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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
First CD I ever owned, February 4, 2001
A friend bought this disc for me when I got my first cd player. Although I had only heard a handful of Black Crowes tunes before, I played the cd constantly since, well, it was my only one. Almost 10 years later, "Southern Harmony.." remains one of my favorite albums of all time.This cd is what rock and roll is all about. It's gritty, it's bluesy and it grabs your attention and holds it until the very last song. My all-time favorite "Thorn in My Pride" starts out slow and ends up like a gospel choir coming at you full speed ahead. "Bad Luck Blue Eyes.." is the quintessential blues ballad, served up with a pack of smokes and some sloe gin. "My Morning Song" touches on every emotion you have and when you think that you just can't take any more, Chris Robinson leads you right into the soulful cover of Bob Marley's "Time Will Tell." In between, every single song does it's individual part to come together and make one of the most finely-tuned albums of the decade. "Southern Harmony..." captures the true spirit of the Black Crowes and the true heart of rock music. This is a must-have album for anyone.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Soul stirring, December 14, 2000
Sometimes i need a fix that only this album can provide. It also begs to be played loud. This album starts off like a great batting lineup with the incredible "Sting Me". Just when you didn't think there could be a better song we are reminded why "Remedy" was the single. Nice Rhodes piano and scatting by Chris. "Thorn In My Pride" is one of the great slower songs as well as the great riff in "Sometimes Salvation". Chris goes gospel as if pleading his case to St. Peter himself. Another favorite is "My Morning Song". This album is only enhanced by the Gospel singers and loosed-bearings endings. It's as inspired as the classic "Every Picture Tells a Story", and is the Crowes best.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An incredible band's best effort - Pure RAWK, June 13, 2000
Yes, that's RAWK, not just rock, but RAWK. From beginning to end, this album blew me away the first time I heard it, and about 1,000 listens later, now that I've heard and realized many of the album's intricacies that were inapparent on first listen, it blows me away even more now. Listen to the intro and through the first verse of Sting Me, the first song, and you'll swear you're listening to the Rolling Stones, with a different, more soulful singer (Chris Robinson). However, these guys can rock in more way than one, which they immediately prove in the next song, Remedy, which has to be my personal favorite Crowes song, with it's incredibly catchy, hard-driven guitar from Rich Robinson, and a great performance from the always superb Chris. The album then mellows down only slightly for the next four songs, but the volume drop only serves to enhance Chris's down-home Southern soul-filled singing, and some incredible lead guitar from Marc Ford, who isn't with the Crowes anymore, but proves here to be an awesome, underrated soloist with a very unique style. Then comes the 7-8-9 combo of Black Moon Creeping, No Speak No Slave, and My Morning Song, which, in my opinion is one of the best 1-2-3 punches for pure rock value in history; think Whole Lotta Love-What Is & What Should Never Be-Heartbreaker from Led Zeppelin II in terms of how hard these three songs rock. As one critic said, Black Moon Creeping features the dirtiest, nastiest guitar tone ever put on vinyl, with a bass-heavy, heavily distorted wah giving the song great grit. However, this tone compares nothing to the wah tone on the following song, No Speak No Slave, during the solo. I literally jumped out of my chair when I heard the wah section of the solo on this track for the first time; absolutely MUST be heard to be believed. The entire song, No Speak No Slave, in fact, NEEDS to be heard; sounds like Zeppelin in their prime. My Morning Song rocks just as hard, and after these three songs you need a break, so the low-key cover of Bob Marley's Time Will Tell will provide you with that to close off the album, reminding you that not only do these guys RAWK, but they make music you can FEEL, with Southern SOUL, which is what Marley had, and is what the Crowes add to not just this track but the whole album. This album, in my opinion, deserves to be right up there with the great rock albums of all time, i.e. Led Zeppelin IV, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon, etc.
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