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The Black Crowes
Shake Your Money Maker

[Album]
13 February 1990
Rock

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Library Status Complete FLAC 16bit/44.1khz CD

TheBigBlack Review
(2 December 2023)

Rating - 4 Stars

If you were asked to describe The Black Crowes debut album in one word, it wouldn't be hard - swagger. Full of the grooves and rhythms that made mid-period Rolling Stones albums so listenable, the album showcases the new band with punch, and was a raised middle finger to anyone who dared to say southern rock was dead. 'Jealous Again' is the epitome of a great rock song, and exudes the star power this band exhibited with ease. The band makes Otis Reading's 'Too Hard To Handle' their own, and the classic Nicky Hopkins style piano in 'Thick 'n Thin' are just perfect. At such a young age Chris Robinson's voice proves perfect for the music, drifting with a world-weary charm, and brother Rich has clearly studied the guitar greats of the era they both so perfectly emulate. Slower songs like 'Seeing Things' and 'She Talks With Angels' (eluding to the dangers of heroin) are great rock ballads, but don't quite cross that barrier into all-time classics, lacking the hook a good rock ballads needs. A good debut album is everything in rock, and The Black Crowes are perfect proof of this, bursting onto the scene with such impact that they are still around rocking today.
Tracks:  
(1/1) 1.
The Black Crowes - Twice As Hard (04:11)
(1/1) 2.
The Black Crowes - Jealous Again (04:37)
(1/1) 3.
The Black Crowes - Sister Luck (05:15)
(1/1) 4.
The Black Crowes - Could I've Been So Blind (03:46)
(1/1) 5.
The Black Crowes - Seeing Things (05:21)
(1/1) 6.
The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle [Otis Reading cover] (03:09)
(1/1) 7.
The Black Crowes - Thick n' Thin (02:45)
(1/1) 8.
The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels (05:31)
(1/1) 9.
The Black Crowes - Struttin' Blues (04:11)
(1/1) 10.
The Black Crowes - Stare It Cold (05:16)
(1/1) 11.
The Black Crowes - Live Too Fast Blues / Mercy, Sweet Moan (01:08) Hidden track.

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