The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are a rock band from Atlanta, Georgia (USA). You have sold more than 15 million albums, and have been, inter alia, of the formerly published in the UK music magazine Melody Maker as "The Most Rock ' n ' Roll Rock ' n ' Roll Band in the World " award. The band was with the likes of Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Jimmy Page, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Oasis and Lenny Kravitz on tour. The Black Crowes are conducted on 92nd of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock " of the U.S. music channel VH1. In this case, their musical style is less of classic Hard Rock, but rather a mix of blues, rock ( ' n'roll ) and Soul. They are known for concerts with some sprawling jam passages.

Career

The band was founded in 1985 as Mr. Crowes Garden in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the years, the band members changed occasionally, but the brothers Chris and Rich Robinson presented always represent the driving force in 1989 they came with the label American Recordings under contract.

In 1990, the band released its first studio album, Shake Your Money Maker. Outstanding items are Hard to Handle, a cover of the original by Otis Redding, She Talks to Angels, Jealous Again, Twice As Hard and Seeing Things. The album has sold over five million times and in 1995 won five times platinum. Hard to Handle and She Talks to Angels reached the top 30 placements of U.S. single charts. Brendan O'Brien, the engineer of the album, had a large share in the sound of the album, which influenced the band sustained.

After the guitarist Jeff Cease was replaced by Marc Ford, published in 1992 the second album entitled The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. The best-known title of the album Remedy, Thorn In My Pride, Sting Me, Sometimes Salvation Hotel Illness and. In 1995, the album was awarded two times platinum. Eddie Hawrysch, who played for the first time on this album piano and the Hammond has since become a permanent member of the band.

In 1994 the album Amorica after the previously unreleased album Tall has been dropped. Because it lacked the album to hit singles, the often undervalued album reached 500,000 sales.

In 1996, finally appeared Three Snakes & One Charm. The recorded in May 1997 album The band has also not been released, but it passed in 2002, perfectly mixed into the hands of fans. ( The band had released a record deal and was considered temporarily at this time. ) After the summer tour in 1997 left Marc Ford (guitar) and Johnny Colt ( bass) the band. Colt 's bassist since 2012 by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Sven pipien came in 1998 as his replacement for the band. In five -member cast 1999 By Your Side was released. Audley Freed (formerly guitarist with Cry Of Love ) became a member of the band. 1999 on tour with Jimmy Page recorded the album Live at the Greek and published the following year.

Their 2001 release, the sixth studio album, Lions, with the singles Lickin ' and Soul Singin. In 2002 the band announced that they would take a break for an indefinite period, although some members were active together in the meantime. Chris Robinson released under Chris Robinson and the New Earth Mud two solo albums (New Earth Mud and This Magnificent Distance). His brother Rich founded a short-term band called Hookah Brown before his own solo album Paper brought out in 2004.

The separation of the band ended in the spring of 2005, during some of the shows in New York's Hammerstein Ballroom end of March. After these shows were sold out very quickly, they played more shows in the U.S.. In the summer the band went with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on tour.

In 2006, the band released their first DVD put out titled Freak 'n' Roll ... Into the Fog, this is a live concert at The Fillmore in San Francisco, launched on 6 August 2005.

On 12 August 2006, the band played at Red Rocks in Morrison / Colorado their last concert of the summer tour of the States, at the same time the last concert with keyboardist and quasi- founding member Eddie Hawrysch ( the only one who played continuously since 1992 with the Robinson brothers ). He was an elder band, his exit was for personal reasons. Keyboardist Rob Clores who already played on Paper with Rich Robinson, will be available from autumn behind the keys. A few weeks later announced Marc Ford on September 5, the phase-out of the band, ( also ) for health reasons ( risk his sobriety ). For only two days later onset of fall tour Paul Stacey was named as a substitute, his commitment was planned from the outset as provisional. The Briton Stacey already played from 2002 to 2004 with Chris Robinson's New Earth Mud band guitar and was in August 2006 with the Robinson brothers in the studio to prepare for the production of a new Black Crowes album.

In late summer 2006, unpublished Tall and tape sessions were made available officially on a double CD under the name The Lost Crowes fans, the resulting 1992 Video Who Killed That Bird Out on Your Window Sill was re-released on DVD and the music of the DVD Freak 'n' roll ... into the Fog came as a double CD in the trade. In early August 2007, the band announced that it has finished recording a new album. Adam MacDougall, who played the keyboards on the recordings, since then has been a permanent member of the band. It replaces the Eddie Harsch short the contracted keyboardist Rob Clores, whose exit was no further comment.

Warpaint, the seventh studio album by the band and their first album in seven years, was released in March 2008. In addition replaces Luther Dickinson, who already played on the recordings guitar, Paul Stacey as the new lead guitarist. Stacey, who acts as a producer of the album, had been in any case only transitional regarded as short-term successor to Marc Ford. Dickinson plays since 1996 in the Blue Band North Mississippi Allstars, for which he is still active as a singer and guitarist.

... Before the Frost, the eighth studio album by the Black Crowes, was virtually taken in five nights at Levon Helm Studio in Woodstock NY in front of a small group of selected fans 'live' and appeared on 1 September 2009. The album includes a bonus ... Until The Freeze, a link to download another nine songs. Eight of them are original compositions, clearly influenced by country music, as well as a cover version of Stephen Stills ' So Many Times. Both albums were produced by Paul Stacey.

In April 2010, the Black Crowes announced on its website that the following album Croweology was recorded only with acoustic instruments and it is a kind of best-of album for the twentieth anniversary of the band, in which the songs are partly re-arranged completely were re-recorded by the band. Here, the double album was to be sold as a thank you to the fans for the price of a regular album. The Tour Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys followed in late summer. Then a longer time and indefinite hiatus was inserted.

During this second intermission, Chris and Rich Robinson pursued each solo projects. Luther Dickinson returned to the North Mississippi Allstars, Adam MacDougall played keyboards in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, the new band the Black- Crowes singer. In December 2012, the Black Crowes have stated that they are going on tour again in 2013. The line-up is similar to that of the years 2008 to 2010 with the exception of Dickinson, who was replaced by guitarist and singer Jackie Greene. In addition, the band's release of the live album Wiser for the Time announced that the recordings gathered on eight LP sides that were recorded in 2010 during five concerts in New York. A release as a digital download is also planned.

Discography

Music

• Shake Your Money Maker ( 1990)
• The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992 )
• Amorica (1994 )
• Three Snakes & One Charm ( 1996)
• Sho 'Nuff ( Box Set ) ( 1998)
• By Your Side ( 1999)
• Greatest Hits 1990-1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress (2000)
• Lions (2001)
• Live (2002)
• Freak 'n' Roll ... Into the Fog ( 2006)
• Warpaint (2008)
• Warpaint Live (2009)
• Before the Frost Until the Freeze ( 2009)
• Croweology (2010)
• Wiser for the Time ( 2013)

Film

• Who Killed That Bird Out on Your Window Sill (1992, video), (2006, DVD re-release )
• Freak 'n' Roll ... Into the Fog ( 2006, DVD)