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

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

. The album featured "Lonesome" Dave Peverett on vocals after

Chris Youlden Christopher Thomas Youlden (born 1 January 1943, Dagenham, England) is an English blues singer. He worked with the British blues band Savoy Brown from 1967 until 1970. He has since released several solo albums. His albums with Savoy Brown are ...

left the band the previous spring. Leader/guitarist

Kim Simmonds Kim Maiden Simmonds (5 December 1947 – 13 December 2022) was a Welsh musician who was the founder, guitarist, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the blues rock band Savoy Brown. Simmonds has led Savoy Brown since its inception ...

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 UK

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

Track listing

Side one

# "Gypsy" (

) – 0:57 # "Poor Girl" (

Tony Stevens Tony Stevens (born 12 September 1949) is an English musician, best known as the bassist with the bands Foghat, Savoy Brown, and Nobody's Business. Career Stevens joined the British blues-rock band Savoy Brown in 1968, and contributed to fo ...

) – 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 musician, best known as the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Foghat, which he founded following his tenu ...

, 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

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the feature ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

* Lonesome Dave –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

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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 on ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

* Tone Stevens –

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Additional musicians

* Owen Finnegan – congas on some tracks

Technical

* Kim Simmonds –

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* Savoy Brown – arrangements * Paul Tregurtha –

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

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Charts

Album

References

External links

Savoy Brown's Homepage
{{Authority control 1970 albums Savoy Brown albums Decca Records albums Albums produced by Kim Simmonds