Shake Your Money Maker (album)

Occupation

  • Vocals: Chris Robinson
  • Guitar: Rich Robinson
  • Guitar: Jeff Cease
  • Drums: Steve Gorman
  • Bass: Johnny Colt

Production

  • George Drakoulias

Studios

  • Soundscape Studios, Atlanta
  • Chapel Studios, Paramount Studios, Grand Master Studios, Los Angeles

$ hake Your Money Maker is the debut album by the Black Crowes, known as the most rock ' n ' roll rock ' n ' roll band in the world. A classic blues song by Elmore James bears the same name. The album reached # 4 on the Billboard charts. The biggest hit is likely to be the cover version of Otis Redding's Hard To Handle, but also the singles Twice As Hard, Jealous Again, and especially the role played by acoustic guitar ballad She Talks To Angles reached high level of awareness. The album was honored by the Recording Industry Association of America in May 1995 with a five- times platinum.

  • 4.1 Jealous Again
  • 4.2 Hard To Handle
  • 4.3 Twice As Hard
  • 4.4 Seeing Things
  • She Talks To Angels 4.5

Genesis

In 1989, the band was still wearing the name of Mr. Crowe 's Garden at the time, a recording contract with American Recordings (then Def American), the label of producer Rick Rubin. Although the band already existed for some years, the brothers Chris and Rich Robinson wrote twelve new plays, within six weeks, along with Hard To Handle, a cover version of originating also from Georgia, Otis Redding, and She Talks To Angels, the only older piece of the band, were pre-produced with George Drakoulias and finally taken up within one and a half months and mixed.

Title list

Except Hard To Handle all songs by Chris and Rich Robinson were written. The Title 11 and 12 were added only for the re-release as part of the Sho'Nuff Box Set. The not listed in the track list of the album title Live Too Fast Blues / Mercy, Sweet Moan is in each case the last song

Staff

Band

  • Chris Robinson: vocals
  • Young Rich Robinson: Guitar
  • Jeff Cease: Guitar
  • Steve Gorman: Drums & Cymbals
  • Johnny Colt: Bass

Additional musicians

  • Chuck Leavell: Keyboards
  • Brendan O'Brien: A Potpourri of Instruments
  • Laura Creamer: background vocals

Rod

  • Producer: George Drakoulias
  • Sound engineer: Brendan " Bud " O'Brien
  • Executive Producer: Rick Rubin

Singles

Five tracks were released as singles from the album. Except for the piece Waiting Guilty all B- sides were live or acoustic versions of album tracks or live recorded cover. The singles have been inserted in different regions and on different formats with different B- sides. In each case, all the B-sides that appeared for each single without the respective recordings all the pieces must be included.

Jealous Again

  • Release Date: February 1990
  • B-sides: She Talks To Angels ( live)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • Waiting Guilty
  • Jealous Again ( acoustic)
  • She Talks To Angels ( acoustic)

Hard To Handle

  • Release Date: 1990
  • B-sides: Waiting Guilty
  • Jealous Again ( acoustic)
  • Twice As Hard ( remix)
  • Sister Luck ( live)
  • Stare It Cold (live)
  • Twice As Hard ( live)
  • Dreams ( live) ( Gregg Allman ) - Allman Brothers Band Cover

Twice As Hard

  • Release Date: August 1990
  • B-sides: Jealous Guy ( live) ( John Lennon)
  • Jealous Again ( live)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • Jealous Again ( acoustic)

Seeing Things

  • Release Date: September 1990
  • B-sides: Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • She Talks To Angels ( live)
  • Sister Luck ( live)
  • Hard To Handle (live)
  • Twice As Hard ( live)
  • Jealous Again ( live)

She Talks To Angels

  • Release Date: 1990
  • B-sides She Talks To Angels ( edit)
  • Jealous Again ( acoustic)
  • She Talks To Angels ( acoustic)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)

Find out more

The Elmore James Blues Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes have recorded only from November 1994 their program. In 1999, she published the piece on the album recorded with Jimmy Page Live At The Greek.

At the beginning of the recording sessions, the band was still called Mr. Crowes Garden, but changed their name in the course in The Black Crowes.

During the sessions, 14 pieces were recorded. You're Wrong was released as a B-side, whereas Charming measurement has not been published and played only once live. 1998, published as a bonus track Do not Wake Me was never performed before an audience.

Almost all the pieces were composed shortly before the sessions, exceptions are the cover version of Hard To Handle and the title She Talks To Angels, which was the only piece since 1988 in the program of Mr. Crowe's Garden.

The band was accompanied ( piano / Hammond organ) in the studio of the Southern-/Blues-Rock-Urgestein Chuck Leavell on keyboards. Leavell was since the 1970s, a member of the Allman Brothers Band, toured with the Rolling Stones and played on Eric Clapton's Unplugged, inter alia, CD piano.

Record label American Recordings (record label) Genre Singing Chris Robinson (singer) The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Billboard 200 Georgia (U.S. state) Electronic keyboard Unplugged (Eric-Clapton-Album) Amorica Three Snakes and One Charm By Your Side (The Black Crowes album) Lions (Album) Warpaint (The Black Crowes album)
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