THE BLACK CROWES
The Black Crowes were an American rock band formed in 1989. Their discography includes eight studio albums, four live albums and several charting singles. Their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker was released in 1990; the follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 1992. After a hiatus between 2002 and 2005, the band released Warpaint, which hit number 5 on the Billboard chart. They announced their break-up in 2015. The band has sold over 30 million albums and is listed at number 92 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. They were also labeled by Melody Maker as “The Most Rock ’n’ Roll Rock ’n’ Roll Band in the World”, and the readers of Rolling Stone voted them ‘Best New American Band’ in 1990. (More from Wikipedia)
The Cactus brand of American-style blues rock has been cited as an influence on many bands that followed; Wikipedia lists Aerosmith, Van Halen, .38 Special, Anvil, the Black Crowes, Montrose, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Black Keys. Cactus has been through a succession of line-ups over the years and is still active as of 2012.
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