The Black Crowes Warpaint
Released : March 3, 2008
Recorded : July 2007 at Allaire Studios, Shokan, New York
Label : Silver Arrow
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Warpaint is a 2008 album by blues rock band The Black Crowes. Released on March 3, 2008, it was the band's first studio album in almost seven years, and its first with new members Luther Dickinson and Adam MacDougall, as well as the first to be released on the band's own Silver Arrow Records label.
After a decade-plus on the jam band circuit, the Robinson brothers return to form, gleefully ripping off the Rolling Stones. The lead-off track, "Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution," with its swinging beat and raunchy slide--courtesy of Mississippi All-Star and new Crowe Luther Dickinson--recalls "Let it Bleed." "Oh, Josephine" echoes the weary, processed guitar tones of "Waiting On a Friend." They even ape the Stones aping Gram Parsons on the beautiful, country-tinged number "Locust Street." Warpaint occasionally finds the band stretching out into a looser, more natural vibe, as on "Whoa Mule," the closer, augmented by elements of freak-folk and reportedly recorded outside the band's Catskills studio. All told, this is the band's best album since The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion.
Tracklist :
1. "Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution" – 5:03
2. "Walk Believer Walk" – 4:39
3. "Oh Josephine" – 6:38
4. "Evergreen" – 4:20
5. "Wee Who See the Deep" – 4:50
6. "Locust Street" – 4:14
7. "Movin' On Down the Line" – 5:42
8. "Wounded Bird" – 4:23
9. "God's Got It" (Rev. Charlie Jackson) – 3:22
10. "There's Gold in Them Hills" – 4:47
11. "Whoa Mule" – 5:45
12. "Here Comes Daylight" – 3:46 [Bonus Track]
Personnel :
Chris Robinson – vocals, harmonica, percussion
Rich Robinson – guitars
Luther Dickinson – guitar, mandolin on "Locust Street"
Steve Gorman – drums
Adam MacDougall – keyboards
Sven Pipien – bass guitar
Additional personnel
Paul Stacey – twelve string guitar on "Whoa Mule"
