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Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown – Kim has to be the most overlooked blues rock player to come out of the 70s. I didn’t know about this album today but like all of Savoy Brown’s albums and Kim’s solo releases – top rate blues guitar start to finish.
Kim died in December 2022, he worked on the final Savoy Brown album, Blues All Around, until sometime in November 2022 when he became so weak due to cancer that he had to stop. The vocals in some of the songs – I could tell that he was getting weak but his wife said that he was determined to do what he could for his fans.
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Cheers Keith, I didn’t know about that acoustic album, will check it out.
But he came out of the late Sixties, not the Seventies. I know that for a fact because I saw Savoy Brown in London several times in the late Sixties and early Seventies in clubs and at festivals all over the UK. Happy days.
They were a firm favorite of the “teenage me” and my buddies and we would definitely tend to follow them around the scene. If he occasionally hit a bum note he had this uncanny knack of bending it so it sounded perfect! Kim was always an exceptional musician, I miss him.
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Cheers Keith, I didn’t know about that acoustic album, will check it out.
But he came out of the late Sixties, not the Seventies. I know that for a fact because I saw Savoy Brown in London several times in the late Sixties and early Seventies in clubs and at festivals all over the UK. Happy days.
They were a firm favorite of the “teenage me” and my buddies and we would definitely tend to follow them around the scene. If he occasionally hit a bum note he had this uncanny knack of bending it so it sounded perfect! Kim was always an exceptional musician, I miss him.
Hey Mark
Thanks for catching that typo – I knew that he founded Savoy Brown in 1965 but for some reason I punched in 70sI was fortunate to see Savoy Brown 3 times in recent years and Kim never disappointed. Like you said, an occasional sour note, like the time that he’d played slide on a tune and forgot to go back to standard tuning when he started the next song.
He was one of those musicians that just kept writing very prolific material right up to the end.Happy New Year Mark. Here’s hoping for a blessed and prosperous new year for all of us
Keith
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Love the tuning story. I accidentally inflicted that on a friend. He had a gig a few nights after I had put his National in open D or G, one or the other. He got up to play it assuming it was in standard tuning.
There was some confusion on stage before he figured it out and retuned. I was in the audience, whoops. Good etiquette would have been to put it back the way I found it. So I learned my lesson, and he was very nice about the whole thing.
Happy New Year!
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Very enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.
JH
Between his career as the front man of Savoy Brown and his solo releases, Kim released around 50 albums and there are only a couple that I would be hesitant to recommend.
That’s a pretty good track record……..
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