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Led by Kim Simmonds, Savoy Brown were one of the UK's most successful and
exportable outfts. Shake Down is viewed as one of the strongest and most
respectful captures of the US blues they worshipped, bringing songs by Albert
King, Willie Dixon and John Lee Hooker to eager UK purists.
Recorded in West Hampstead rather than Chicago, the 11 covers showcased the
remarkably tight playing of the band, which had formed in Battersea two years
earlier. Savoy Brown on this recording comprised Trinidad born Brice Portius on
vocals (his only album with the group), Simmonds and Martin Stone trading blues
licks on their guitars, underpinned by the rhythm section of Ray Chappell on bass
and Leo Mannings on drums. US critic Dave Marsh was to say that Shake Down
was "as sympathetic a rendering of the blues as any English group has managed
to lay down."
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Tracklist
I Ain't Superstitious
Let Me Love You Baby
Black Night
High Rise
Rock Me Baby
I Smell Trouble
Oh! Pretty Woman
Little Girl
The Doormouse Rides the Rails
It's My Own Fault
Shake 'Em On Down