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Southern Harmony And Musical Companion

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Right from the early 70's but made in the 90's Great album. It's rock, hard, bluesy a bit of everything. Great vocal on track 5 : Sometimes Salvation.

WOW!!! you don't have this CD either??? What are you waiting for? This CD is filled with Great Tracks. It starts with a power song "Sting Me" followed by the Black Crowes classic "Remedy". Wait.. that's not all.. "Thorn in My Pride" is follows. WOW!! that's three great tracks in a row! This CD is filled with other great Black Crowes tracks such as "Hotel Illness, Black Moon Creeping, Sometimes Salvation, Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye, My Morning Song and No Speak No Slave"
If you don't have this CD in you collection.. then where have you been all you life. You are really missing a great peice of Rock History!!! GET IT!!

A little less concise than the Black Crowes' excellent debut album, "The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion" doesn't feature quite as many obvious singles as its predecessor.

It's still a pretty good album, though.
Opening with the gritty hard rock of "Sting Me", "Harmony" mixes Rolling Stones-like rockers with Faces-like ballads, and while the production is often too dense and messy and, well, grunge-like (ew!), most of the songs hold up quite well.
The two best-selling singles off "Harmony" ("Remedy" and the ballad "Thorn In My Pride") were only minor Billboard hits, and none of them cracked the top 40, but the album itself debuted at #1, and that's a pretty good picture of "Harmony". It's a solid album with very few bad songs, although if truth be told there aren't too many truly excellent ones, either.

"Harmony" is not an album filled with hits, and overall it doesn't hold up quite as well as 1990's well-crafted "$hake Your Moneymaker". But it is still better than what the Crowes have been putting out since the mid-90s.
3 stars.

This is an awesome CD. Every song is a winner. My personal favorite is Hotel Illness with the great harmonica work, but I do not fast forward thru any of the songs. If you like the Stones/Led Zeppelin/Allman Bros/Lynyrd Skynyrd you will love this cd. Whenever I can't decide what I am in the mood to listen to, I put this on.....

Not enough can be said about the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (an apt title). But I'll try. This is the album the Rolling Stones wish they could have made, during their Southern/Country excursions -- not to knock the Stones at all, this album just rocks. Somewhere on the Family Tree of Rock, there's a branch that ends with this exquisite flower of an album. Any time I see a magazine or whatever with the "Top 100" rock albums, if the SHaMC isn't in the Top 20, that list is garbage.

Throughout the tracks, the Crowes reach full groove -- filling all the sonic space. The musicianship is awesome and it's clear the band was enjoying this time in the studio. Chris Robinson's energy is at typical peak, and I find his singing is filled with immense warmth and passion, ironic considering almost all of the lyrics appear to be bitter jabs (a' la Dylan) against a former lover. After years of returning to this one, it's clear it meets the ultimate test of Album Rock, which is improvement over time, like a fine wine.

This is the definitive modern southern rock album. This band followed the path paved by the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Charlie Daniels(who lives a few mins from me)and they showed that the bluesy rock was still alive and thriving in the age of grunge. This is a great album to compliment any rock fan's collection. The guitar licks are tasty, the vocals soar and the bass and drum work as one throbbing force. On most of the songs a gospel choir is added to spice up the mix. Anyways great album!

Just buy it. Doesn't get better than this.

This opening line tells you everything you need to know. Lock up your daughters, batten down the hatches and get ready for a ho-down. The Black Crowes are here to kick your ass.

It's rockin', rollin' and down-right cool. And I mean REAL cool. Take four southern gentlemen and add attitude, whiskey, no nonsense song writing, fantastic guitars and a vocalist who sings like he means it and what you end up with is one of the best straight ahead, boogie-woogie rock albums of the 1990s.

If you like to swagger, strut and dance across the kitchen floor - then give it a go.

Certainly a strong contender for their best. Not a bad apple in the bunch. But for me, "Sometime Salvation" alone is worth the price of admission. It's gripping, powerful and incredibly soulful. I love the stop-start tug of the guitars. Chris Robinson is positively gut-wrenching when he sings lines like, "You can lead a horse to water/ But faith is another matter." This song just rips my soul.

In truth, I could gush about any of these songs and they fit together really well, too. There's a running theme of dealing with addiction and related relationships. From the confusion of mixed feelings and the double-edged message in the opener "Sting Me" to the redemption of the Zeppelinesque electric slide of "My Morning Song," this is a completely cohesive, compelling album.
The last song is actually a faithful and soulful cover of Bob Marley's "Time Will Tell" with its poignant lyric, "Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell."

This is ("was" I guess I should say) a top-notch band that played old-school rock with their own modern sensibilities. Even the backup singers on this album are outstanding. I'm here to tell ya, these guys are very, very good.

This is my favorite album of all time! The grooves that the Crowes lay down is unparalleled. It's one of those rare albums that you can put on and listen to all the way through. No filler, no throwaways. The twin intertwining guitars keep it going from start to finish. I would recommend this to anyone interested in guitar rock. Hopefully they will get back together, because their live show is about the only thing better than this!