I start to visualize a certain, human situation Man breaks up with woman. In other cases, it might be just things that I see around me, people, what they do, the attitude they have, experiences they have etc. It might not be autobiographical, if youd like, but you sort of project some of that into a song. To a certain extent you draw upon your own experiences, you know that What you think, how you feel and you try to put all of that into a particular song. Its a piece of history, which still, I think, stands up today.īut for me it could be any number of things a definite emotion, rhythm, patterns, feeling, the musical feeling.

Recent years have seen the re-release of those four seminal Savoy Brown albums (Getting To The Point, A Step Further, Blue Matter, and Raw Sienna), and many covers of Youldens songs by artists as diverse as Tommy Castro, Bettye Lavette, Charlie Musselwhite, Mel Tillis, Ricky Scaggs, Jimmy Witherspoon, Foghat, and David Lee Roth, among others. Youldens latestCLOSING TIME (2018, Last Music) is the result of those sessions.Ī 2011 appearance at Glastonbury Festival notwithstanding, Youlden has been largely out of the frame for over two decades sincenonetheless, his art endures.

The sessions yielded an albums worth of materialincluding one new original, I Wanna Stay Alive, but the tapes got mothballed.Īnother weekend session took place in 1991 with Geraint Watkins joining on piano and organ, but again, the tapes were archived. The OTs performed to packed audiences, with a parade of British luminaries sitting in such as Jo Anne Kelly, Phil May, Dick Taylor, Paul Jones, the Jona Lewie, Wayne Kramer, Lew Lewis and Bill Hurley. Youlden was first introduced to Kim Simmonds when he was recruited by Martin Stone as a last-minute dep for Brice Portius one night, and it was Stone again, in 1979, that encouraged Youlden to return to the stage and join him as lead vocalist in a house blues band (The OTs) that was being formed for a Sunday night residency at Dingwalls in Londons Camden Town.

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