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Savoy Brown: Hellbound Train

Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1972

Savoy Brown was once a resolutely typical British blues band. They could boogy an audience into submission in no time at all, and then keep them inert for what seemed like an eternity – Savoy Brown was merciless. And in those days people seemed to love every interminable minute of it.

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