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 A Good, Solid Debut Album Oct 20, 2009
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.
black crowes 1st one Oct 04, 2009
with sounds of the stones,faces and southern rock all thrown in the crowes put out a wonderfull cd.think their 2nd release might have been just a little better,but this one is needed also.
 Shaking it up with the Black Crowes Sep 20, 2009
It's hard to believe that, as the 80's drew to a close, an album like this was taken to heart and to the charts. A band that mixed the greasier aspects of The Rolling Stones and the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers, along with a little soul and gospel, would fit in during the last dregs of New Wave and the mad popularity of the Jackson clan. But the lo-fi rocking of "Hard to Handle" and "Jealous Again" turned this booze soaked pair of brothers into stars.
Between vocal brother Chris Robinson's approximation of Rod Stewart's vocal swagger and Rich's muscular riffing, "Shake Your Money Maker" snagged an audience of classic rockers that were being under-served in 1990. The band also knew how to make a stoner anthem ballad with "She Talks To Angels," an acoustic classic that captured the band's versatility. Striking, direct and to the point, "Shake Your Money Maker" kicked off a career that The Black Crowes have stuck to ever since. What was dismissed by many as retro some 20 years ago still has the groove of classic rock in its veins, even as such newer albums as Warpaint continue their mastery of the genre.
Just when I thought the 90's was going to be full of depressing suicide rock and techno crap.... Sep 16, 2009
Along came the Crowes. This album restored my faith in rock and roll. Suddenly there was hope that the nineties wouldn't be a complete musical loss. If you're a fan of southern rock with a bluesy touch, this is a great album to give a listen to.
great band Sep 12, 2009
If you like music in the style of the rolling stones or steppenwolf,
you'll like the black crowes. There like a 90's version of those two bands. There's several good songs on this debut album, like "Twice as hard", "Sister luck" "She talks to angels" " Seeing things for the first time", just to name a few. This is the first album I purchased
from the black crowes and I'll tell you it won't be the last. I'm looking to buy "Southern harmony and musical companion", and I also
look forward to buying "Amorica" and "Three snakes and one charm". This is a band that packs a punch and there still going strong. I
give this album four stars.
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