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album, '' Getting to the Point'' (1968), as well as on the tracks "Vicksburg Blues", "Train to Nowhere", and "Tolling Bells" on the following '' Blue Matter'' album. Jobe was replaced in Savoy Brown by Tone Stevens (who would later leave Savoy Brown with fellow members Lonesome Dave Peverett and

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) in November 1968, and performed as a session musician and busker until his death. He died in 1979 in London, at the age of 29, as the result of being hit by a train (ruled death by misadventure by local authorities).

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Savoy Brown's homepageGenesis-news.comDiscography at Discogs.com
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