The Black Crowes - Warpaint
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Artist: The Black CrowesBrand: BLACK CROWES
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Silver Arrow
Soundtracks:
- Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution
- Walk Believer Walk
- Oh Josephine
- Evergreen
- Wee Who See The Deep
- Locust Street
- Movin' On Down The Line
- Wounded Bird
- God's Got It
- There's Gold In Them Hills
- Whoa Mule
Free Music Notes for Warpaint
Free Music Review: The Black Crowes win their latest war!
Hit: 5 Stars
My relationship with the Black Crowes has always been rocky at best. Their first two albums, "Shake Your Money Maker" and "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion," were excellent. I really love that blend of southern rock and blues. Like any burgeoning band, I looked forward to their next release. Then, "Amorica" was released and I enjoyed most of the album (especially the epic blues ballad closer "Descending"). However, two years later, "Three Snakes & One Charm" was released and I felt I had lost the Crowes I had loved. Something had changed in the boys from Georgia. With the exception of maybe two songs, the album stunk. I was so discouraged that I never really gave their next efforts - "By Your Side" and "Lions," respectively - a listen. I gave their team-up with Jimmy Page (Live at the Greek) a try and was disappointed yet again; not that anything's wrong with that album, it just wasn't for me. I became so broken-hearted over the changes that I thought the band had gone through that I hastily made up my mind that they were lost into the abysmal machinations of the music industry.
Then came 2008. The band had not released a studio album for seven years; I hadn't really heard too much on them with the exception of frontman Chris Robinson divorcing from his overrated actress of a wife, Kate Hudson. Out of the blue - two weeks before it was released - I heard of them releasing their next album, "Warpaint." I had briefly heard the album opener on the radio and, from what I had heard, it sounded good. So, despite my staggering disappointment over popular artists releases lately (see Jack Johnson and Lenny Kravitz), I decided to give the Crowes a much-deserved second chance. The first track and their first single, "Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution," finds frontman Robinson in top form as his vocals slink together in perfect harmony with the southern rock guitars. The chorus is catchy and you soon find yourself tapping your foot to the music. Let me just say this as an announcement for the entire album: The Crowes channel early Rolling Stones in the best way possible. But this is no Stones clone album; they channel other artists all the while putting their own touch of jam blues southern rock into it. The next song, "Walk Believer Walk," sounds nothing like a Stones song, but more like straight-up blues gospel (unfortunately, without any choir). But that works 'cause there is no room for a choir here as Rich Robinson and Luther Dickinson's guitars are two separate voices all their own and fill up this slow stomper with enough to satisfy the listener.
"Oh Josephine" is a blues ballad that returns to early Stones and finds Chris Robinson again in top form as ballads often take more vocal strain than fast-moving rockers. Adam MacDougall's piano adds the perfect touch at all the right moments and the music just flows. It's a great song and one of my many favorites on this album. The following song, "Evergreen," is probably my least favorite on the album but still a decent song. The guitars are piercing and the drumming is perfectly timed which makes the music good enough, but this song just seems to be one of those filler blues songs that I hear all too often on most contemporary blues albums nowadays. Luckily, next comes "Wee Who See the Deep." This album starts off with riffing guitars and jam-band piano as Robinson's vocals make the song the band's own. This is true Crowes music and it really picks up in the middle of the song as the guitar and piano come together for one great jam.
The sixth track is "Locust Street" and the best way to describe this gem with its mandolin-heavy music is that one can practically hear early Rod Stewart (think back to his Every Picture Tells a Story) singing this one. The lyrics are wonderful and fit nicely with the semi-ballad music. It's one of my many favorites and it leads into, hands down, my favorite track on the album, "Movin' On Down the Line." The song begins with semi-creepy chanting from Robinson and others before breaking into Robinson's jumpy words. Then, when the chorus hits, the band breaks out without going too crazy. After all, they have to save something for the musical climax. And, believe me, you'll know it when you hear it. That's what makes this song - and the Black Crowes - so good at what they do. The chorus to the next song, "Wounded Bird," sounds an awful lot like Aerosmith's "Avant Garden" from the 2001 album Just Push Play. The best parts in this song are when Robinson is rounding out the chorus with the line "Set your mind to fly," as well as when the bridge hits.
"God's Got It" was not written by the Crowes but by Reverend Charlie Jackson. And it's infectious, rollicking foot-stomper of a song is probably one of the best gospel blues songs I've heard in a long time. It sounds like something Aerosmith (namely Joe Perry) would record; it strikes heavy resemblances to their Honkin' On Bobo slide guitar testament "Jesus Is On The Mainline," only with a faster tempo. I usually am turned off by any religious-type material on rock albums but this one is not bad at all. Soon comes "There's Gold in Them Hills." I hear Elton John's 1971 Tumbleweed Connection as a major influence from the honky-tonk piano, yearning young man blues-singing and traditional cowboy, gold-rush Western lyrics that fill that album. This is a great ballad to the old West and I can tell that the closing song that approaches has to be something distinct and decent enough to end out the album. And all of that is found in the next song, "Whoa Mule." Slightly faster then "Hills" and with a majority of acoustic guitars, "Whoa Mule" continues the old West theme with its lyrics, but takes the song (as well as the album) into a metaphoric message of whatever the Crowes are looking for, they know they'll "get there someday," together. The song balances fictional storytelling with the very non-fictional band's feelings about reuniting (i.e. "We're dirty but we're dreaming"), and I think it works out perfectly. It makes a great closer for the album and before I know it, it's beginning all over again and I'm ready to make the trip with them.
"Warpaint" is one of the best rockers out so far this year and now I feel filled with hope again that the Black Crowes have retained their bearings and are musically back on track. This album may sound like other famous part artists but it works out quite well for the Crowes. I say, keep it up! This album is southern jam blues rock at its best. We'll see how the future fares for the Crowes. However, if this album is any preface, then they've got great things in store for fans as well as the rest of the music world.
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