Kim Simmonds has a story to tell, and it’s a good one.
As guitarist and founding member of Savoy Brown – or Savoy Brown Blues Band, as they were originally known – Simmonds and his bandmates were key members of the movement that helped launch the British blues/rock movement that paved the way for acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who.
Talk of the infamous “British Invasion” of the 1960s typically brings to mind the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals and Eric Clapton, but delve a little deeper and Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Mayall and even U.S.-born Jimi Hendrix surface as artists who got their start during this critical time between 1964 and 1967, when the rebellious rumblings of the London underground gave way to a historic uprising of British-based blues/rock talent.