THE
BLACK CROWES GO INTO THE VAULT FOR
THE
LOST
CROWES
Two-Disc
Collection Features Sessions for
Two
Unreleased Black Crowes Albums Tall
and Band
Plus
the DVD Debut of the Band’s 1992 Home Video
Available
August 29 From Rhino
LOS
ANGELES
– Twice The Black Crowes have
recorded albums that were never officially released: Tall
in 1993 and Band in 1997. While a
few songs from these lost albums were rerecorded and released on studio
albums, many have emerged only through the band’s legendary live shows. The
Black Crowes recently went into the vault, collecting the best moments from
those abandoned sessions for a special treat for their longtime fans. Titled THE
LOST CROWES, it is a two-disc set of unreleased music that has been
remixed for its public debut on Rhino. The compilation will be available
August 29 at all retail outlets and at www.rhino.com for a suggested retail
price of $24.98. The same day, the band’s
1992 home video, WHO KILLED THAT BIRD OUT ON YOUR WINDOW SILL, will
make its DVD debut on Rhino Home Video for a suggested retail price of
$14.99.
In
fall of 1993 vocalist Chris Robinson, guitarists Rich Robinson and Marc Ford,
drummer Steve Gorman, bassist Johnny Colt, and keyboardist Ed Harsch recorded
more than 30 songs at Conway Studios in Los Angeles. Working on the follow-up
to Southern Harmony And Musical Companion,
the band descended into an emotional, startlingly heavy creative patch
that became a stepping-stone to the 1994 album, amorica.
Named
after an old jazz term for getting high, the Tall
sessions contain a total of 16 unreleased tracks that offer an unflinching
glimpse into rough and beautiful music born from turmoil and tension. THE
LOST CROWES includes early versions of seven amorica
songs such as “A Conspiracy,” “Descending,” “Wiser Time” and
“Cursed Diamond.” The collection also features the undiscovered classics
“Tied Up And Swallowed,” “Feathers,” “Thunderstorm 654” and
“Lowdown,” a sad lost anthem that became “Ballad In Urgency.”
Four
years later, the band came off the road after headlining the Furthur Festival
and went into a Nashville studio to record songs for a planned follow-up to
1996’s acclaimed Three Snakes &
One Charm. Where Tall thrives on the mayhem of their young Los
Angeles days, Band confidently probes some of The Black Crowes’ most
mature, thoughtful work.
The
Band sessions contain 10 songs
including a different version of the B-side “Peace Anyway,” plus “If It
Ever Stops Raining,” a song that would become the title-track to the 1999
album By Your Side. The compilation
also spotlights the taut riff rock of “Paint An 8,” the windblown ache of
“Wyoming & Me” along with the freaky-longhaired-Mother Earth grooves
of “Another Roadside Tragedy,” “Grinnin” and “Life Vest.”
Paul
Stacey has remixed all of the music on THE LOST CROWES, which also
includes liner notes spotlighting the stories behind these legendary lost
sessions as told by the Robinsons.
The
Black Crowes released its first home video, WHO
KILLED THAT BIRD OUT ON YOUR WINDOW SILL,
in 1992 while touring for the band’s sophomore album. Rhino Home Video will
release a remastered and expanded version of the video on DVD that features live
performances, interviews, backstage and studio footage, videos from the
group’s first two albums, and additional bonus features.
THE
LOST CROWES
Track
Listing
Disc 1: The Band Sessions
1.
“Paint An 8”
2.
“Grinnin”
3.
“If It Ever Stops Raining”
4.
“Wyoming & Me”
5.
“Predictable”
6.
“Never Forget This Song”
7.
“Life Vest”
8.
“Another Roadside Tragedy”
9.
“My Heart’s Killing Me”
10.
“Peace Anyway”
Disc
2: The Tall Sessions
1.
“A Conspiracy”
2.
“Evil Eye”
3.
“Cursed Diamond”
4.
“London P25”
5.
“Dirty Hair Halo”
6.
“Hi-Head Blues”
7.
“Feathers”
8.
“Nonfiction”
9.
“Tied Up And Swallowed”
10.
“Wiser Time”
11.
“Sunday Buttermilk Waltz”
12.
“Descending”
13.
“Lowdown”
14.
“Tornado”
15.
“Songs Of The Flesh”
16.
“Thunderstorm 6:54”
For additional information regarding THE LOST CROWES and WHO KILLED THAT BIRD OUT ON YOUR WINDOW SILL, please contact:
MSO
Rhino
Media Relations
818
380 0400
Lellie
Capwell,
818 238 6246
Mitch
Schneider (ext 235)
Lellie.Capwell@rhino.com
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Brodginski (ext 239)
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Nelson (ext 227)
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