Rich Robinson - Paper
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Music CD Cover Artist: Rich Robinson Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2004-08-24 Music Label: Emergent Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Paper Album
Free Music Review: Familiar and Brilliant
Hit: 4 Stars
So you were disappointed by Chris Robinson's solo albums? They seemed interesting, but not ... complete? Like Chris needed a band that understood him? Well friends I have the antidote and the cure and the acorn did not fall far from the tree...
From the first stuttering riffs of 'Yesterday I Saw You' on Rich Robinson's PAPER it's as clear who is the soul of the Black Crowes. As clear as the difference in the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards solo records.
What can you expect? Well the first three cuts are walls of swirling guitars; 'Yesterday I Saw You','Eneny' and 'Leave It Alone' picking up where the Crowes LIONS left off. 'Know Me' and it's slide and lower production value harken back earlier days sounding like a lost late era Zeppelin track. 'Forgiven Song' and it's slow funeral speed, pedal steel and fiddles play like Jerry Jeff Walker's Lost Gonzo Band doing the Stones 'Moonlight Mile.' 'Veil' is a cousin to the Crowes 'Evil Eye,' and 'When You Will' to 'Non Fiction.'
But with 'Places' Rich explores an evil feedback drenched overdriven riff unlike anything ever heard on his other band's records. Not Black Sabbath heavy, not CCR swampy, it's just a plodding and insistant groove that just drags you under with it. The mood is lightened by 'Begin' and it's pre-'Joker' Steve Miller sound with nice keyboards by Crowes mainstay Eddie Hawrsch. 'Falling Away' is a great slow acoustic ballad over which Rich lays some of his signature blues bending. The keyboard driven 'Baby' and 'Oh No' allow Rich some open tuning slide time. 'Answers' with a string quartet in the background and 'It's Over' are rhythym driven tracks,'Answers' being a bouncing rhythym and 'It's Over' following a turnaround waltz.