GUITAR & VOCALS: Kim
Simmonds
DRUMS: Dennis Cotton
GUITAR & VOCALS: David Malachowski
BASS: Gerry Sorrentino
WEBSITES:
Savoy
Brown |
HITS:
1969 I'm Tired
1971 Tell Mama
1981 Run To Me
2 Top 40 Albums |
2005
Legendary....a blues/rock institution....true
innovators....These are just a few of the ways SAVOY BROWN has been described
over the past thirty years by music critics and fans.
One of the earliest of British blues bands, SAVOY BROWN (with founder
guitarist and longtime member Kim Simmonds at the helm) helped launch
the UK blues/rock movement that paved the way for such acts as Led Zeppelin.
The band recorded their first singles for Mike
Vernon's Purdah label in 1966 and quickly followed up with the landmark
album Shakedown. Singer Chris Youlden joined the band in 1968 and many
classic records appeared with songs such as "I'm Tired" and "Louisiana Blues" becoming
radio staples. Blues/rock and boogie music always was the band's calling
card and they captured, forever, the spirit of the music on the live
side of A Step Further ( 1969) with a twenty minute boogie "The
Savoy Brown Boogie" dedicated to fans in Detroit.
By 1971, Youlden had departed on a solo career and band members Dave
Peverett, Roger Earle and Tony Stevens had left to form their own group
Foghat.
Simmonds rebuilt the band using former members
of the blues band Chicken Shack and vocalist Dave Walker. That year,
Street Corner Talking brought the band its best chart success up to
that date. "Tell Mama", "Street
Comer Talking", "All I Can Do Is Cry" and the band's funky
re-make of the Motown classic, "I Can't Get Next To You", took
the band to platinum status and placed them in front of wildly enthusiastic
rock audiences in arenas all over the world.
"It was a great time", says Simmonds "such
commercial success doesn't come to everyone and I also felt we were
making important music too, which made it doubly satisfying"
After the successful run of the early to mid 70's Simmonds moved operations
to the USA and continued making the kind of records he wanted to make
with a succession of line-ups. Records as diverse as the acoustic blues,
Slow Train, on Relix and the hard rocking Rock And Roll Warriors appeared
and all were eagerly accepted by the fans.
A three record deal with Crescendo, in 1987, took the band into a more
rock direction, with records such as Live 'n ' Kicking placing the group
in a live setting, one in which they have always excelled.
In the nineties, Let It Ride was released and then turning things around
in 1994, Simmonds enlisted Pete McMahon for vocal and harmonica duties
and ex Robert Gray drummer Dave Olson and recorded Bring It Home for
Viceroy Records. This set the tone for the next five years.
Following that successful record, Nathaniel Peterson was brought in
to handle the bass playing and singing and after touring the world extensively
for three years, in 1999, The Blues Keep me Holding On was released on
Mystic Music. This modern blues record brought the band's epic music
journey full circle.
"The music of SAVOY BROWN has never really got that far away from
the blues", Simmonds says. "Today, I can still do a show that
does straight traditional blues along with rock hits like "Tell
Mama" and it all seems to fit. Everything that I have done with
the band has had a blues stand point to it".
Now, since the year 2001, the band line-up includes David Malachowski,
Gerry Sorrentino, Dennis Cotton and is led as always by Simmonds. With
more than three decades behind it, SAVOY BROWN continues to operate as
a powerful and important blues/rock and boogie act, with a fan base that
remains large, and a future that shines clear and bright.
Camp Moondance 2025 Lineup
MDJ Saloon Stage
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Fried Food Fantasy All fried foods and their award winning Dynamite Dog
Pere’s Smokehouse BBQ Brisket, Pulled pork, Ribs, Chicken, Baked Beans, Smoked Mac & Cheese, Coleslaw
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Friday & Saturday from 9am-Noon Breakfast & Bloody Mary/Mimosa Bar
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