The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion

I’ve never known such an improvement from a debut to a second album, as with The Black Crowes “Southern Harmony..”, don’t get me wrong “Shake your..” is a decent record, is just all the songs are quite simple & there are a couple of forgettable tracks on the album.From the opening chords of “Sting me” you know that your in for something really special, the song writing has matured considerable & the improvement in the musicianship is a revelation.Full of classic songs, “Remedy” is an instant anthem, “Thorn in my Pride” is deeply soulful & Bob Marley’s “Only time will tell” finishes off the album with a nice laid back or most jamming-on-the-back-porch feel.You also get two bonus tracks, “Sting me (slow)" it does what it says on the tin, pretty close to the album version but slowed down giving the song more of a blues feel, but considering the amount of slower tracks on the album, I think the fast version was the right choice. Second is a Rolling Stones style version of "99lbs", ok if nothing special.So “Southern Harmony..” really punched the band into the big league when it came to musical credibility, which carried on with their next two albums “Amorica” & “3 Snakes..”.

I bought this album on it release date all those years ago (back in 1992) , I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard back then and it's still in my top 3 albums of all time. Nothing even close to a weak song on it. This was the Crowes at their very very best.Buy...Listen...Learn...Love...

How has it taken me so long to discover such great music? Great bluesy rock with style and real presence.

Their best, really good soulful rock music.

A modern (well early 90's) classic.

I listen to every type of music, have more than a thousand CD's, numerous DVD-Audio, SACD discs etc. I'm a muso.I must have played this CD 4-5 times per day for about 12 months when it came out, and after getting the old disc out of the dusty case I realised I've been missing something special that I've found again. Most times when you go back to a CD that you played so much a long time ago it has aged badly, but this CD wasn't of its time when it was recorded, so its timeless.It's one of the greatest albums ever recorded. It sounds so warm, soulful, funky, raw and honest.

Carrying on the torch from The Doobies/Allman Brothers/Skynyrd, The Crowes reach almost perfection with this fabulous collection of rockers, ballads and down-home melodies. Chris Robinson was the best white blues singer of his day and his lyrics are something else...Hotel Illness, Sometimes Salvation, Bad Luck Blue Eyes, My Morning Song...backed up with a band of top class musicians playing their brains out. (Shame about the Bob Marley cover at the end though). I honestly think this is the best rock and roll album of all time. Any self respecting rock and roller has to have this in their collection.

Demasiado trde

Excellent follow-up to Shake Your Moneymaker. A variety of soundscapes! Can't wait to see them on tour if this virus ever dies down... :(

Je ne connaissais presque pas ce groupe au nom pourtant très mémorisable . La pochette ressemble diablement à celle du deuxième album de The Band (  The Band  ).Un peu southern rock body-buildé, parfois limite hard, ça a du style et de la tenue. Les compos sont bonnes, plutôt longues et assez variées et cerise sur le gâteau, la rythmique est très bonne, éminemment groovy, ça pulse un max ! Chris Robinson le chanteur a un timbre de voix qui rappelle un peu celui de Rod Stewart, mais qui me plait d'avantage que celui de l'écossais. Marc Ford, le principal guitariste soliste assure bien, mais avec un son un peu trop sec, manquant de reverb à mon goût.L'album mérite largement ses cinq étoiles mais je le trouve un peu fatiguant à écouter à la longue, les guitares saturées sont un peu trop omniprésentes, on aimerait parfois souffler un peu.Très très au-dessus de la moyenne de ce que j'ai pu écouter dans toutes les productions rock des années 90. The Band

Ya tenía ganas de pillar este disco...lo tenía en vinilo y es una maravilla.Además,vaya precio,así da gusto.Un placer de compra.

５曲目のサムタイムズサルベーションが泣ける！他も渋い曲が沢山！ノリのいいロックな曲もたまにあるだがだいたい落ち着いた雰囲気！

I wore out the cassette copy of this I bought on my way home from school the day it was released back in '92. I since purchased it on CD, which long ago was scratched beyond playability. I was hoping to find the original digipak release and was lucky to score one in mint condition! It bummed me out when they remastered the first four albums for "Sho' 'Nuff," and yet again in '02 and I believe in '07. I wanted to avoid these versions like the plague, as you can't improve on perfection.This album starts of rockin' with "Sting Me" and "Remedy." A pair heavy, funky, soulful rockers. Then things slow down a bit with "Thorn" and "Bad Luck, Blue Eyes." Things get a bit darker, but no less rocking with numbers like "Black Moon Creeping" and "My Morning Song." "Sometimes Salvation" is the heaviest tune of the collection. It's a slower, sloppy Rich Robinson riff featuring a wicked hot and juicy solo from Marc Ford. "Hotel Illness" is a rootsy mid-tempo rocker, and "Time Will Tell," a Bob Marley cover, is a bit of filler to finish the record.Devotees of the first album, "Shake Your Money Maker" may be disappointed by the lack of pop-friendly songs on this one. But if you like heavy, funky, rockin' grooves and soulful screaming you'll really dig it. In my opinion this is the sound of a band coming off of huge chart success finding their true sound. This album is said to have been recorded over the course of a single weekend, and definitely has that loose type of sound. Awesome album.