Black Crowes

Stone The Crowes!: It’s The Magpie Salute

By Every Record Tells A Story on August 11, 2018 • ( 1 )

The Black Crowes are long gone. It has been three years since they split, ten years since their last album Warpaint and more than twenty years since their commercial peak when despite everyone else playing grunge or Britpop The Black… Read More ›

Classic Lost Tracks: The Black Crowes: Feathers

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 8, 2014 • ( 3 )

You know when you hear a song that stops you in your tracks? Let me tell you about The Black Crowes’ track “Feathers”….. This was a song I had only ever read about. It was referred to in hushed tones… Read More ›

Foamfoot And Sweet Pickle Salad – The Black Crowes’ Bootleg Recordings

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 23, 2014 • ( 5 )

I’m going to take a quick look at some obscure recordings by The Black Crowes, but if your interest in this band has inexplicably yet to stretch to their officially released recordings (and apparently there are one or two people… Read More ›

The Wonder Of Internet Message Boards: Not Just For Lunatics And Trolls

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 15, 2014 • ( 20 )

The Internet has irreparably harmed the music industry in just the same way as being a pillock has irreparably harmed Justin Bieber. Illegal downloading has haemorrhaged cash away from artists, meaning record companies can no longer afford to invest as… Read More ›

Flared Cords And The Truth: The Black Crowes Hit Their Strides

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 12, 2014 • ( 11 )

In September 1991 Guns n Roses released their double-double album set “Use Your Illusion”. A week later Nirvana released Nevermind. As GnR peaked and fell into a squabbling decline, by January 1992 Cobain and co topped the US charts and… Read More ›

The Black Crowes’ First London Show: The Marquee, 1990

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 9, 2014 • ( 13 )

The Marquee Club, London. June 1990. I was there to see a band I had only ever read about, who were on the tiny stage just three feet in front of me, lean as rakes, hungrily playing up a storm… Read More ›

What Is The Greatest “Not Officially Released” Album?

By Every Record Tells A Story on May 27, 2014 • ( 29 )

There’s something about unreleased songs and albums which is wholly intriguing. An unreleased record taunts us whilst unheard, causing divine despair for the days that are no more, or whatever the poet said. Never mind the fact that the artist… Read More ›

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