Label: Deram Records (Germany), 844 019-2
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 33:40
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 222 Mb
Comprising
the same lineup as Street Corner Talking, Savoy Brown released
Hellbound Train a year later. For this effort, Kim Simmonds' guitar
theatrics are toned down a bit and the rest of the band seems to be a
little less vivid and passionate with their music. The songs are still
draped with Savoy Brown's sleek, bluesy feel, but the deep-rooted blues
essence that so easily emerged from their last album doesn't rise as
high throughout Hellbound Train's tracks. The title cut is most
definitely the strongest, with Dave Walker, Simmonds, and Paul Raymond
sounding tighter than on any other song, and from a wider perspective,
Andy Silvester's bass playing is easily Hellbound's most complimenting
asset. On tracks like "Lost and Lonely Child," "Doin' Fine," and "If I
Could See an End," the lifeblood of the band doesn't quite surge into
the music as it did before, and the tracks become only average-sounding
blues efforts. Because of Savoy Brown's depth of talent, this rather
nonchalant approach doesn't make Hellbound Train a "bad" album by any
means -- it just fails to equal the potency of its predecessor. But
there is a noticeable difference in the albums that followed this one,
as the band and especially Simmonds himself was beginning to show signs
of fatigue, and a significant decline in the group's overall sound was
rapidly becoming apparent.
(allmusic.com/album/hellbound-train-mw0001993572)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Doin' Fine (02:50)
02. Lost and Lonely Child (06:01)
03. I'll make Everything Alright (03:22)
04. Troubled by These Days and Times (05:46)
05. If I Could See an End (02:59)
06. It'll Make You Happy (03:29)
07. Hellbound Train (09:11)
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