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The Black Crowes

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The Black Crowes have wrapped "Warpaint," their first studio album since 2001, and will release it March 4 internationally via their own Silver Arrow imprint, with distribution by Megaforce/Red.

The 11-track set was recorded at Allaire Studios in Woodstock, N.Y., and procued by Paul Stacey. It features the recording debut of new guitarist Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and keyboardist Adam MacDougall. They join original members Chris and Rich Robinson and drummer Steve Gorman, as well as bassist Sven Pipien.

All of the tracks are Robinson brothers originals, except "God's Got It," which was penned by the Reverend Charlie Jackson.

The Crowes will perform "Warpaint" in its entirety during a spring U.S. run that will begin March 4, with dates to be announced. A world tour will follow, which kicks off March 24 at Australia's Byron Bay Festival.

Here is the track list for "Warpaint":

"Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution"

"Walk Believer Walk"

"O, Josephine"

"Evergreen"

"We Who See The Deep"

"Locust Street"

"Movin' on Down the Line"

"Wounded Bird"

"God's Got It"

"There's Gold in Them Hills"

"Whoa Mule"

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First post bitches...Again. Anyways, can't wait for the new album. Hopefully it will be twenty times better then "Lions"

I really like 'Lions' but if it could be 20 times better!!! Ohmygod that would be some kick-ass record. :thumbsup:

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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...he-black-crowes

In the Studio: The Black Crowes

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“It’s about freedom, and what revolution used to stand for, how you’ve got to make one of your own and make it last,” singer Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes shouts as the brawling guitars of “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution,” the opening song on the Crowes’ first studio album since Lions in 2001, boom through the stereo speakers in a friend’s apartment in Brooklyn. “It’s like the last line of the song,” Robinson says, then singing along to himself on the record, “Don’t you want to see the ship go down with me?”

That fighting spirit is a running theme in Warpaint, to be released on March 4th on the Crowes’ own Silver Arrow label. The album features ten new originals, written by Chris and his guitarist brother, Rich, including the heavy-blues march “Walk Believer Walk,” the midtempo bruiser “We Who See the Deep,” a country-soul ballad, “There’s Gold in Them Hills,” and the closing raga- flavored hymn, “Whoa Mule,” with Chris declaring, “We’re dirty but we’re dreamin’, ” in a field of harmonium, slide guitar, harmonica and hand drumming. Warpaint also comes with holy rollin’ — a raucous cover of “God’s Got It,” written and recorded in the Seventies by Louisiana guitarist-preacher Rev. Charlie Jackson.

According to Chris, Warpaint is the complete package of the Georgia-born Crowes’ passions and influences — the Delta blues, Dixie soul and early-Seventies classic rock that immediately marked them as determined purists on their 1990 hit debut, Shake Your Moneymaker. “It’s got all the roots,” he says as Warpaint plays — loudly — behind him. “But it’s also got a psychedelic feel,” he adds. The Day-Glo country ballad “Oh Josephine” is, Chris says, “one of the best things Rich and I have ever written.” But at the end, it veers into a long finale of exultant, battling guitars, played by Rich and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, who has officially joined the Crowes with this album. “Hey, we’re the Black Crowes,” Chris says with a smile poking through his gold-rush-miner beard. “We gotta tack on a three-minute coda.”

Warpaint, the Crowes’ seventh studio album, has been an unusually long time coming. In 2002, the band — exhausted by a decade of touring, record-label politics and the Robinsons’ own notorious, combative relationship — went on open-ended hiatus, during which Chris and Rich each pursued solo careers. The brothers restarted the Crowes in 2005 but stuck to live work until last July, when they recorded Warpaint with Dickinson, bassist Sven Pipien and original drummer Steve Gorman in a studio in Woodstock, New York. The Crowes cut the songs live in the studio in just three weeks and in as few takes as possible, with minimal overdubbing. The voodoo rock of “Evergreen” was caught in a single take, and “Whoa Mule” was actually cut outdoors. “You can hear the birds,” Chris points out.

The incandescent tangle of Rich and Dickinson’s guitars on Warpaint was, Chris claims, inevitable: “We’ve known the guys in the North Mississippi Allstars for a long time.” But after Rich and Dickinson debuted their side project, Circle Sound, a covers-jam band, in early 2007, the Robinsons decided to make Dickinson a Crowe for real. “Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do,” Chris says, laughing. Meanwhile, the Allstars, founded by Dickinson and his drummer brother, Cody, release their own new album, Hernando, on January 22nd.

The Crowes are so proud of Warpaint that they will play the record in its entirety every night during a run of shows in March. Chris points out that the originals are truly new, too — all written shortly before the Woodstock sessions, with no riffs or hooks left over from the past few years. “I didn’t want any of that,” Chris says. “I wanted to show people where we are now.”

[Photo: Matthew Mendenhall]

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Damn...just how many lead guitarists are they gonna go through?

Luther Dickinson, Audley Freed, Marc Ford, Paul Stacey.......

.....Jimmy Page... B)

But this one does sound promising! It's GOTTA be better than Lions, the only stinker in their catalogue.

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Damn...just how many lead guitarists are they gonna go through?

Luther Dickinson, Audley Freed, Marc Ford, Paul Stacey.......

.....Jimmy Page... B)

But this one does sound promising! It's GOTTA be better than Lions, the only stinker in their catalogue.

Hey c'mon, Lions had a couple good songs...

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Can't say I hear the Page influence on it but I will say I had higher hopes for Audley's one and only record with the band. And yep, it does have a handful of good tunes but they're not enough to save what I consider the Crowes' weakest record. Hopefully the new one will find them tapping into their muse again.

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Lions is an ok album, got some highs, and lows.. I actually prefer Chris' second solo album to Lions. Anyone heard This Magnificent Distance? It rocks pretty good. No wonder they brought Paul Stacey to the work of a new Black Crowes album.

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Lions is an ok album, got some highs, and lows.. I actually prefer Chris' second solo album to Lions. Anyone heard This Magnificent Distance? It rocks pretty good. No wonder they brought Paul Stacey to the work of a new Black Crowes album.

I haven't much of the Crowes output outside of the band but what little I heard from Chris' second solo album I liked.

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Yeah, Audley Freed plays on a couple of tracks too.

Hard to believe but he's now part of the Dixie Chicks' touring band. I hold nothing against him for it though, a struggling musician has to get by. In that same regard former Tift, Ryan Adams, Backsliders and Whiskeytown guitarist Brad Rice now plays in Keith Urban's band.

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Hard to believe but he's now part of the Dixie Chicks' touring band. I hold nothing against him for it though, a struggling musician has to get by. In that same regard former Tift, Ryan Adams, Backsliders and Whiskeytown guitarist Brad Rice now plays in Keith Urban's band.

Ha! I didn't know about that.. Well as you said, they have to find some way to earn a living.. Hopefully it'll take them elsewhere..

I saw Brad with Tift, when she was over the first time.. it was just her and Brad as a duo, he's a great guitarist.

What happend to Marc Ford?

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What happend to Marc Ford?

I don't know all the ins and outs but apparently he has a long and storied history with drug abuse, one can only guess but that's most likely what lead to his most recent falling out with the Robinson brothers and him being ousted from the band (again).

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