3 keepers
keeper avg .333
For an apparently second-tier Savoy Brown album it's consistently played and delivered throughout, featuring Kim Simmonds's usually staccato guitar attack and Dave Walker's (vocalist for hire, later of briefly of Fleetwood Mac) emotive vocals. Lead-off track "Shot In The Head"****, written by Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young, resembles Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac blues featuring Simmonds's prominent slide. On the heavy and driving "Second Try"**** Simmonds channels Paul Butterfield's staccato guitar style; the slower, jazzier "The Saddest Feeling" (Fats Domino meets "Presence Of The Lord") and "Love Me Please" ("Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys") are similarly and skillfully played. The third standout is the lyrically minimal but heavily pounding "So Tired"****, with Simmonds and keyboardist Paul Raymond trading badass riffs in the verses. Finally, each album side is concluded with a gleeful blues cover, the first side with Howlin' Wolf's "Howling For My Darling," the second Little Walter's "I Hate To See You Go." The basic 12-bar blues "I Can't Find You" and Chuck Berry R&B "Denim Demon" are less memorable tracks but otherwise I found this sleeper of an album more listenable and consistent than the pro consensus seems to find it.
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