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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.
Free Music Review: Brother's Keeper
Hit: 3 Stars
The guitar riffs smack you right where it counts. Young Rich Robinson has earned a spot on my list of favorite guitarists. The arrangements are well written and produced. The problem I have is that Rich is a sub-par vocalist...to the point of deterring from potentially great tracks. He'd have been wise to use a guest vocalist on much of this disc. Multi layering and lush harmonies do help, but not enough.Free Music Review: GREAT GUITAR, TERRIBLE SINGING.
Hit: 2 Stars
Rich Robinson may be a great guitar player (though i always thought Marc Ford better) but as a lead singer he sinks! His vocals are flat and so irritatinly weak that what could of been a great rock album grates on your nerves by mid way through. Great riffs, a little too much overkill (three minutes per track would of been preferable) abound, but by the end you get the feeling that with brother Chris on vocals this would had made a great Black Crowes album. Shame!