The Black Crowes Announce ‘Amorica’ Reissue
The rockers’ 1994 album gets a super deluxe box set with bonus tracks galore.
The Black Crowes are ready to take you even deeper into Amorica. The Atlanta rock legends have announced an extensive reissue of their 1994 album featuring extensive bonus tracks, including a wealth of previously unreleased material.
Amorica emerged from the sessions for Tall, an album the band eventually scrapped, though the material was eventually collected on the compilation The Lost Crowes. Several songs from Tall made their way onto the Amorica tracklist in re-recorded form, including the Top 10 rock hits “A Conspiracy,” “High Head Blues,” and “Wiser Time.”
The premier version of the Amorica reissue is the super deluxe box set, available in 5LP and 3CD formats. Both formats include a new remaster of the original studio album and the full slate of bonus material, headlined by Tallest, a collection of new mixes from the Tall sessions, including three previously unreleased songs. The super deluxe edition also includes Marie Levau mixes, with seven unreleased recordings, and Live 10”, with four recordings that have never been heard outside a local radio broadcast.
The 5LP super deluxe box set is pressed onto 180g black vinyl in a rigid slipcase. The package includes a slipmat and a debossed envelope with a 20″x30” poster, a bumper sticker, and a special fanzine. In addition to the super deluxe reissue, Crowes fans can snag 2LP versions of the Amorica remaster on black or clear vinyl, as well as a 1CD edition of the reissue.
At a time when the grunge explosion had transformed the musical landscape, Amorica was the Crowes’ assertion that they remained one of the world’s most formidable rock bands, regardless of shifting trends. In conjunction with the new box set, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, the Crowes’ creative driving force, conducted a new hour-long conversation reflecting on the trials and tribulations that led to Amorica, as well as the famed “mushroom party” at the end of the recording sessions that inspired the album’s visuals.
