''Looking In'' is the sixth album by the British blues band

Savoy Brown Savoy Brown (originally Savoy Brown Blues Band) were a British blues rock band formed in Battersea, southwest London, in 1965. Part of the late 1960s blues rock movement, Savoy Brown primarily achieved success in the United States, where they p ...

. The album featured "Lonesome" Dave Peverett on vocals, after Chris Youlden left the band the previous spring. Leader/guitarist

Kim Simmonds Kim Maiden Simmonds (5 December 1947 – 13 December 2022) was a Welsh musician. He was the founder, guitarist, primary songwriter and sole constant member of the blues rock band Savoy Brown, which he formed in 1965. Simmonds had led Savoy Br ...

would be the only band member to continue with the band after this album, as all other band members left to form

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the following year. It was released by Decca in 1970 (SKL 5066). For release in the United States and Canada, tapes were leased to Parrot Records (PAS 71042). The album spent a week on the United Kingdom

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and reached number 50. It did considerably better in the U.S. where it spent 19 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200, peaking at number 39, their second-highest charting U.S. album.

Track listing

Side one # "Gypsy" (

) – 0:57 # "Poor Girl" (

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) – 4:04 # "Money Can't Save Your Soul" (

Dave Peverett David Jack Peverett (16 April 1943 – 7 February 2000), also known as Lonesome Dave, was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Rock music, rock band Foghat, which he co-founded fo ...

, Simmonds) – 5:34 # "Sunday Night" (Simmonds) – 5:23 # "Looking In" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:17 Side two # "Take It Easy" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:47 (not 3:40 as printed on album) # "Sitting an' Thinking" (Simmonds) – 2:40 # "Leavin' Again" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 8:29 # "Romanoff" (Simmonds) – 1:01

Personnel

Savoy Brown *

– lead guitar, piano * Lonesome Dave – vocals, guitar *

Roger Earl Roger Earl (born 16 May 1946) is an English drummer best known as a member of the rock band Foghat. A founding member, along with guitarist and vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, guitarist Rod Price, and bassist Tony Stevens, Earl is the only ...

– drums * Tone Stevens – bass Additional musicians * Owen Finnegan –

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on some tracks Technical * Kim Simmonds – producer * Savoy Brown – arrangements * Paul Tregurtha –

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* Eric Holand – engineer * Harry Fisher – mastering * Anthony Hawkins – 1990 CD remastering * David Anstey, Jim Baikie – artwork

Charts

References

External links

Savoy Brown homepage
{{Authority control 1970 albums Savoy Brown albums Decca Records albums Albums produced by Kim Simmonds