On Amorica, the Black Crowes finally come into their own, taking their cue from the most relaxed, groove-oriented tracks on their previous album. While the album contains no immediately obvious singles, the songs are the best the band has ever written, stretching out into a hard, jam-oriented, funky lues-rock. The Black Crowes' influences are still discernible -- no band celebrates the glory days of ock culture quite as enthusiastically -- but they use the music of the Stones, the Faces, and Little Feat much the same way the Stones used the music of Chuck Berry: it's a starting point that leads the band into a new direction, incorporating different musical genres, and making the music original. That sense of reinterpretation is what keeps Amorica fresh.
I mentioned in a post last week that I have a metric ton of music sitting idly on my computer, never listened to, doing little more at the moment than taking up space. Much of this music is actually made of full albums that friends or band managers give me. So in an effort to expand my musical knowledge, increase the breadth of sound that this blog covers, and to give meaning to countless gigab...
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I mentioned in a post last week that I have a metric ton of music sitting idly on my computer, never listened to, doing little more at the moment than taking up space. Much of this music is actually made of full albums that friends or band managers give me. So in an effort to expand my musical knowledge, increase the breadth of sound that this blog covers, and to give meaning to countless gigab...
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| 1 Gone |
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| 2 A Conspiracy |
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| 3 High Head Blues |
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| 4 Cursed Diamond |
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| 5 Nonfiction |
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| 6 She Gave Good Sunflower |
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| 7 P. 25 London |
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| 8 Ballad in Urgency |
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| 9 Wiser Time |
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| 10 Downtown Money Waster |
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| 11 Descending |
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