Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Paint An Eight
2. Another Roadside Tragedy
3. If It Ever Stops Raining
4. Wyoming And Me
5. Predictable
6. Never Forget This Song
7. Lifevest
8. Grinnin'
9. My Heart's Killing Me
10. Peace Anyway

Disc 2:

1. Conspiracy
2. Evil Eye
3. Cursed Diamond
4. London P25
5. Dirty Hair Halo
6. Hi Head Blues
7. Feathers
8. Nonfiction
9. Tied Up And Swallowed
10. Wiser Time
11. Sunday Buttermilk Waltz
12. Descending
13. Low Down
14. Tornado
15. Songs Of The Flesh
16. Thunderstorm 654

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7017 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Class, as always.
Any Crowes fan should own this album. Anyone new to Crowes get Amorica, Companion and Shake your Money Maker first!

Five stars for the music that made it... but a missed opportunity
If you're a Crowes fan - of course, to some extent if you're not one too, but in all honesty part of the thrill of these CDs is seeing how the history of the band and the albums either side of these 'lost' recordings subtly changes in the light of their belated release - then this is the motherlode. The music's great - especially the Tall Sessions - and the band's cooking. The packaging is really very impressive - exactly how one always hopes these things will appear, yet they so rarely do.

So, why no five stars? Because the 'Tall Album' CD is actually only a collection of about half the tracks they recorded for that album. Fair enough, space is limited on CDs, but I've heard the Tall bootleg, and when faced with the choice of releasing the admittedly interesting glut of "alternate versions" or more killer originals, this collection seems alternate-version-heavy. Where's Wind & Wood Heart? One Cop Story? Exit Nos.1&2? Title Song? Appalachian Opera Minus The O.P.? Much as I'm grateful that the world outside of a few bootleg fiends can now also hear Feathers, Dirty Hair Halo etc.,

At last - the vaults are opened!
'The Lost Crowes' is long overdue - in fact, half of it is 13 years overdue! I guess some things ARE worth waiting for and this release is undoubtedly one of them

So what's it all about? Well between the release of the amazing 'Southern Harmony and Musical Companion' in 1992 and the classic 'Amorica' in 1994, the Crowes reached highs and trawled lows.....

Musically, they wrote amazing songs like 'Feathers', 'Dirty Haired Halo' and 'Tornado' - but at the same time the relationship between brothers Chris and Rich reached such an all time low point that they worked at seperate times in the studio - and generally overwrote whatever had been taped by the previous brother. Things in the Crowes camp were not good.....but the music was compelling..... Sadly, it was never properly mastered or officially released - until now! 'Tall' is finally available in all of it's glory - and about bloody time!

'The Band Sessions' follows a similar vein - but the timeline has now moved forward to between '3 Snakes..' and 'By Your Side'. Again, amazing songs were written; recorded and readied to go...but the brothers decided to scrap it all and moved on to 'By Your Side', where echoes of 'The Band Sessions' remained, but the highs of songs such as 'Paint an 8', 'Another Roadside Tragedy' and 'Grinnin' (to name but 3!) were never quite attained.

They don't make music like this anymore - though the Crowes are going out of their way to make their live shows hark back to days of real rock genius.

With both discs mastered by English producer and musician par excellence, Paul Stacey, this Rhino release promises to be something special for anybody who loves their music to have depth, soul and rock in abundance. Grab this now and you will never regret it - you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain.