The Black Crowes
Biography:Members include Jeff Cease, guitar; Johnny Colt, bass; Marc Ford, guitar; Audley Freed , guitar; Steve Gorman , drums; Eddie Harsh, keyboards; Sven Pipien, bass; Chris Robinson ; divorced from Kate Hudson, lead vocals; Rich Robinson, guitar; Greg Rzab (group member, 2000), bass.During the early 1990s, R&B rock group the Black Crowes catapulted their first record, Shake Your Money Maker–which Rolling Stone’s David Fricke aptly dubbed “a guitar-party cracker that marries white Southern R&B crunch and Anglo cock-strutting attitude in the beloved early-Seventies manner of the Faces and the Rolling Stones”–to multiplatinum sales by playing no frills, old-line rock ‘n’ roll. Throughout 1990 and 1991 they entranced audiences across the United States and Europe opening for Heart, Aerosmith, Robert Plant, and ZZ Top. Following their debut, the Black Crowes released Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, which entered the charts at number one. The group released several successful albums during the mid to late 1990s, including Amorica, Three Snakes and One Charm, By Your Side, and Lions in 2001.The masterminds of one of the few rock debut albums to go platinum in 1990–indeed, it had been a year since a rock band had hit number one on the Billboard album chart–the Atlanta quintet went from relative obscurity to pop celebrity in a matter of months. They topped both Rolling Stone’s 1991 readers and critics polls as Best New American Band, won an Elvis Award for Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the 1991 International Rock Awards, and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist, also in 1991. According to People magazine, after late night television host David Letterman heard the Crowes perform the single “Jealous Again,” led by the Robinson brothers–Chris, a captivating singer and the band’s lyricist, and reserved, guitar-playing Rich–he summed up their improbably wanton success by asking “Isn’t that rock and roll the way God wanted it to be?”Discography:Main ReleasesWarpaint 2008The Lost Crowes 2006Freak ‘N’ Roll… Into The Fog 2006Live 2002Lions 2001Greatest Hits 1990-1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress 2000A Tribute To A Work In Progress… 2000By Your Side 1999Sho’ Nuff 1998Three Snakes And One Charm 1996Amorica [Clean] 1994Amorica [Bonus Tracks] 1994Amorica 1994The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion 1992The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion [Bonus Tracks] 1992Shake Your Money Maker 1989SinglesGoodbye Daughters of the Revolution 2008CompilationsAustin City Limits Music Festival 2005 2006I Am Sam - Music from and inspired by the Motion Picture 2006Ladder 49: Original Soundtrack 2004I Am Sam: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture 2001American Sampler 1998Furthur More 1997Hempilation: Freedom is NORML 1995
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