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Rich Robinson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Emergent
• ASIN: B0002MPQTG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The SOUND!, August 25, 2004

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C. S. Kolenda (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paper (Audio CD)

This is the signature Sound the Black Crowes made themselves famous with back in the early nineties. It's what was missing from the various solo efforts of members of the BC since the hiatus in 2001. Although some of those efforts were outstanding Rich brings it front and center again with this solo Rich Robinson work. Now before you think its just rehashed BC material, it's not. Rich has written and is performing a ongoing saga of updated and modern writing and playing that is a natural progression of his earlier work. And wait! He sings!. With an honesty and tone that fits these songs to a T. With Rich's well known wall of sound and some of the best use of riffs in rock and roll, this CD will make you a fan, if you wasn't already. Like a lot of BC fans we were waiting for this solo cd from Rich and were not disappointed with quality. Its time to be come aquainted with the writer of the music that made the 90's so great. Let me introduce you, This is Rich Robinson, fantastic writer of music, guitar player, the riff master and now singer. Rich Robinson....the Solo artist.Bravo

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Familiar and Brilliant, July 30, 2005

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Charles A Galupi "music snob" (Euless, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paper (Audio CD)

So you were disappointed by Chris Robinson's solo albums? They seemed interesting, but not ... complete? Like Chris needed a band that understood him? Well friends I have the antidote and the cure and the acorn did not fall far from the tree...

From the first stuttering riffs of 'Yesterday I Saw You' on Rich Robinson's PAPER it's as clear who is the soul of the Black Crowes. As clear as the difference in the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards solo records.

What can you expect? Well the first three cuts are walls of swirling guitars; 'Yesterday I Saw You','Eneny' and 'Leave It Alone' picking up where the Crowes LIONS left off. 'Know Me' and it's slide and lower production value harken back earlier days sounding like a lost late era Zeppelin track. 'Forgiven Song' and it's slow funeral speed, pedal steel and fiddles play like Jerry Jeff Walker's Lost Gonzo Band doing the Stones 'Moonlight Mile.' 'Veil' is a cousin to the Crowes 'Evil Eye,' and 'When You Will' to 'Non Fiction.'

But with 'Places' Rich explores an evil feedback drenched overdriven riff unlike anything ever heard on his other band's records. Not Black Sabbath heavy, not CCR swampy, it's just a plodding and insistant groove that just drags you under with it. The mood is lightened by 'Begin' and it's pre-'Joker' Steve Miller sound with nice keyboards by Crowes mainstay Eddie Hawrsch. 'Falling Away' is a great slow acoustic ballad over which Rich lays some of his signature blues bending. The keyboard driven 'Baby' and 'Oh No' allow Rich some open tuning slide time. 'Answers' with a string quartet in the background and 'It's Over' are rhythym driven tracks,'Answers' being a bouncing rhythym and 'It's Over' following a turnaround waltz.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The brains of The Black Crowes...EDIT ADDED!, November 7, 2004

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JR Media Freak (Central WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paper (Audio CD)

Rich Robinson has created an album of music that I absolutely love. I can't put this album down. It really is hard to describe how musical this album is. It has such feeling, emotion, love, energy and intellect. In the past (even though they are one of my favorites) I think The Black Crowes were trying a little too hard to "create" a legacy like their forefathers...Led Zeppelin, but listening to Rich Robinson's solo work makes me realize that he isn't trying. Rich Robinson really has the talent and creative prowess already, and he is just expressing and sharing his talents. He should continue to write and record solo work. However, I love The Black Crowes so much that I want them to get back together...especially after LIONS was such an unbelievable album in its own right. Rich, you are my latest and greatest musical hero!!!

EDIT ADDED (1/18/08)...I was looking for something up beat and fun rockin' to listen to today. I scrolled through the artists in my iPod and came across Rich Robinson which caught my eye. I am listening to this album again, and man it is so good. Great guitar work in the vein of The Black Crowes or bluesy roots rock. Rich has a nice tone to guitar playing...this album sounds so warm and inviting with rich textures of guitar tones...the guitars all sound like vintage equipment including warm tube amps and or acoustic guitars made of solid American wood...GREAT STUFF!!! If you like The Black Crowes, then this album is a must have!