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The Black Crowes
At the time of their 1990 debut, the kind of rock &
roll the Black Crowes specialize in was out of style. Only Guns N' Roses
came close to approximating a vintage Stones-style raunch, but they were
too angry and jagged to pull it off completely. The Black Crowes replicated
that Stonesy swagger and Faces boogie perfectly. Vocalist Chris Robinson
appropriated the sound and style of vintage Rod Stewart while guitarist
Rich Robinson fused Keith Richards' lean attack with Ron Wood's messy
rhythmic sense. At their best, the Black Crowes echo classic rock without
slavishly imitating their influences.
The Robinson brothers originally formed the Black Crowes in Georgia in
1984. The first single from their 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker,
"Jealous Again," tas a moderate hit but it was the band's cover
of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle" that made the group a multi-platinum
success. "Hard to Handle" climbed its way into the Top 40, propelling
the album into the Top Ten. The acoustic ballad "She Talks to Angels"
became the band's second Top 40 hit in the spring of 1991. Shake Your
Money Maker would eventually sell over three million copies.
The Black Crowes delivered their second album, The Southern Harmony and
Musical Companion, in the spring of 1992. It entered the charts at number
one. The band established themselves as a popular concert attraction that
summer, selling out theaters across America.
In mid-2000, the band collaborated with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page
on the double-disc Live at the Greeks A Tribute to a Work in Progress:
Greatest Hits 1990-1999, a 16-track best-of compilation was also released
in mid-2000. The Don Was-produced Lions appeared in spring 2001, and a
summer tour with Oasis -- the Tour of Brotherly Love -- followed in June.
But all was apparently not well with the group, in January of 2002 the
band announced that they were on hiatus. In 2005, however, the group got
back together for a show at San Francisco's Fillmore, a concert that was
released in both CD and DVD form in 2006 as Freak 'N' Roll... Into the
Fog. That same year.
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