Latest Release
- MAY 8, 2024
- 3 Songs
- Shake Your Money Maker · 1990
- Shake Your Money Maker · 1990
- The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion · 1992
- Shake Your Money Maker · 1990
- Shake Your Money Maker · 1990
- Apple Music Nashville Sessions · 2024
- Happiness Bastards · 2024
- The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion · 1992
- The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion · 1992
- Lions · 2001
Essential Albums
- “That's our earliest work,” Chris Robinson says of The Black Crowes' blockbuster 1990 debut. “We're in the studio for the first time. What do we know about microphones? A song like 'She Talks to Angels,' we just wanted to record it. We wanted the acoustic guitar to sound like 'Wild Horses.'” With Chris' younger brother Rich playing guitar, the band wore their retro-rock influences on the sleeves of their leather jackets on the singles “Jealous Again,” “Hard to Handle,” and the indeed Stones-indebted “She Talks to Angels,” even if their influences were more varied than that. “We always liked roots music,” Chris says. “My dad was a folk singer. Bob Dylan was always in our lives. But we are kids of that Urgh! A Music War movie—we loved The Cramps and Dead Kennedys and Black Flag. We stayed away from things that seemed like corporate rock.” While the band may have cycled through styles and personnel in the decades since, the brothers relished the chance to revisit their formative days for this deluxe edition, which unearths 10 demos, covers, and alternate versions alongside a 14-song live set. “Chris and I got away from Shake Your Money Maker for decades. I hadn't listened to that record since the '90s probably,” says Rich. “It was cool to bring out these different versions of songs and things that we hadn't heard in 30 years, literally.”
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- With' two volatile brothers upfront, the Crowes revitalized Southern rock.
- Classic Southern and British rock shaped the band's retro sound.
- The band's earthy hard rock turns psychedelic.
- Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
- Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
Live Albums
More To Hear
- The brothers join Zane live in the studio.
- On the Beastie Boys, Joe Strummer, and The Black Crowes.
- Jenn is joined by The Black Crowes' Chris and Rich Robinson.
- The Black Crowes drummer on how it all got started.
About The Black Crowes
Formed by Marietta, GA-raised brothers Chris and Rich Robinson in the mid-’80s, The Black Crowes have made a career out of being ahead of their time. The group’s surprise stardom in 1990 challenged pop metal’s commercial supremacy a full year before grunge broke. Fueled by a swaggering rendition of Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle,” their debut, Shake Your Money Maker, was a runaway success that inspired more than a few rock acts to ditch hair spray and spandex for vintage Rolling Stones and Faces albums. On subsequent titles like 1992’s The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion and 1998’s By Your Side, The Black Crowes serve up an earthy throwback sound that preceded the retro-blues-rock boom of the late 2000s. Even when the brothers started devoting more time to their solo careers, the rock veterans once again proved prescient when 2009’s jammy Before the Frost… Until the Freeze helped pave the way for a 21st-century resurgence in Grateful Dead-style lysergic Americana.
- ORIGIN
- Marietta, GA, United States
- FORMED
- 1989
- GENRE
- Rock