Blue Matter is the third album by the band Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues rock band, formed in 1965, in Battersea, South West London...

. Teaming up once again with producer Mike Vernon, it finds them experimenting even more within the blues framework. Several tracks feature piano (played by Bob Hall, guitarist Kim Simmonds, and vocalist Chris Youlden, who even plays guitar here) as well as trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

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This album featured a mix of live and studio recordings. The live tracks were recorded at the now defunct City of Leicester College of Education, because the band was scheduled to tour the USA and needed additional tracks to complete the Album in time for the tour. The college had booked the band to perform a few weeks prior to the tour and the booking represented their only chance to record the extra tracks. An offer to perform the concert free of charge was accepted by the college and the concert was duly recorded, a number of the live tracks being added to the album.

Due to the fact that Chris Youlden was suffering from Tonsillitis, Dave Peverett stood in as lead vocalist.

Track listing

1. "Train to Nowhere" (Chris Youlden, Kim Simmonds) 4:12
2. "Tolling Bells" (Youlden, Simmonds) 6:33
3. "She's Got a Ring in His Nose and a Ring on Her Hand" (Youlden) 3:07
4. "Vicksburg Blues" (Youlden, Bob Hall) 4:00
5. "Don't Turn Me From Your Door" (John Lee Hooker
   John Lee Hooker
   John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
   
   ) 5:04
6. "May Be Wrong" (Dave Peverett) 7:50
7. "Louisiana Blues" (Muddy Waters) 9:06
8. "It Hurts Me Too
   It Hurts Me Too
   "It Hurts Me Too" is a blues standard that is "one of the most interpreted blues [songs]". First recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar...
   
   " (Mel London) 6:53

Savoy Brown

• Chris Youlden: Lead Vocal, Guitars, Piano
• Kim Simmonds: Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica, Piano
• "Lonesome" Dave Peverett: Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Vocal
• Bob Hall: Piano
• Rivers Jobe: Bass
• Roger Earle: Drums, Percussion

Additional Musicians

• Terry Flannery, Keith Martin, Alan Moore, Brian Perrin: Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Tone Stevens: Percussion & Additional Bass

Production

• Arranged By Savoy Brown & Mike Vernon
• Produced By Mike Vernon
• Recorded & Engineered By Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker is a multiple award-winning Anglo-American music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy Governor, who has produced Platinum and Gold certified pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present.- Career :Baker began his career at Decca Records in England at the age...
  
  
• Assistant Recording Engineers: Colin Freeman, Michael Mailes, John Punter, Mike Vernon