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The Black Crowes - High Head Blues

The Black Crowes - High Head Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Amorica
Released: 1994

High Head Blues Lyrics

Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind
Other times sunshine high head fine
In between I get cold, old mean
Intertwined with country pride open and kind

This draws a line
Sorry to coin a phrase
On either side is wisdom and rage
So keeping track of time
Racing with my age
Sleeping with the snakes
Forget that you showed up late
It ain't worth it baby

[Chorus:]
A charmed life it is
At least they tell you so
I got a good idea
It ain't like they say is so
And if it is then let me go
Let me go

Any day there might be hell to pay
But in other ways
It makes it seem OK
I'll tell you what I mean
It's not a plot nor a scheme
It's just peace in my mind
Again can I use the word kind
I ain't sorry about it baby

[Chorus]

Writer/s: CHRIS ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER MARK ROBINSON, RICH ROBINSON, RICH S. ROBINSON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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High Head Blues

A Latin-tinged track from the third Black Crowes album, this song refers to being sober and the need to get high: "In between I get cold, old, and mean."

The band had a love affair with marijuana around this time: they were featured on the cover of High Times magazine in 1992, and played the Atlanta Pot Festival.

At the end of the song, the Spanish after the solo translates into "This is the best weed."

French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who directed Björk's debut "Human Behaviour" clip a year earlier, helmed the music video that has a tiny flying saucer landing in frontman Chris Robinson's house so he can become the subject of alien experiments.

The Black Crowes - Remedy

The Black Crowes - Remedy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Released: 1992

Remedy Lyrics

Baby, baby why can't you sit still?
Who killed that bird out on you window sill?
Are you the reason that he broke his back?
Did I see you laugh about that?
If I come on like a dream?
Will you let me show you what I mean?
Will you let me come on inside?
Will you let it glide?

Can I have some Remedy?
Remedy for me please
Cause if I had some remedy
I'd take enough to please me

Baby, baby why did you dye your hair?
Why you always keeping with your mother's dare?
Baby why's who's who, who know you too?
Did the other children scold on you?
If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?
If you let me come on inside?
Will you let it slide?

Writer/s: ROBINSON, RICH / ROBINSON, CHRIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Remedy

In our interview with Black Crowes lyricist/frontman Chris Robinson , he explained: "'Remedy' is a song that essentially is about freedom. We were into the whole idea that the 'war on drugs' was just silly - it was this asinine concept to me and millions of other people. So that song to me is about freedom, plain and simple, just put in a Rock & Roll framework."

A track from the second Black Crowes album, this was their last song to make the Hot 100 - a surprising development considering they charted three songs from their first album and had a lot of radio support. As the band moved forward, the focused more on their core fanbase (the "connoisseurs" as Chris Robinson calls them), which circumscribed their popular fortunes.

The pro-marijuana stance the band espouses in this song is something they played up around this time. To help promote the album, they appeared on the cover of High Times magazine, played the Atlanta Pot Festival, and had signage at their concerts with marijuana leaves.

The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels

The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shake Your Money Maker
Released: 1990

She Talks To Angels Lyrics

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She Talks To Angels

During VH1's The Black Crowes Storytellers, filmed at The Bottom Line in New York City on August 27, 1996, lead singer Chris Robinson explained that this song is not about "one" person, but rather a "hot dog" (as he put it) of people that they knew from the Atlanta club scene in their early days. "Not all the best parts" explained Chris, "or the best parts for you." Chris says that there was always a girl in the club scene back then with really dark makeup (like Siouxsie And The Banshees), and after thinking about her one day, he scribbled the lyric "she paints her eyes as black as night." He then went on to write an entire biography (completely made up, by the way) about her in the form of the song that then became "She Talks to Angels." (thanks, Jacob - Dallas, TX)

In our interview with Chris Robinson , who wrote this song with his bandmate/brother Rich, he said: "'She Talks to Angels' is a funny song in that so many people resonate with it. The dark details like drugs and things like that would be a part of growing up and being in this world, but when I wrote that song I had no idea - I hadn't done any of those things. I hadn't lived that - everything was in my imagination."

The Christian band Third Day has a song about the Black Crowes that references this song and others. It's called "Black Bird" and imitates their style. The song says that Third Day really likes The Black Crowes music but that they essentially need Jesus in their lives. There is a lyric in "Black Bird" that says "You say to talk to angels, well I say it's such a lie." (thanks, Bob - Omaha, NE)

The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle

The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shake Your Money Maker
Released: 1990

Hard To Handle Lyrics

Baby here I am
I'm the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta' come home with me

I have got some good old lovin'
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on
You
You gotta' come back for more

[Chorus]
Boys and things that come by the
Dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore
Lovin'
Pretty little thing let me light your
Candle
'Cause mama I'm so Hard To Handle now
Yes I am

Action speaks louder than words
And I'm a man of great experience
I know you've got another man
But I can love you better than him

Take my hand don't be afraid
I'm gonna prove every word I say
I'm advertising love for free
So you can place your ad with me

Boys come along a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothing but ten cent
Lovin'
Pretty little thing let me light your
Candle
'Cause mama I'm so hard to handle now
Yes I am

Baby here I am
I'm the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta' come home with me

[Chorus]

Writer/s: REDDING, OTIS / ISBELL, ALVERTIS / JONES, ALLEN ALVOID JR.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hard To Handle Song Chart

This song was originally recorded by Otis Redding, who wrote it with Allen Jones and Al Bell. It was the only cover song on The Black Crowes debut album, which sold over five million copies.

Running a compact 3:08, The Black Crows turned the song into a rocker, using guitars instead of horns and extending the song from Redding's 2:18 original.

This was The Black Crowes' third single, following "Twice As Hard" and "Jealous Again." It made #45 in the US in December, 1990, as the group was rapidly gaining momentum. After "She Talks To Angels" hit #30 in May 1991 - over a year after the album was released - "Hard To Handle" was reissued, this time going to #26 and becoming the highest-charting single for the band on the Hot 100. The group had been together for five years before signing a record deal with Def American, which prepared them well for the onslaught of success. Their live act had already been honed, and many who saw them remained lifetime fans as they became more of a jam band.