*** Shake Your Money Maker by the Black Crowes – Rocks in a Non-Cerebral Way

This is one of those albums that I totally loved when I was in high school that has ceased to impress me now that my ears aren’t quite as virgin as they used to be.  Yes, there once was a time when I would have given this one 5 stars, but now it sounds like a lazy effort from a drug n’ roll band.  If you want to know whether or not this one rocks; the answer is simple.  It does.  However, if you want to know if this music is cerebral, the answer is entirely different.  From my cerebral perspective this album leaves much to be desired.

There is a redeeming quality to this music in that though it may be simple; it is one of the better simple albums of its time.  I think that the reason I perceive this album as a mild success is probably that it has a lot to the unusual guitar tuning common to the Black Crowes sound.  Naturally, by using different tuning than what is standard, it enables the band to pull off some things that would be more difficult than they would be with standard tuning.