Shake Your Money Maker

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Studio album by The Black Crowes
Publication (s)	January 1990
Label (s)	Def American
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	13 (remastered)
running time	43m42s
occupation	Singing : Chris Robinson Guitar : Rich Robinson Guitar : Jeff Cease Drums : Steve Gorman Bass : Johnny Colt
production	George Drakoulias
Studio (s)	Soundscape Studios, Atlanta Chapel Studios, Paramount Studios, Grandmaster Studios, Los Angeles
chronology - $ hake Your Money Maker The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992)

$ hake Your Money Maker is the debut album of the Black Crowes , known as the most rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll band in the world . A classic blues song by Elmore James bears the same name. The album reached number 4 on the Billboard charts . The biggest hit is likely to be the cover version of Otis Reddings Hard to Handle , but the singles Twice as Hard , Jealous Again and, above all, the ballad She Talks to Angles , played with acoustic guitars , also achieved a high level of awareness. The album was awarded five times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in May 1995 .

History of origin

In 1989 the band, which at the time was still called Mr. Crowe's Garden , received a recording contract with American Recordings (then Def American), the label of producer Rick Rubin . Although the band had been around for several years, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson wrote twelve new tracks within six weeks, along with Hard to Handle , a cover version of Georgia- born Otis Redding, and She Talks to Angels , the only older one Piece by the band, pre-produced with George Drakoulias and finally recorded and mixed within a month and a half.

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Shake Your Money Maker   US 4th 04/06/1991 (165 weeks)   UK 36 08/24/1991 (11 weeks)

Singles

Jealous Again   US 75 06/23/1990 (9 weeks)   UK 76 06/16/1990 (2 weeks) Hard to handle   US 45 December 15, 1990 (15 weeks)   UK 45 09/01/1990 (5 weeks) Twice as hard   UK 47 01/12/1991 (3 weeks) She Talks to Angels   US 30th 05/11/1991 (16 weeks)   UK 70 06/22/1991 (1 week) Hard to Handle (1991)   US 26th 08/17/1991 (14 weeks)   UK 39 08/24/1991 (4 weeks) Seeing things   UK 72 10/26/1991 (1 week)

Track list

1. Twice as Hard - 4:09
2. Jealous Again - 4:35
3. Sister Luck - 5:13
4. Could I've Been So Blind - 3:44
5. Seeing Things - 5:18
6. Hard to Handle (Isbell / Jones / Redding) - 3:08
7. Thick N 'Thin - 2:44
8. She Talks to Angels - 5:29
9. Struttin 'Blues - 4:09
10. Stare It Cold - 5:13
11. Don't Wake Me - 3:33
12. She Talks to Angels (acoustic) - 6:19
13. Live Too Fast Blues / Mercy, Sweet Moan (hidden track) - 1:17

Except for Hard to Handle, all songs were written by Chris and Rich Robinson. Titles 11 and 12 were only added for re-release as part of the Sho'Nuff box set. The track Live Too Fast Blues / Mercy, Sweet Moan, which is not on the track list of the album , is the last song in any case.

staff

tape

• Chris Robinson : vocals
• Young Rich Robinson : guitar
• Jeff Cease: guitar
• Steve Gorman: Drums & Cymbals
• Johnny Colt: Bass

Additional musicians

• Chuck Leavell : Keyboard
• Brendan O'Brien : A Potpourri of Instruments
• Laura Creamer: background vocals

Rod

• Producer: George Drakoulias
• Sound engineer: Brendan O'Brien
• Executive Producer: Rick Rubin

Singles

Five tracks were released as singles from the album. With the exception of the track Waiting Guilty , all B-sides were live or acoustic versions of tracks from the album or live recorded covers . The singles were equipped with different B-sides in different regions and in different formats. All B-sides that were published for the respective single are given, without all pieces having to be included on the respective sound carrier.

Jealous Again

• Release date: February 1990
• B-sides:
  • She Talks to Angels (live)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • Waiting guilty
  • Jealous Again (acoustic)
  • She Talks to Angels (acoustic)

Hard to handle

• Release date: 1990
• B-sides:
  • Waiting guilty
  • Jealous Again (acoustic)
  • Twice as Hard (remix)
  • Sister Luck (live)
  • Stare It Cold (live)
  • Twice as Hard (live)
  • Dreams (live) ( Gregg Allman ) - Allman Brothers Band cover

Twice as hard

• Release date: August 1990
• B-sides:
  • Jealous Guy (live) ( John Lennon )
  • Jealous Again (live)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • Jealous Again (acoustic)

Seeing things

• Release date: September 1990
• B-sides:
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)
  • She Talks to Angels (live)
  • Sister Luck (live)
  • Hard to Handle (live)
  • Twice as Hard (live)
  • Jealous Again (live)

She Talks to Angels

• Release date: 1990
• B sides
  • She Talks to Angels (edit)
  • Jealous Again (acoustic)
  • She Talks to Angels (acoustic)
  • Could I've Been So Blind (live)

useful information

The Black Crowes only added the Elmore James Blues Shake Your Money Maker to their program from November 1994. In 1999 they released the piece on the album Live At The Greek, recorded with Jimmy Page .

At the beginning of the recording sessions the band was still called Mr. Crowes Garden , but changed their name to The Black Crowes over the years .

14 pieces were recorded during the sessions. You're Wrong was published as a B-side, whereas Charming Mess was not published and was only played live once. Don't Wake Me , released as a bonus track in 1998 , was never performed in front of an audience.

Almost all of the pieces were composed shortly before the sessions, with the exception of the cover version of Hard to Handle and the title She Talks to Angels , which was the only piece in Mr. Crowes Garden's program since 1988.

The band was accompanied in the studio by the southern / blues rock veteran Chuck Leavell on the keyboards (piano / Hammond organ). Leavell had been a member of the Allman Brothers Band since the 1970s , toured with the Rolling Stones and played a. a. on Eric Clapton's Unplugged CD piano.

Web links

• Album information on crowesbase.com
• Meeting at AMG

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of chart successes at allmusic.com
2. ↑ List of chart successes at tsort.info
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Information about the recording session on crowesbase.com
4. ↑ Charts UK Charts US
5. ↑ Jealous Again (single) on crowesbase.com
6. ↑ Hard To Handle (Single) on crowesbase.com
7. ↑ Twice As Hard (Single) on crowesbase.com
8. ↑ Seeing Things (Single) on crowesbase.com
9. ↑ She Talks To Angels (Single) on crowesbase.com
10. ↑ Setlist archive - but hardly any setlists exist from the band's first two years
11. ↑ Charming Mess at www.crowesbase.com
12. ↑ Don't Wake Me on crowesbase.com
13. ↑ Chuck Leavell  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at allmusic