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Savoy Brown CD Reviews, New Releases, Roots Music Report, and More! Order Today Click Here! Four Print Issues Per Year DOWNLOAD 12 SONGS KIM SIMMONDS Savoy Brown CD Reviews, New Releases, Roots Music Report, and more! Order Today Click Here! Four Print Issues Per Year Every January, April, July, and October get the Best In Blues delivered right t0 you door! Artist Features, CD, DVD Reviews & Columns. Award-winning Journalism and Photography! Order Today Click Here! BLUES MUSIC ONLINE August 17, 2020 - Issue 17 Table Of Contents 06 - KIM SIMMONDS & SAVOY BROWN 55 Years And Going Strong By Art Tipaldi 16 - SEVEN CD REVIEWS Various Writers 27 - BMM CD SAMPLER Download 12 28 - ROOTS MUSIC REPORT Week Of August 8, 2020 COVER PHOTOGRAPHY © DEB LYONS Read The News Click Here! All Blues, All The Time, AND It's FREE! Get Your Paper Here! Read the REAL NEWS you care about: Blues Music News! FEATURING: - Music News - Breaking News - CD Reviews - Music Store Specials - Video Releases - Festivals - Artists Interviews - Blues History - New Music Coming - Artist Profiles - Merchandise - Music Business Updates SAVOY BROWN 55 Years And Going Strong By Art Tipaldi PHOTOGRAPHY © JUAN JUNCO The British Blues Invasion came in two Blues Music Online -- Who were some of distinct waves. The first wave featured the American blues artists you first heard? artists like the Rolling Stones, John What spoke to you about each? Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, the Animals, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and Kim Simmonds – I first heard Little others. The second wave quickly followed Richard, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, and by expanding their love of Chicago blues Bill Haley. They were just playing three- into modernistic blues-rock. Led Zeppelin, chord rock (blues) with a new energy at Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, and others the time. The drummer on a lot of those followed in the footsteps of their idols. records was a Earl Palmer and since then As many of those iconic bands have I’ve always had a kinship with drumming come and gone, one has remained and, and drummers in my band. continues to record and tour. Savoy Brown From there I narrowed my focus was founded by guitarist Kim Simmonds when I heard the Chicago blues artists in the late 60s with the same mission as Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and Jimmy the Rolling Stones, to further his love of Reed. Muddy Waters because of his voice Chicago blues. After 55 years of relentless and those great Willie Dixon songs. touring and 41 records, Simmonds current Howling Wolf because he brought an record, Ain’t Done Yet, mines the same element of danger to music. Jimmy Reed musical landscape that fans of Savoy because of the great songs, loose delivery Brown have come to expect. and great drums. Matt Murphy, Freddie We recently sat with Kim and talked King, and many lesser lights were my with him about the blues in the U.K., his favorite guitar players. Freddie had one love of traditional blues, the early days of note passion and Matt had sophistication. Savoy Brown, and this new record. Blues Music Online -- Who were some Blues Music Online -- Why do you think of the early British blues artists you were American blues became so popular in the drawn to? U.K. in the 1950s? Kim Simmonds – Eric Clapton was the Kim Simmonds – It probably started in leading light on the British blues scene. the early 1950s with Josh White, the great I watched him with in the Yardbirds U.S. blues acoustic artist who lived in the and loved the band’s instrumental “Got U.K. for a few years. I’m a big fan of his. To Hurry.” Then I watched his first A few British folk artists followed him performances and many after with John and that eventually led to the electric blues Mayall. I followed the band around the surge in the 1960s. American blues back London gig scene. I had never seen such a then was a new, appealing and different great musician live before. art form that was great music to play and Later, Peter Green had a similar improvise on guitar with. effect on me, and I was very sad when he PHOTOGRAPHY © JUAN JUNCO lost his way in the 1970s. Both guitarists on television or saw them on package have left an indelible impression on my shows. Again, on the U.K. side when guitar playing. I was old enough I’d go and watch, I’d see Johnny Kidd and the Pirates to watch Blues Music Online -- How did early Mick Green play. British blues remain consistent with the Finally I discovered Chicago blues American blues tradition? and that transformed my life. Earl Hooker, Freddie King, Matt Murphy, Enis Lowery Kim Simmonds – The British bands (Larry Dale) all influenced me. And I covered a lot of the songs that had been introduced a more jazzy element in my recently released in America so there blues playing via Billy Butler, one of my was a consistency in the songs we were all time favorites. all playing on either side of the Atlantic. I picked up teach yourself guitar The great Willie Dixon songs knitted it books and taught myself the basics from all together. “Got My Mojo Working” and that. I memorized every note on the songs such as that. fretboard and copied solos from records. Later, from another book, I learned the Blues Music Online -- How did the early basics of reading music. British blues expand on those American blues traditions. Blues Music Online -- What was the difference between first generation blues Kim Simmonds – By adding a different band like John Mayall and those that kind of energy and tone to the mix...a followed like Cream or Fleetwood Mac. European slant on how to play the blues. The guitar tones via the new Marshall Kim Simmonds – The first generation amplifiers really changed how people British blues bands had a folk influenced wanted to hear blues guitar. The sound sound. When Eric Clapton joined John went from a treble cutting sound to a Mayall, the music became much heavier warm and rich sensual tone. and urban sounding via the guitar tones. The lightness from the earlier folk and Blues Music Online -- Growing up, jazz approach disappeared and the classic who were your guitar heroes? Without American Chicago focus took over. YouTube how did you learn the guitar? Records and watching guitarists live. Blues Music Online -- What led to the formation of Savoy Brown in 1966. Kim Simmonds – When I was very young, I liked the American rock ‘n’ roll Kim Simmonds – My love of blues music, guitarists from the 1950s. Franny Beecher Chicago blues music in particular. And with Bill Haley and James Burton with the Muddy Waters band, who I wanted to Ricky Nelson. On the English scene, I copy. I also knew the style of guitar I was liked the guitarist with Vince Taylor and playing would be the sound of the future, Joe Brown’s playing when I watched them and I wanted to be a part of the future and make a name for myself. many albums. I don’t allow myself to think like that. I had and have a strong work ethic Blues Music Online -- As a main blues that, along with the other great musicians band in the second wave of British blues, that have been in the band, helped push what was the band’s mission when it it along. I keep a mental attitude that I formed? could be pumping gas tomorrow and that keeps me moving forward. It’s probably Kim Simmonds – To be a U.K. version also something to do with one’s DNA. of the Muddy Waters band and The Paul I’m simply driven and have been from an Butterfield Band. I wanted to bring the early age. new heavier blues sound that was making waves in the USA to the British public. I wanted to do my bit in bringing to light Blues Music Online -- During those years the Chicago blues music form that was and records, how much of what you play largely unknown in Britain. or record relies on blues traditions and how much of your music looks to move Blues Music Online -- Explain how that the genre forward? constant touring helped the band cement its place on the scene. And why that Kim Simmonds – Initially the music was touring was essential to staying fresh and all about blues tradition, and I was a blues original. purist albeit an electric urban blues purist. Very quickly, in the 1960s, it was apparent Kim Simmonds – Touring is the lifeblood that we needed to write our own songs, of any band. Financially and artistically. which I did along with the great singer The money enables you to not do any song writer I had in the band at the time, other job and thus focus on the music. Chris Youlden. Nowadays, my primary The playing every night is what makes thought is to move the genre forward with you better as a musician. You get very, the songs and let my guitar playing keep very tired on the road, but when you push it grounded in the tradition of the Chicago through that, you find on the other side blues that I grew up with. something in your playing that didn’t exist before. Playing live for me is like being in Blues Music Online -- If every record a laboratory, you can experiment to your tells a story, what is the story that Ain’t heart’s content. I don’t like live music that Done Yet tells. isn’t spontaneous. Kim Simmonds – The lyrics are Blues Music Online -- With 55 years and autobiographical.
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