking over a haunting pedaled piano tone. Then Youlden scats in dementia, until Simmonds mows everyone down with shards of massive steely tones.
'Master Hare' is one of Simmonds greatest fret board achievements. With its angular scalar runs and psychedelic tones, it doesn't sound at all dated, but rather illustrates the work of a virtuoso.
The drug tome 'Needle and Spoon' comes across like an epitaph, as Youlden practically begs to be committed into the Betty Ford Clinic. And all the while, Simmonds' call-and-response fretwork is astounding, like all very Otis Rush with fish 'n chips. This tune should've been rolled out for that whole "Just Say No To Drugs" campaign. No wait, if that'd happened the whole country would still be strung out. I mean, Savoy Brown makes it all sound very cool, so pass me those works!
Say, didn't Diamond Dave cut 'A Little More Wine' for the Vegas crowd? I'm not sure. Although, you'd think that any association whatsoever with this album would help boost Roth's ailing career, all I think it did was increase this album's sales. You know, because people want to hear how it's really done. (Yes Dave, I do want fries with that. And no, I will not apologize to Eddie for you.)
On 'I'm Cryin', Youlden elicits in the listener, thoughts of deep depression and ultimately suicide. Only Simmonds' upbeat jangling finger gymnastics can get one's karma back in focus. Thanks Kim, I'll ditch the Prozac and take sixteen more bars of that funky music, white boy.
The next tune can be put on when you're with that bit'o'honey, because 'Stay While The Night Is Young' will relay your intent, while leaving nothing left open to interpretation. Get down Brown! (Ac'shully Diamond Dave covered this one, so hopefully no young love is getting spoiled out there.)
The track 'Is That So' features Simmonds jazzing it up ala T-Bone Walker, while 'When I was A Young Boy' allows us to hear Youlden at his most pensive and tender.
Now, buy this thing already and help Kim Simmonds in his declining years. Right!
Oh yeah, go see Savoy Brown soon at a concert hall near you!