Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker (Reis)
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Artist: Black CrowesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- BLACK CROWES SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER
- Twice as Hard
- Sister Luck
- Seeing Things
- Thick N' Thin
- Struttin' Blues
- Don't Wake Me [*]
- Mercy, Sweet Moan [*]
Free Music Notes for Shake Your Money Maker (Reis)
Free Music Review: A Good, Solid Debut Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Shake Your Money Maker - (2007) 12 Tracks (2 bonus) ***** (54:58)
This is a band that I've known from their very beginnings. It was early 1990 when the first single off the Shake Your Money Maker debut hit the local air-waves in my hometown. I still remember what first caught my attention about the song Jealous Again. I was driving home from work and the song came on the local rock radio station, and as I listened to it I thought to myself "that's that new band the Black Crowes I've been hearing about." You have to remember that back then, Guns `n Roses was really big, along with a lot of other Hard Rock bands that were taking up most of the space on rock radio. I was used to hearing Motley Crue, Cinderella, Tesla, Ozzy Ozbourne, etc., with all their booming drums and loud multiple guitar attacks that seemed to surround the listener with a sonic wall of sound.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere came the Black Crowes with Jealous Again. Half-way thru the song there is a break when nothing but Rich Robinson's guitar is coming thru the left speaker, and then, Chris Robinson's vocals come in on the right. Nice and clear; a clean, "uncluttered" sound. And that's when it hit me. I thought, "Wow, that's different." It really was a breath of fresh air coming out of my car stereo speakers and reaching my ears. Among all that late 80's into the early 90's Hard Rock came this little band from Atlanta with a refreshing style that we had not heard in a long time. Soon after that I bought the cd and began listening to the whole thing. Not surprising, I liked every song. And so did practically everybody that I played it for.
Shake Your Money Maker holds a lot of nice memories for me of my young adult life and the beginning of a very enjoyable long-term listening experience that I have shared with this band from that time until now. With their recent release of the bands 8th studio album "Before the Frost", I realized that I have been listening to the Black Crowes for almost 20 years now! (Boy, am I getting old) and that I had not ever reviewed their early albums. So this is the first of six reviews of the Crowes early catalog.
Shake Your Money Maker is a good, solid debut album. Maybe not as good as Boston's first album or Bad Company, but it has become quite a classic that everyone should own. It contains some really great blues-rock songs, like Sister Luck, Seeing Things, and the ever popular She Talks to Angels. There is really not a bad track on the whole album. Thick n' Thin might be the weakest track, but it's still fun to listen to. This album eventually went on to sell over 3 million copies. That's really good for any debut album, and I think that part of the album's popularity is that it was actually a "cross-over" album. Oh it got plenty of exposure on classic rock radio stations as "southern rock" music, but also had just enough of a "country" feel to it to be popular with that crowd too. With its mix of rock, blues, and just a little bit of country, this album definitely had mass appeal.
So there you have it. This is where it all began. If you don't own this album, you should. If you have not heard it, welcome back to planet earth. Go and borrow it from any of your music loving friends. It should not be hard to track down. Shake Your Money Maker was originally released in 1990. This review is for the 2007 Remaster that has two bonus tracks: Don't Wake Me and an acoustic version of She Talks to Angels. Don't Wake Me is a nice upbeat rocker that fits right in with the albums other tracks, and the acoustic version of She Talks to Angels is really nice. Lots of piano along with acoustic guitar and Chris's soulful vocals. Highly Recommended. Of course the best was yet to come, just over two years later the band would release the most popular album of their career, the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.
Shake Your Money Maker (Reis) Poster
Out-of-print in the US! Import pressing of their stellar 1990 album. Features the original 10 tracks. Warner.Few young bands have embraced classic rock as fully as the Black Crowes. Their debut album features a bar-band stomp rooted in the back catalogs of the Rolling Stones, Free, the Faces, any number of early-'70s hard rockers. The secret of their success has been singer Chris Robinson's lanky rock-star poses matched with a voice as raw as whisky and as inviting as velvet. Add a healthy rhythm section accentuated by producer (and Rick Rubin protégé) George Drakoulias and you've got the dynamic shuffle of their hits ("Jealous Again" and the title track). While the band clearly likes to party, they're even more convincing as the Sunday-morning comedown of "She Talks to Angels." --Rob O'Connor
Few young bands have embraced classic rock as fully as the Black Crowes. Their debut album features a bar-band stomp rooted in the back catalogs of the Rolling Stones, Free, the Faces, and any number of early '70s hard rockers. The secret of their success has been singer Chris Robinson's lanky rock-star poses matched with a voice as raw as whisky and as inviting as velvet. Add a healthy rhythm section accentuated by producer (and Rick Rubin protégé) George Drakoulias and you've got the dynamic shuffle of their hits ("Jealous Again" and the title track). While the band clearly likes to party, they're even more convincing with their Sunday-morning comedown, "She Talks to Angels." --Rob O'Connor
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