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The Black Crowes- THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM- CD- 1996/2009-
- American Recordings, LLC/Sony Music Entertainment- 886971463620- 400 grn
THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Black Crowes. It was released on 23rd July 1996. With Amorica, The Black Crowes began developing a distinctive sound, shading their Stonesy Southern boogie with a variety of rootsy and psychedelic overtones. But where Amorica was rich with kaleidescopic colors, THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM is stripped-down and direct. Sure, it has a punchy, muscular sound that is, if anything, more eclectic than its predecessor, but the production is distressingly monotonous and the songs lack strong hooks. Even with its faults, THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM is a winning album, mainly because The Black Crowes' musicianship continues to deepen. The musical fusions and eclecticism are seamless, particularly from lead guitarist Rich Robinson. Their musicianship would be even more impressive if the songs were equal in quality. To some Black Crowes fans, THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM is their favourite album by some distance, simply because it’s the one on which they took the most risks and ventured furthest away from their classic bluesy hard southern rock sound. On the flip side, there’s those that it doesn’t find favour with for exactly the same reasons. That said, it’s still recognisably a Black Crowes album and, because of the Robinson brothers’ willingness to expand their sound, one of their most unique.
PERSONNEL: Chris Robinson – vocals, blues harp; Rich Robinson – guitar, backing vocals, autoharp; Marc Ford – guitar; Johnny Colt – bass guitar; Steve Gorman – drums; Eddie Harsch – keyboards; The Dirty Dozen: Gregory Davis, Roger Lewis, Effrem Towns, Revert Andrews, Kevin Harris - horns; Bruce Kaphan - pedal steel guitar; Rik Taylor - banjo; Erica Stewart, Barbara Mitchell, Garry Shider, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper - backing vocals.
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s now much easier to appreciate the part that THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM played in The Black Crowes career. It is the the culmination of a diversion that started with Amorica and took them as far away from their tried and tested sound as they would ever stray. Following this album, they lost two key band members in guitar player Marc Ford and bass player Johnny Colt, regrouped, recorded an album’s worth of material that would be shelved, before they returned to a more streamlined and dynamic sound that found them recapturing much of the magic of their early work. THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM was the moment just before The Black Crowes hit the reset button, and is therefore the moment at which they were at their least Black Crowesy. In an era that was about flannel, depression and suicide, the nineties, The Black Crowes were notoriously and defiantly out of step with that attitude, zeitgeist and notion because to this day-selling out is not for them and never will be. For these Loud and Noisy Free Birds, disciples of Skynyrd, all that matters is the music. It certainly won't be too long before The Black Crowes, Chris and Rich Robinson plus a revolving door of lineup changes, get their pass to Cleveland, the hallowed hallways of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Think of THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM as an uneasy trip, however, a good and brilliant one and you're not that far off. These Beautiful Southern Birds make a Loud Noise! Sweet and soulful as a Georgia Peach. THREE SNAKES AND ONE CHARM is an album that divided opinion, and to a certain extent, still does today, but without it in your collection, your understanding of one of America’s greatest rock and roll bands is incomplete.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray And Includes 4-Page Foldout Inlay.
Made In The EU.
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