Label: Deram Records (Germany), 844 021-2
Style: Blues Rock, Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 46:18
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 275 Mb
Savoy
Brown made the best of Dave Walker's departure for Fleetwood Mac by
hiring Jack Lynton as their lead singer. While Lynton's voice can't
match the warmth instilled by Walker's, he does do a competent job at
melding with Kim Simmonds' guitar playing. His voice is sharp but not
overly exciting, yet it still presents "Coming Down Your Way" with
enough emotion to make it the album's standout track. The addition of
Ron Berg on percussion and Stan Saltzman's saxophone are worthy
instrumental extensions, helping to boost the album's energy level
another notch. "Ride on Babe," "If I Want To," "Some People," and the
title track are straight-sounding efforts, but they seem to lack the
blues resilience of what the band is capable of. There's enough of
Simmonds' talent to keep die-hard fans fascinated, yet the provocative
blues-rock character that has evolved from Savoy Brown as a complete
group has been slightly abandoned for the most part. Considering Savoy
Brown's past tribulations that have played out in such a short time
span, Jack the Toad can be labeled an adequate effort, but when
paralleled to the quality of strut and swagger that Simmonds has
administered with his members in the past, it may be regarded as a
little less than that.
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. Coming Down Your Way (04:56)
02. Ride On Babe (04:24)
03. Hold Your Fire (04:20)
04. If I Want To (04:00)
05. Endless Sleep (05:44)
06. Casting My Spell (04:14)
07. Just Cos' You Got The Blues Don't Mean You Gotta Sing (05:48)
08. Some People (06:06)
09. Jack the Toad (06:40)
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