{"id":8632,"date":"2017-09-08T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T02:18:15","slug":"how-about-some-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/09\/how-about-some-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"How About Some Blues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/guitar-blues-blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/guitar-blues-blue.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/guitar-blues-blue-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/guitar-blues-blue-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Sometimes, you just want to hear a good old-fashioned unadulterated blues. And sometimes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfairly often, actually\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe members of Savoy Brown feel like playing one. Here they are in 2013 on the Clocktower stage at the Kitchener, Ontario, Blues Festival. Since it was founded in 1965 the band has gone through almost too many personnel changes to keep track of, although that is possible if you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savoy_Brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this web page<\/a> and scroll down to <strong>Members<\/strong>. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Savoy Brown is led by guitarist Kim Simmonds with Pat DeSalvo on bass and Garnet Grimm on drums. Here they play a piece entitled, with uncanny accuracy, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slow Blues.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8221;\u00a0 They&#8217;re in B-flat. Feel free to play or sing along.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cP76n3WW67E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It may be that not all jazz listeners cotton to that uncomplicated approach to the blues, but those who do might consider looking up Savoy Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album called <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xjjatE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Witchy Feelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 It features the same musicians. Its eleven tracks include a gritty Kim Simmonds piece titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memphis Blues,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is not the 1912 W.C. Handy composition that helped pave the way for popular acceptance of jazz.&#8221;\u00a0 It feels good anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just want to hear a good old-fashioned unadulterated blues. And sometimes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfairly often, actually\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe members of Savoy Brown feel like playing one. Here they are in 2013 on the Clocktower stage at the Kitchener, Ontario, Blues Festival. 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