Tag: Marc Ford
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Stone The Crowes!: It’s The Magpie Salute
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 Crowes sold thirty million albums and hit the number one album spot in America with…
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Foamfoot And Sweet Pickle Salad – The Black Crowes’ Bootleg Recordings
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 out there for whom The Black Crowes are but an empty page in their life…
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Flared Cords And The Truth: The Black Crowes Hit Their Strides
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 in March had a second hit single with “Come As You Are”. Suddenly, guitar playing…
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