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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