ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MAY 21, 1998 By Steve Newton I know a little about seminal blues-rockers Savoy Brown. I know that they've been around since 1966, that founding guitarist Kim Simmonds is the only original member left, and that the boogie tune "Tell Mama" used to rock my world in the early '70s. What's news … Continue reading Kim Simmonds ponders an early-’70s era Savoy Brown reunion with the guys from Foghat
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That time Kim Simmonds told me that Eric Clapton was the greatest white blues guitar player he’d ever seen
By Steve Newton I was a huge Foghat fan in the seventies. I couldn't get enough of their hard-driving boogie-blues on albums like Energized and Rock and Roll Outlaws. When I learned that most of their original members had come from a band called Savoy Brown I went and checked them out as well, and … Continue reading That time Kim Simmonds told me that Eric Clapton was the greatest white blues guitar player he’d ever seen