Album Info

Before the Frost... Until the Freeze

Rock - 2009

Reunited and inspired, the Black Crowes brought a notable amount of new material with them to the Band’s Levon Helm’s... more

Tracklist

1

Good Morning Captain

3:25 min
2

Been a Long Time (Waiting On Love)

7:43 min
3

Appaloosa

3:29 min
4

A Train Makes a Lonely Sound

4:23 min
5

I Ain't Hiding

5:56 min
6

Kept My Soul

5:23 min
7

What Is Home

5:14 min
8

Houston Don't Dream About Me

5:05 min
9

Make Glad

4:19 min
10

And the Band Played On

4:12 min
11

The Last Place That Love Lives

4:56 min
12

Aimless Peacock

6:34 min
13

Shady Grove

4:41 min
14

Garden Gate

4:15 min
15

Greenhorn

7:12 min
16

Shine Along

4:34 min
17

Roll Old Jeremiah

4:26 min
18

Lady of Avenue A

5:21 min
19

So Many Times

4:51 min
20

Fork In the River

4:10 min

About Before the Frost... Until the Freeze

Reunited and inspired, the Black Crowes brought a notable amount of new material with them to the Band’s Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, and cut everything live in front of an appreciative audience. The guys are in fine form with Larry Campbell adding some choice fiddle, pedal steel and banjo where appropriate. They use their full rock vocabulary and then some. Tracks such as “Good Morning Captain,” “Kept My Soul” and “So Many Times“ trace the band’s blues and gospel roots, while “What Is Home” pays homage to the their early-‘70s folk roots, with its sweet CSNY-type harmonies and fingerpicked instruments (mandolin, banjo) creating a bucolic spell. “I Ain’t Hiding” skirts ‘70s disco. “Garden Gate” tricks up bluegrass. “And the Band Played Om” riffs on the Beatles. “Houston Don’t Dream About Me” flirts with ‘70s country-rock, while “Roll On Jeremiah” goes for straight C&W. “The Last Place That Love Lives” channels that wasted acoustic folk-soul that Chris Robinson knows or so well.