Sienna

Sienna

ASIN: B000027U47

Track Listings

1. Cal Massey - Lindsay Cooper, Stanley Cowell, Stanley Cowell

2. I Think It's Time to Say Goodbye Again

3. Evidence

4. Sylvia's Place

5. I Concentrate on You

6. Sweet Song

7. Sienna

8. Dis Place

9. Celia

Tracks:

A Hard Way To Go
That Same Feelin'
Master Hare
Needle And Spoon
A Little More Wine
I'm Crying
Stay While The Night Is Young
Is That So
When I Was A Young Boy

Customer Reviews:

60's English Band.......2006-11-10

This is a great album.I own an original vinyl of this bought brand new.The songs are a great mixture of blues and ballads,guitars and brass which was popular in the 60'sSongs also carry a message and a few deal with drug use.Kim Simmonds and Lonesome Dave went on later to form the band Foghat.

Good, But Could Be Better.......2006-02-28

If you are a Savoy Brown fan, this early configuration of the group probably suits you. The English version of Blues discovered so famously in the 60' and 70's. However, the quality of the recording mix is somewhat lacking. There are available remastered CD's with dual album titles from this group that cover this early and blues oriented Savoy Brown that is better to listen to and more adept for listening, recording and dubbing. Your money is better spent there than with these sub par vinyl copies.

Oh yeah, I feel all right with my Youlden and Simmonds!.......2004-11-10

This 1970 album represents one of the greatest triumphs in British blues history. And by triumph, I mean musical as opposed to commercial.

When this album was recorded, Savoy Brown had just finished campaigning in the States, in support of the moderately successful 'A Step Further' (# 71 on Billboard's Top 200). Their previous albums were essentially a mix of standards and various band member's compositions. However, 'Raw Sienna' features only the blues scripture of Simmonds and Youlden. And though it was hoped all prior success would be eclipsed - it was not.

For despite the opportunity to expand artistically, Youlden was not happy with the situation, feeling that the band had peaked. So, this would be his final hurrah with Savoy Brown, and arguably his greatest artistic achievement. Youlden's subsequent work with the likes of Danny Kirwan (i.e. 'You're Just a Little Cog In a Big Wheel'), though excellent, also lacked any big commercial success.

Meanwhile, Simmonds was competing with the likes of Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, along with all the other axe slingers of the day, who were in fierce competition for the dollars of guitar mad music fans. And Kim certainly delivers the goods here, while expanding upon his artistic depth and vision, by featuring an array of bravura styles and monumental tones. One listen to 'Raw Sienna' and you'll agree that Simmonds stands in peerage among Britain's elite - Marvin, Green, Clapton, Beck, Townshend, Page, Blackmore, Frampton, Richards, Taylor, and Moore, to name a few.

The prime cuts start with 'A Hard Way To Go', with Youlden's gritty vocals and Simmonds jazzy fretwork.

Next, 'That Same Feelin' starts with a horn intro supplemented by Simmonds strong riffing. Youlden careens about seemingly crazed, to be followed by Simmonds hard edged yanking over a haunting pedaled piano tone. Then Youlden scats in dementia, until Simmonds mows everyone down with shards of massive steely tones.

'Master Hare' is one of Simmonds greatest fret board achievements. With its angular scalar runs and psychedelic tones, it doesn't sound at all dated, but rather illustrates the work of a virtuoso.

The drug tome 'Needle and Spoon' comes across like an epitaph, as Youlden practically begs to be committed into the Betty Ford Clinic. And all the while, Simmonds' call-and-response fretwork is astounding, like all very Otis Rush with fish 'n chips. This tune should've been rolled out for that whole "Just Say No To Drugs" campaign. No wait, if that'd happened the whole country would still be strung out. I mean, Savoy Brown makes it all sound very cool, so pass me those works!

Say, didn't Diamond Dave cut 'A Little More Wine' for the Vegas crowd? I'm not sure. Although, you'd think that any association whatsoever with this album would help boost Roth's ailing career, all I think it did was increase this album's sales. You know, because people want to hear how it's really done. (Yes Dave, I do want fries with that. And no, I will not apologize to Eddie for you.)

On 'I'm Cryin', Youlden elicits in the listener, thoughts of deep depression and ultimately suicide. Only Simmonds' upbeat jangling finger gymnastics can get one's karma back in focus. Thanks Kim, I'll ditch the Prozac and take sixteen more bars of that funky music, white boy.

The next tune can be put on when you're with that bit'o'honey, because 'Stay While The Night Is Young' will relay your intent, while leaving nothing left open to interpretation. Get down Brown! (Ac'shully Diamond Dave covered this one, so hopefully no young love is getting spoiled out there.)

The track 'Is That So' features Simmonds jazzing it up ala T-Bone Walker, while 'When I was A Young Boy' allows us to hear Youlden at his most pensive and tender.

Now, buy this thing already and help Kim Simmonds in his declining years. Right!

Oh yeah, go see Savoy Brown soon at a concert hall near you!

Wow!.......2004-11-05

The guys at the loading dock downtown have been urging me to listen to this cd since I was ten. Finally I did and I was not disappointed. I didn't even know what "blues" were. I kept thinking "Blues Clues". Imagine dark, soft, your lover, fine wine, good cough syrup, great smoke; imagine forever. No recording will take you there like this one will. John 10:16. This cd is 16 years older than me, and though clearly ancient, it's immeasurably urgent. The cd you would take with you if "Lost". This stuff will walk with you forever. I almost can't believe it. Thanks you guys at the loading dock. Really thanks.

Another Step Furthur!.......2003-09-20

With the release of their fifth album, Savoy Brown starts hitting their stride. Raw Sienna is the first of three masterpieces in a row for Kim Simmonds and company, as well as Chris Youlden's finest hour with the band. (So fine, in fact, that he would leave the band soon after for his own solo career.) He and Kim would continue their experiments, begun on the previous album A Step Furthur, with horns and orchestration, and thus continue to expand the vocabulary of blues/rock. Some tracks, such as "Needle and Spoon," swing as well as any produced by jazzman Dave Brubeck, with intense lyrics that undercut the nonstop groove with pain. (Does anyone out there really think this is a prodrug song? Listen again: "You married to H, you know you married for life!") "Hard Way to Go" and "A Little More Wine" would deservedly become concert staples, while "Stay While the Night is Young" finds Youlden at his most romantic and tender. Kim was also beginning to compose some of the most eloquent instrumentals in rock: "That Same Feelin'" continues the 1960's-adventure-movie-soundtrack feel of "Waiting in the Bamboo Grove" from A Step Furthur, while "Is That So" foreshadows the deep introspection of Savoy's next masterpiece, Looking In. Most bands would be lucky to have one album half as good as Raw Sienna; the fact that Savoy Brown climbed so many peaks in their illustrious career shows the desire and the determination of leader Kim Simmonds to constantly reinvent and challange both himself and his fellow musicians.

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Sitting An' Thinking This is Fabulous

Raw Sienna/Looking In
Savoy Brown
Manufacturer: Beat Goes On
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007SM922
Release Date: 2005-04-18

Tracks:

Hard Way to Go
That Same Feelin'
Master Hare
Needle and Spoon
Little More Wine
I'm Crying
Stay While the Night Is Young
Is That So
When I Was a Young Boy
Gypsy
Poor Girl
Money Can't Save Your Soul
Sunday Night
Looking In
Take It Easy
Sitting an' Thinking
Leavin' Again
Romanoff

Album Description

First time on CD for these 70's albums from Savoy Brown. UK pressing reissue, remastered & packaged in a slip case. BGO Records. 2005.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Classic LPs on a Single CD of These Two 1970's Albums from the Well Respected British Blues Rockers, Led by Guitarist Kim Simmonds.

Customer Reviews:

Sitting An' Thinking This is Fabulous.......2007-01-24

Arguably Savoy Brown's 2 best albums packaged together in 77 fabulous minutes and 18 songs. I always liked the more rocking sound of "Looking In" over the more intimate blues bar sound of "Raw Sienna", but both albums really kick. The best songs for me are are "Stay While the Night Is Young" and "Needle and Spoon" on Sienna and "Leavin Again", "Money Can't Save Your Soul" and "Sunday Night" on Looking In. But, believe me, ALL the songs are great on Looking In if you like rock with a little blues thrown in and some great guitar solos that aren't overblown like Skynyrd's "Freebird". The music is similar to Wishbone Ash and pre-Stevie Fleetwood Mac. Both Chris Youlden on "Raw Sienna" and Lonesome Dave on "Lookin In" provide excellent soulful vocals and to me sound more similar than different.

Liner notes are OK but author Alan Robinson much favors Raw Sienna over Looking In - I disagree. Also, there is a major mistake on the back page of the booklet - the credits for each album are switched. My only other complaint is they don't list the times of the songs anywhere.

I never cared much for Foghat, except their first hit, "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" but you can definitely hear pre-Foghat in Looking In. Lonesome Dave doesn't scream as much as he did with Foghat. It's a shame everybody except Kim Simmonds left for Foghat after this, but Simmonds landed on his feet and later editions of Savoy Brown produced a few fine albums after this, like Street Corner Talking.

One final note: anybody hear the similarity of Sienna's "Stay While the Night Is Young" to the recent hit by Jack Johnson called, "Sitting, Wishing, Waiting"? "Stay While.." is a little slower pace but the acoustic guitar strumming, laid-back snare drums and vocals sound very, very similar like these could be 2 songs on the same album. Wonder if Johnson ever listened to "Lookin In" or if this is just music evolution circling back on itself.

Fine, fine collection. Buy it!! I hardly ever hear Savoy Brown played on classic rock radios, yet I remember they were BIG in the early 70's! And that was in Nebraska! I think this kind of music is going to come back after people tire of nu metal.

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Mystical enchantment
Beautiful music

Sienna
Brian Crain
Manufacturer: Crain Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0006H19E8
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

Song For Sienna
Lavender Hills
Crimson Sky
The Secret Letter
Eclipse Of The Moon
Midnight Blue
The Garden Gate
At First Light
Season Of Joy
Tears In The Fountain
Song Of The Heart
After Sunset

Customer Reviews:

Mystical enchantment.......2006-02-14

I love this CD. Such soft, delicate sounds. I play it over & over. Don't pass it up. You wouldn't be reading this if you didn't enjoy this style of music.

Beautiful music.......2005-09-25

If you like piano compositions, this is one CD not to be missed! It is very relaxing and very soothing, and the composer "paints" a picture with his piano. Check it out. You won't be sorry!

Christo e Nato - Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy

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Christo e Nato - Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy

Manufacturer: MSR Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0001HXTG4
Release Date: 2003-12-15

Album Description

The small repertoire of surviving medieval Italian praise songs, or LAUDE , was first brought to modern attention in the late 19th century by the German scholar Friedrich Ludwig. Ludwig and Guido Adler both published selections from a beautifully copied collection of these songs, the Florentine Laudario. This collection and the Cortona Laudario are the only two large collections of laude that survive complete with their musical notation. This recording features selections from these vocal editions. To complement the laude, several instrumental works from late 14th and early 15th century polyphony, and from the Faenza codex, have been featured as well.

Tracks:

Cal Massey - Lindsay Cooper, Stanley Cowell, Stanley Cowell
I Think It's Time to Say Goodbye Again
Evidence
Sylvia's Place
I Concentrate on You
Sweet Song
Sienna
Dis Place
Celia

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Durango Red
Tracy Oconnell
Manufacturer: Sienna Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000300GII
Release Date: 2004-08-15

Tracks:

Roses Will Come Our Way
Hummingbird
Durango Red
Portrait in Blue
Salvation Army
Change of Heart
Sweet Gospel Angel
I'm Not Crying Now
It Takes a Train
Old Lies Again
The Old Prairie Waltz

Album Description

"Durango Red" reaches across old-time, folk, bluegrass, and American country music traditions to echo their common themes. Tracy O'Connell's songwriting blends seamlessly with the old-time country style of the Carter Family, lonesome mountain sounds, and 50's country standards. A rich blend of fiddle, acoustic guitar, Dobro, upright bass, and mandolin back Tracy's unique yet instantly familiar vocals - simple and beautiful, graced still with lush harmonies.

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Ambience
Sienna
Manufacturer: AbÃÂ²n Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA9JFA
Release Date: 2005-07-26

I Am Here: Songs of Kathryn Cooke & Jo-Anne Belvedere

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I Am Here: Songs of Kathryn Cooke & Jo-Anne Belvedere
Kathryn Cooke , and Jo-Anne Belvedere
Manufacturer: Kathryn Cooke & Jo-Anne Belveder
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA3CAI
Release Date: 2005-11-08

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