Watch Black Crowes Play ‘Amorica’ in New Concert Special

The Black Crowes celebrate their 1994 album Amorica in a new live concert special. The followup to the band’s two commercial juggernaut albums Shake Your Money Maker and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Amorica — styled as amorica. — was polarizing to casual fans upon release. But to hardcore followers of the group’s founding Robinson siblings, it was a rock & roll revelation.

Onstage at the Analog venue inside Nashville’s Hutton Hotel, singer Chris Robinson and guitarist Rich Robinson re-create some of the album’s most eclectic songs. “Wiser Time,” “P. 25 London,” and the LP’s lead single, “A Conspiracy,” are all brought to life by the full band. For good measure, they close the concert with “Remedy,” off The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.

The Robinsons also sit for an interview about Amorica, and share their take on the songs and what inspired them.

“Some of the imagery and the emotion in it is bleak and lonely. How can you be 28 years old and already be that dusted? That’s just growing up as well,” Chris says in this clip. “If one thing we were in tune with the artists of our generation in that era, is we were all in touch with our blue. It was a blue period for everyone. There’s a melancholy that drifts through the whole thing.”

The Black Crowes will further note the 30th anniversary of the LP with the Nov. 14 release of a remastered, deluxe edition that features seven unreleased recordings.

The Black Crowes: Recorded Live at Analog is available to stream for free on YouTube beginning today, Thursday, Oct. 16, with national broadcasts airing on public television stations (check local listings). Produced by iMaggination, Inc. and presented on public television by WNPT Nashville PBS, the episode was directed by Pat Heaphy / LCM247.