Shake That Thing: The Blues in Britain

Over 50 years of rocking the blues, Savoy Brown, with leader Kim Simmonds at the helm, return with 'City Night', their 40th album. On the back of a number one Billboard blues hit in 2017, expectations are high for this new band offering. The album features Kim Simmonds on vocals and searing lead guitar and he is complemented with the most consistent lineup in the bands history, going strong for more than 10 years now. 'City Night' is comprised of 12 high energy blues rock songs to surely please the worldwide fan base. "Walking On Hot Stones", Payback Time" and "Don't Hang Me Out To Dry" will catch the attention of radio DJ's looking for the fresh new sound the Savoy Brown brings to roots music.

2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of Love saw psychedelic pop emerging from the underground clubs to infiltrate the home-grown music scene mainstream, with the vast majority following in the footsteps of perennial market leaders The Beatles in surrendering to the new genre. As the year progressed, it seemed that more or less every element of the British pop world had been swept up in the blissed-out UFOria. Beat boom survivors, R&B stalwarts, sharp-suited mods, Swinging London soul revues, earnest acoustic folkies, Denmark Street hustlers, traditional pop acts… all abandoned or refined their previous identities to make music that reflected the ubiquitous influence of psychedelia in it's myriad paisley-patterned guises. Across four hours and eighty tracks, the all-singing, not-much-dancing Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds anticipates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love to chronicle a tumultuous twelve-month period of music-making within the British Isles.

When rock 'n' roll hit the stores of Britain with Bill Haley, Elvis, Gene, Fats & Little Richard, the backlash from the British music press was by way of incredible condescension towards the music. The strange thing about the attitude of those journalists is that rock 'n' roll had existed in Britain before 1956 and the coming of Presley, albeit in a slightly more relaxed form. This fascinating collection sets out to show something of what was going on in Britain between 1954 and 1957.