writing on the Crowes . What a great band. Tell me how you first became in- fatuated with the Black Crowes, be- cause you have been a such a promoter of them ever since I’ve known you. And where is that book now as far as publi- cation. Well, the Black Crowes were my age, they were from Atlanta. I remember listening to Shake Your Money Maker with Stanley and he said “Man, this is better than anything the Stones have done in years.”
Yeah. And I think one of the reasons was because they were good, but they were underdogs. No body really wanted to let them be who they were, and then years later everyone finds out, well, yeah they weren’t kidding around. Through the years I’ve got to know those guys and I think that was a great American Rock ‘n’ roll band. And now you have two brothers who right now have not spoken to each other in years. They played with everyone from The Stones to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Grate- ful Dead, P-funk. . . Oh God, ya know, they are just a great American Rock n Roll band.
Their great album with Jimmy Page, man, that was fantastic. Yeah there you go. And the last record Larry Campbell and all those Woodstock cats. . . But I’ve been working on this book for about 20 years. It’s to the point where it’s basically about - now, I don’t want to jinx myself, but I want to say 85% finished. It takes us up to right now. In the next couple of months I will spend a little bit of time with each principle, each brother and then see how receptive they are to participating. They know it's going on. Then I will shop it and find it a home, but that is what I’m working on currently. So yeah that book does exist, I’m staring at it right now, all 700 pages of it.
Wow.
James with Chris Robinson.
Yeah, with red markings all over it that say “insert here.”
Thinking about the Crowes, they were really original. i mean, sure, they had their influences, but they were true originals. Originality is key. Having said that, yeah everyone has influences. The Rolling Stones, took from Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, and we writers took from John Steinbeck or whoever. Everybody does that.
It’s always been my favorite thing to trace it back, further and further. I re- member mentioning to a local blues man one time, years ago, 20 years ago, we were sitting around having a drink on New Year’s Eve and I said some- thing about loving Muddy Waters. He goes “Muddy Waters ain’t no blues,
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