The London R n B boom led by, for example, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and to some extent the Beatles quickly moved into mainstream pop and left a vacuum in the London clubs.
This vacuum, in London, was filled in the mid 60’s by John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton and Savoy Brown’s Blues Band featuring Kim Simmonds.
Both these bands became headliners at major London clubs such as The Marquee establishing a “blues night” amongst the mainstream soul and popular music in the charts at that time.
As headlining pioneers of the new blues movement Savoy Brown gave a platform to emerging bands in other areas of the U.K. Ten Years After and Jethro Tull both were opening acts to Savoy Brown on blues night at the Marquee.
Chicken Shack from Birmingham also came to London and along with the early Fleetwood Mac established themselves on the scene.
John Mayall, Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Chicken Shack and Ten Years After became the “big six” blues bands at that time.
Hits soon followed for these bands (Savoy Brown cracking the USA in 1969) and the blues movement quickly gave way to the heavy rock of Black Sabbath, themselves a blues band when they started.
The British Blues Boom was a phenomena never to be repeated again and remains one of the foremost U.K. music movements of all.
P/W - 33&third
1981 - Rock 'N' Roll Warriors [Rem.1999]
01 - Cold Hearted Woman
02 - Georgie
03 - Bad Breaks(make Me Feel Good)
04 - Dont Tell Me I Told You
05 - This Could Be The Night
06 - Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone
07 - Shot Down By Love
08 - Bad Girls
09 - Got Love If You Wanted
10 - Nobody's Perfect
11 - Street Corner Talking
12 - I'm Tired
13 - Hellbound Train
1986 - Slow Train [Acoustic]
01 - Slow Train
02 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
03 - Bone Shakin'
04 - It's Too Late
05 - Meet Me In The Bottom
06 - Little Red Rooster
07 - Come Back Baby
08 - Another Man Done Gone
09 - Ramblin' On My Mind
10 - I'm Ready
1988 - Make Me Sweat
01 - Limousine Boogie (Hey Hey Mama)
02 - Just For Kicks
03 - Good Time Lover
04 - Goin' Down
05 - Hard Way To Go
06 - Don't Tell Me It's Over
07 - Runnin' With A Bad Crowd
08 - Tell Mama
09 - Shot In The Head
10 - Breakin' Up
11 - On The Prowl
1989 - Kings of Boogie
01 - Kings Of Boogie
02 - Deep In My Heart
03 - A Man Alone
04 - No Win Love
05 - Mean Business
06 - Bad State Of Mind
07 - Heartbreaks Make You Strong
08 - Since You've Been Gone
09 - Caught Me In The Saddle
10 - All Burned Out
11 - Until The Sky Fades Away
