City night

"Savoy Brown's City Night is a declarative return to the blues after the group digressed into more rock-oriented territory on Witchy Feelin' (Ruf Records, 2017). As a result, this album under the aegis of founder and titular leader Kim Simmonds has more in common with The Devil to Pay (Ruf Records, 2015), an equally uncompromising tribute to his roots ... Kim Simmonds clearly elevates the musicianship of his accompanists, and while he might be faulted for not allowing them to challenge him, he's clearly more interested in continuously digging deeper into the well of contemporary electric blues than exploring new ground".

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"In fronting his band as a vocalist for the last 7 years, Kim [Simmonds] has compromised his style slightly. There's still a melange of stinging guitar work over a killer rhythm section, but his laid back conversational vocal style is closer to say the late Tony Joe White or JJ Cale than predecessors such as Chris Youlden, Dave Walker or Joe Whiting ... A mature blues artist who knows the value of dynamics, grooves, a guitar hook and some searing solos that still find room for tonal subtly and are forged with real purpose."City Night" crosses over his Brit blues-rock into a southern tinged roots-rock style that aches with feel, drips with experience and is delivered with technical excellence ... An enduring guitarist and relatively recent lead vocalist who with "City Night" has managed to breathe fresh life into the very blues-rock genre that he helped to create in the late 60's".

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