An acoustic collection of over 20 songs from their 20 year history
The album is a double CD selling for the price of a single CD album
CD comes in ecopak
LP format is gatefold triple vinyl featuring all tracks
TRACKLISTING :
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[DISC 1]
1. Jealous Again Shake Your Money Maker
2. Share The Ride Three Snakes & One Charm
3. Remedy The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
4. Nonfiction Amorica
5. Hotel Illness The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
6. Soul Singing Lions
7. Ballad In Urgency Amorica
8. Wiser Time Amorica
9. Cold Boy Smile Unreleased
10. Under A Mountain Three Snakes & One Charm
[DISC 2]
1. She Talk s To Angels Shake Your Money Maker
2. My Morning Song The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
3. Downtown Money Waster Amorica
4. Good Friday Three Snakes & One Charm
5. Thorn In My Pride The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
6. Welcome To The Goodtimes By Your Side
7. Girl From A Pawnshop Three Snakes & One Charm
8. Sister Luck Shake Your Money Maker
9. She Unreleased : Gram Parsons Cover
10. Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
In celebration of the 20th year anniversary of their 1990 debut multi platinum release “Shake Your Money Maker,” The Black Crowes will release their first ever double album of all acoustic material on August 2, 2010.
After touring in 2009, The Black Crowes spent time at the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, recording over 20 songs from their 20 year history. The band arranged acoustic versions of many of their best loved songs and the band’s catalogue picks.
The double album, Croweology, will be sold at the cost of a single album as a “Thank You” to their fans for 20 years of support. Also to be released on vinyl, the project was produced by Paul Stacey and will be released on The Black Crowes label, Silver Arrow..
Following the album release and their 2010 “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys” Tour the band has planned a lengthy hiatus.
Chris Robinson had this to say, “With a smile so wide you can count my teeth and with a heart so full of love that it is spilling over the rim, I offer a humble and simple thank you. Thank you for your time, your imaginations, your heartaches and joy. Thank you for 20 years of cosmic rock n roll. 20 years of keeping it weird. 20 years of chasing horizons and before the band that dares dream out loud puts it down for a while, we are proud to give you our Croweology. This year the music is only for you as we celebrate what has been, what is now and whatever will be”.
As the Crowes fly …
A Black Crowes timeline
1966
Chris Robinson is born Dec. 20 in Atlanta; his parents are Stan Robinson, who’d had brief success as a singer with “Boom-A-Dip-Dip” in 1958 (even appearing on American Bandstand), and Nancy Robinson (nee Nancy Bradley), a country vocalist from Nashville.
1969
Rich Robinson born, also in Atlanta, on May 24.
1984
Mr. Crowe’s Garden, the punk-edged forerunner of the Black Crowes, makes its public debut in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with 18-year-old Chris on lead vocals and Rich (all of 15) on guitar. The band gets paid the princely sum of $50, and the check bounces. Chris enrolls at Georgia State University, but music is calling him, and his school days are numbered.
1988
With the addition of bassist Johnny Colt, drummer Steve Gorman and second guitarist Jeff Cease, Mr. Crowe’s Garden begins to hone a tougher, bluesier, more straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll sound. The Robinsons – who are writing pretty much all of the songs – change the name to the Black Crowes.
1989
George Drakoulias produces Shake Your Money Maker, the debut Black Crowes album, for Def American Records. Robinson pal Chuck Leavell, of the Allman Brothers Band, Sea Level and the Rolling Stones’ band, plays keyboards.
1990
Rolling Stone says Shake Your Money Maker is “a guitar-party cracker that marries white Southern R&B crunch and Anglo cock-strutting attitude in the beloved early ‘70s manner of the Faces and the Rolling Stones.” The band hits the road, and hits it hard, playing for 11 out of 12 months and sharing arena bills with the likes of Aerosmith, Heart and Metallica.
1991
Augmented by Eddie Harsch on keyboards, in early January the Crowes begin a cross-country tour with ZZ Top. After Chris’ repeated onstage criticism of corporate-sponsored rock ‘n’ roll tours (like the one they’re on, paid for by a prominent beer company), the Texas trio drops the Crowes from the bill.
In the spring, Rolling Stone readers name the Crowes Best New American Band, and Chris Best New Male Singer. They lose the Best New Artist Grammy to Mariah Carey, which is OK with them.
Great Britain’s Melody Maker calls the Crowes “The Most Rock ‘n’ Roll Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World.”
Shake Your Money Maker reaches No. 4 on the Billboard album chart. As “Hard to Handle” enters the Top 40, followed closely by “She Talks to Angels,” the album is certified triple platinum.
1992
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is released in May and goes immediately to No. 1. The second guitarist role is now filled by Marc Ford. The documentary Who Killed That Bird Out on Your Windowsill, featuring a brutally frank (and funny) look inside the Crowes’ nest, is released. And the never-ending tour continues.
1993
The band records the Tall album, which they aren’t happy with and choose not to release. So it’s back to the studio – between world tours.
1994
Released in November, album number three, the gold Amorica, reaches No. 11. Some retailers object to the album cover, featuring a red, white and blue bikini bottom (worn by a young woman who clearly wasn’t into lawn maintenance), and a second, black-bordered (hair-less) version is rushed into the shops. The band plays a short club tour under the moniker O.D. Jubilee.
1995
The Crowes spend the summer as part of the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge tour, and the fall headlining H.O.R.D.E. with fellow travelers Blues Traveler, Joan Osborne and Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers.
A Crowes cover of Bob Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” is included on HEMPilation, a benefit CD for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Chris sings “Almost Cut My Hair” with David Crosby on the latter’s live album It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.
1996
Three Snakes and One Charm is released in July, after yet another aborted project, which would have been called Band. Summer means the Further Festival, with Bob Weir and Ratdog, and both Colt and Ford exit, stage left. With Sven Pipien on bass, and (eventually) guitarist Audley Freed, the band spends most of 1997 and ’98 on the road.
1999
The stripped-down R&B set By Your Side appears in the early days of the year; “Kickin’ My Heart Around” makes No. 3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. But the fifth Black Crowes album marks the swan song for their relationship with Def American and its corporate partner, Sony.
In October, the legendary Jimmy Page joins the band for awe-inspiring shows in Los Angeles and New York City. TVT Records issues Live at the Greek, a 20-track CD (14 are brawny Zeppelin covers).
2000
The rock ‘n’ roll event of the summer is a triple bill of The Who, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes. Arenas are packed.
2001
Lions (produced by Don Was) is released on Richard Branson’s label V2, climbing to No. 20 in Billboard. With fellow sibling rockers Oasis and Spacehog, the Crowes go cross-country on the Tour of Brotherly Love, before headlining dates in Japan and Europe. Rich writes and records the score for the film Highway.
2002
“The Red Road” is Chris’ contribution to the soundtrack for the film The Banger Sisters. He announces a solo project, New Earth Mud, while Rich forms the Hookah Brown band. As Folk Family Robinson, Chris, Rich and father Stan cut a bluegrass version of Woody Guthrie’s “Reuben James” for the three-CD, multi-artist anthology Song of America.
Meanwhile, V2 issues Live, a collection of smokin’ cuts from the Lions tour, and it sells platinum. By year’s end, though, it’s official: The Black Crowes are “taking a break.” For how long, no one is willing (or able) to say.
2004
Rich’s first solo album, Paper, and Chris’ second, This Magnificent Distance. Chris tours with Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and his ever-evolving musical tribe Phil & Friends.
2005
Chris and Rich re-assemble the Crowes – Harsch, Gorman, Ford and Pipien – and co-headline yet another massive summer tour, with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Seven nights at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom and five nights at San Francisco’s venerated Fillmore Auditorium sell out.
2006
Freak ‘n’ Roll Into the Fog, recorded (and filmed) at the Fillmore, appears as a CD and DVD. Harsch and Ford are replaced by Rob Clores and Paul Stacey. Tracks for the abandoned Tall and Band projects are released as The Lost Crowes. And a stunning, primarily-acoustic set featuring just the Robinsons on a tour they call Brothers of a Feather, is recorded and will be released on CD halfway into the next year, along with the DVD Brothers of a Feather: Live at the Roxy.
2007
Luther Dickinson, the young slide guitar virtuoso from jam-band favorites the North Mississippi Allstars, is invited to lend his considerable talent to sessions for the first Black Crowes studio album since Lions in 2001. By November, he officially joins the band, replacing Stacey; Adam MacDougall is the new keys player.
2008
On the band’s own Silver Arrow label, Warpaint arrives in March, and hits No. 5 in Billboard. Its success spawns another round-the-globe tour, concluding with another five-night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco. A Web site, liveblackcrowes.com, offers fans downloads of shows from throughout the band’s career. Chris sings “Oh Atlanta” on the Little Feat & Friends – Join the Band CD.
2009
In February and March, the Crowes – Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson, Luther Dickinson, Sven Pipien, Adam MacDougall and Steve Gorman - record for five nights, in front of a small, invited audience, at Levon Helm’s Barn in Woodstock, NY Warpaint Live, an ambitious CD and DVD combining older and newer material, appears in April.
Twenty years after Shake Your Money Maker introduced the Black Crowes to the world, the Levon sessions are released (on Aug. 31) as Before the Frost … Until the Freeze. The ambitious project spans rhythm ‘n’ blues, psychedelia, acoustic country and plenty of the hardscrabble electric ass-kicking for which the band is known and loved. With special guest Larry Campbell on fiddle, banjo, mandolin and pedal steel, tracks range from the blistering take on Band-esque Americana “Good Morning Captain” to the innovative, trancelike instrumental rave “Aimless Peacock.”
Before the Frost is available as an individual CD, and it includes a unique Internet code allowing listeners to download Until the Freeze for FREE.
A limited-edition, two-disc vinyl release includes all 20 tracks.
After completing their 2009 “Stuck Inside Utopia” Tour with a sold out five night run at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco, The Black Crowes spent a week at the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, recording over 27 songs from their 20 year history.
2010
In celebration of the 20th year anniversary of their 1990 debut multi platinum release “Shake Your MoneyMaker,” The Black Crowes release their first-ever
double album of all acoustic material titled, Croweology.
Croweology, scheduled for release on August 3, 2010 was produced by Paul Stacey and recorded at Sunset Sound. The work will feature the bands most well known songs,
rarities from their extensive catalogue and selected covers.
The Black Crowes announce their fall “Say Goodnight To The Bad Guy” Tour.
The tour begins on August 12 and will again conclude with the band’s annual five night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
The “Say Goodnight To The Bad Buy” Tour will see the band perform full three hour sets comprised of both an entire acoustic and electric set.
