Title - Blues All Around
Artist - Savoy Brown
Quarto Valley Records announces the upcoming release of Blues All Around, the new album from legendary British Blues Rock band Savoy Brown on February 17th, 2023.
Sadly, shortly after the new album was completed, Savoy Brown founder, guitarist/ singer/ songwriter Kim Simmonds lost his hard-fought battle with cancer on December 13th, 2022, just a week after turning 75.
While recuperating from his initial cancer treatments, Simmonds had begun work on the new album that was to become Blues All Around.
Blues All Around was tracked in layers, piece by piece, and not in the live-in-the-studio manner Savoy Brown has always used. The change doesn’t affect the vibes and grooves at all and you’d never know if you weren’t told. “Here’s how it went,” Simmonds explains. “My tracks, guitar, vocal, etc were laid down first. Pat and Garnet then added
bass, drums, and percussion and the whole process worked beautifully. They clinched the deal using my tracks as a guide. Brilliant work. They’re heaven sent. The concept wasn’t my brainchild. Studio owner and engineer Ron Keck suggested the approach due to my failing health to make things easier, and I’m forever grateful.”
1. Falling Through
2. Black Heart
3. Going Down South
4. Gypsy Healer
5. Blues All Around
6. Texas Love
7. Winning Hand
8. Hurting Spell
9. Can’t Go Back To My Hometown
10. California Days Gone By
11. My Baby
12. Falling Through the Cracks
This incredible, and sadly final release by the late Savoy Brown founding father Kim Simmonds, opens on the short, but sweet intro Falling Through and then we get the low slung blues of Black Heart and the harmonica-driven Going Down South, the aching blues yearn of the brilliant Gypsy Healer, and then comes the free flowing guitar blues-rock of the titular Blues All Around and the rumbling Texas Love.
On an album where the British blues/rock legends still sound vital and alive, they continue onward with the mid-tempo guitar balladry of Winning Hand and the foot-tapper Hurting Spell and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the suave blues brought forth within Can’t Go Back To My Hometown, the dirty grind of California Days Gone By, the album rounding out in the melodically rhythmic My Baby, closing on the organically-sculptured, slow roll of Falling Through the Cracks.
Personnel:
Savoy Brown: band/orchestra; Kim Simmonds: guitar; Pat DeSalvo: bass; Garnett Grimm: drums.
Official Purchase Link
www.SavoyBrown.com
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