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The Black Crowes are a blues-oriented hard rock jam band who have sold over 15 million albums and were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World". The band has toured with acts such as Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Jimmy Page, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Oasis, AC/DC and Lenny Kravitz. The Crowes are listed at #92 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

The first incarnation of the band began as Mr. Crowes Garden in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985. Although the Crowes have had many members over the years, the driving force behind the band has always been the brothers Chris & Rich Robinson. In 1989, the rockers, who have been heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rolling Stones, The Faces, The Band, Little Feat, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Southern rock, made a demo cassette tape that got them signed with American Recordings.

The Crowes released their first studio album, Shake Your Money Maker, in 1990. On the strength of singles "Hard to Handle," "She Talks to Angels," "Jealous Again," "Twice as Hard," "Sister Luck" and "Seeing Things," the debut sold over 5 million copies and was certified 5x platinum in 1995. "Hard to Handle" and "She Talks to Angels" both broke the top 30 on the pop charts in 1990, and the crossover appeal of the songs helped catapult The Black Crowes to stardom. In 1991, The Black Crowes helped momentum of their sales by opening for ZZ Top in addition to taking part in the Monsters of Rock tour, with AC/DC, Metallica, Mötley Crüe and Queensryche.

After replacing guitarist Jeff Cease with Marc Ford, the Crowes released their second album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion in 1992. (This album title is a tribute to the shape note anthology of the same name that has been sung annually at The Big Singing in Benton, Kentucky since 1884.) The effort spawned the singles "Remedy," "Thorn In My Pride," "Sting Me," "Sometimes Salvation" and "Hotel Illness," and in 1995 the disc was certified double platinum (sales of over 2 million records). Because of the prevalence of studio musician Chuck Leavell's piano and organ parts on the first release, the band recruited a keyboardist of their own, Eddie Harsch, to play on this album. He became a permanent member of the group beginning on the "High As the Moon" tour. The spelling of his last name is often listed as "Hawrysch."

In 1994 the now six-piece offered up Amorica after scrapping the unreleased album "Tall" the previous year. Though Amorica failed to produce a hit single, the album still eventually reached "gold" status, selling over 500,000 copies. Controversially, the album cover featured a photo showing a woman's pubic hair.

In mid-2007, The Black Crowes announced the release of their first new album some time in 2008 on an undisclosed label. New original songs played live in the past year (and thus possible inclusions on the record) include "Cold Boy Smile," "Magic Rooster Blues" "Share My Blanket," "Cut From the Shadow," "Late Nights Again," "It's All For You" and "It Takes One To Know One." It was announced in May 2007 that a CD release of the Los Angeles Brothers of a Feather acoustic performances would be hitting the shelves in mid-July via the Eagle Rock Entertainment label.

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