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Crow - The Best Of Crow (1992)

Crow - The Best Of Crow (1992)

BAND/ARTIST: Crow

Tracklist:

01. Evil Woman
02. Cottage Cheese
03. I Need Love
04. (Don't Try To Lay Boogie Woogie On The) King Of Rock And Roll
05. Colors
06. Yellow Dawg
07. Slow Down
08. Time To Make A Turn
09. Busy Day
10. Keeps me Runnin'
11. Satisfied
12. Gonna Leave A Mark
13. Smokey Joe
14. I Stand To Blame
15. Mobile Blues
16. I Want Sunshine
17. Heading North
18. Gone, Gone, Gone

A hard-charging blues-rock garage band out of Minneapolis led by the passionate singing of David Wagner, Crow had their big break when a track from the group's debut album for independent label Amaret Records, "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games with Me)," became a big national radio hit in 1969. But there were a couple of problems. First, the album's producers had added an uptown R&B horn chart to the song against the band's wishes, which meant that when it became a hit, Crow, who had no horn players, had a tough time promoting it on the playing circuit, becoming essentially two different bands, the live one and the studio one. More seriously, Amaret was too small a label to support a big national hit, and fans of the band often ended up with no place to purchase the album. It was ultimately too much for Crow to overcome, and the band struggled through two more albums before folding in 1971. Crow probably deserved a better fate, because it was a solid band, the studio version sounding like a funky version of Blood, Sweat & Tears while the touring version sounded like a harder-edged Doobie Brothers crossed, say, with the Trashmen. This set collects essential tracks from that Amaret run, and includes "Evil Woman," which started it all, an extended version of the follow-up single, "Cottage Cheese," the should-have-been-a-classic "(Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the) King of Rock and Roll," and solid album tracks like "Watch That Cat" and "Keeps Me Running," as well as a previously unreleased demo version of the Beatles' "When I Get Home," which gives the song a wonderful and lightly funky shuffle rhythm. Crow should have been a big national act, and the proof of that is here, but the history of rock & roll is full of these kinds of stories, stories that have more could-haves and should-haves attached to them than history will allow.


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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.