Name: Shake Down
Brand: Savoy Brown Blues band

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

UMCLP073

Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-04-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

805520240734

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Savoy Brown Blues band

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

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Shake Down, the debut album from the much-respected London-based Savoy Brown Blues Band was originally released on Decca Records in September 1967. It was produced by the influential team of Mike Vernon and Gus Dudgeon. This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1967 Decca UK stereo release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl. Led by Kim Simmonds, Savoy Brown were one of the UK's most successful and exportable outfits. 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."&nbsp;

Shake Down

Music GB

Discover "Shake Down" by Savoy Brown Blues band on 180g vinyl from UMC. A faithful re-issue of their debut album capturing the essence of US blues classics.