Label: Omnivore Recordings (U.S.), OVCD-164
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Washington, County Durham, England (19 April 1942)
Time: 39:54
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 261 Mb
It was recorded for Reprise Records as a full-length album, clearly intended for official release, but was recalled by the company after being accidentally issued on 8-track.
Before it was recalled, a limited number of copies were sold, which are now very rare.
It was intended to be a sequel to O Lucky Man!, but due to it being recalled, the album was dropped and Price moved on to record Between Today and Yesterday, with its title track originally having been written for Savaloy Dip. In 2016 it was released by Omnivore Recordings.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savaloy_Dip)
No one seems certain why Savaloy Dip became an enigmatic entry in Alan Price's solo catalog. It was the former Animals' keyboardist's first album after his song score for Lindsay Anderson's film O Lucky Man! earned him some of the best reviews of his career, as well as raising his profile in the United States, where his solo work had not achieved the same public acceptance as in the U.K. Reprise Records was poised to release Savaloy Dip in the United States in the spring of 1974, but the album was in the early stages of the manufacturing process when the label pulled the plug on the release, though no one seems to understand why. At the time, Reprise farmed out production of 8-track tapes to the Ampex Corporation, and Ampex accidentally shipped out a handful of Savaloy Dip 8-tracks to distributors, so bootlegs of the album have surfaced over the years, but most of Price's fans have never heard it. [In 2016, Omnivore Recordings finally gave Savaloy Dip its first legit release on CD, and while the album doesn't quite qualify as a lost masterpiece, the notion that this music was considered unworthy of release is utterly baffling. For Savaloy Dip, Price beefed up his usual studio band with a horn section and additional percussionists, but this music has a loose and jaunty feel with an R&B backbone that recalls his O Lucky Man! tunes but with a more playful edge. Price's jazzy organ lines and piano solos give the arrangements his sonic trademark. Price's songs on Savaloy Dip suggest a more rollicking version of Arthur-era Kinks, full of local color and tales of characters like cross-dressing Willie ("Willie the Queen"), easily distracted boxer Jimmy ("Poor Jimmy"), a nameless and luckless ne'er do well ("Over and Over Again"), and even homesick Alan Price (the title track), while "Country Life" and "Savaloy Dip" revel in the pleasures of the life of a small-town everyman. Perhaps Reprise was a bit taken aback by the very British tone of this music in 1974, but decades down the line, Savaloy Dip sounds like one of Price's best albums of the '70s, eclectic and full of heart while his fusion of rock, R&B, and jazz is Tyneside Soul at its best.
(allmusic.com/album/savaloy-dip-mw0001148354)
01. Smells Like Lemon, Tastes Like Wine (04:34)
02. Willie the Queen (03:13)
03. You Won’t Get Me (04:03)
04. Poor Jimmy (04:16)
05. Savaloy Dip (04:04)
06. Keep on Doin’ It (02:37)
07. Country Life (02:32)
08. Passin’ Us By (02:24)
09. Over and Over Again (04:21)
10. And So Goodbye (03:57)
11. Between Today and Yesterday (03:49)
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