The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the second album

Album

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 by the American blues-rock

Blues-rock

Blues rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a...

 group The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are an American rock band formed in 1989. Their discography includes nine studio albums, four live albums and several charting singles. The band was signed to Def American Recordings in 1989 by producer George Drakoulias and released their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, the...

, released on May 12, 1992. It was the first record by the band to feature Marc Ford on lead guitar, replacing Jeff Cease, who was fired the year before.

It features four hit singles; "Remedy

Remedy (The Black Crowes song)

"Remedy" is the second track by The Black Crowes from their second album, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. It reached #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in May 1992 and stayed at #1 for 11 weeks. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #48...

" (#1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for 11 weeks), "Thorn in My Pride" (#1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for four weeks), "Sting Me" (#1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks), and "Hotel Illness" (#1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for six weeks). It was a record for an album to feature four album rock number-one hits (previously set by Tom Petty

Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

 in 1989, with three). The album itself reached the top spot of the Billboard 200

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 album chart, propelled by the success of these singles.

In 2006, the album was ranked number 100 on Guitar World

Guitar World

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magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91743

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson

Rich Robinson

Rich Robinson is an American musician and founding member of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes. Along with older brother Chris Robinson, Rich formed the band in 1984 while the two were in high school...

, except where noted.

1. "Sting Me
   Sting Me (song)
   "Sting Me" is a single by American rock band The Black Crowes. It was recorded for, and released on, their number-one album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, in 1992...
   
   " – 4:39
2. "Remedy
   Remedy (The Black Crowes song)
   "Remedy" is the second track by The Black Crowes from their second album, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. It reached #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in May 1992 and stayed at #1 for 11 weeks. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #48...
   
   " – 5:22
3. "Thorn in My Pride" – 6:03
4. "Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye" – 6:28
5. "Sometimes Salvation" – 4:44
6. "Hotel Illness" – 3:59
7. "Black Moon Creeping" – 4:54
8. "No Speak No Slave" – 4:01
9. "My Morning Song" – 6:15
10. "Time Will Tell" (Bob Marley
    Bob Marley
    Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
    
    ) – 4:08

Bonus tracks

11. "Sting Me (Slow)" – 5:48
12. "99 lbs." (Don Bryant
    Don Bryant
    Don Bryant is an American singer and songwriter.Bryant was staff songwriter for Hi Records. He married soul singer Ann Peebles in 1974.-Discography:Doin' the Mustang...
    
    ) – 4:18

Japanese bonus track

11. "Shake 'Em on Down
    Shake 'Em on Down
    "Shake 'Em on Down" is a country-style blues song recorded by Bukka White in 1937. It is his best-known song and "became part of the repertoire of Chicago blues".-Background:...
    
    " (Live)

Personnel

• Chris Robinson – vocals
• Rich Robinson
  Rich Robinson
  Rich Robinson is an American musician and founding member of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes. Along with older brother Chris Robinson, Rich formed the band in 1984 while the two were in high school...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Marc Ford
  Marc Ford
  Marc Ford , is an American blues-rock guitarist. He's a former lead guitarist of the rock and roll jam band The Black Crowes and the leader of his own bands .-Burning Tree:Ford began his career with the blues-rock outfit Burning...
  
   – guitar
• Johnny Colt
  Johnny Colt
  Johnny Colt is an American bass guitar player.-Biography:He was the original bassist for The Black Crowes which formed in Atlanta, Georgia. After leaving the Black Crowes he went on to form the Brand New Immortals with guitarist David Ryan Harris and drummer Kenny Cresswell. Colt played bass for...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Steve Gorman
  Steve Gorman
  Steve Gorman is a musician best known as the drummer of the American hard rock band The Black Crowes. He also spent some time as the drummer for British rock band Stereophonics.- Early career :...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Eddie Harsch
  Eddie Harsch
  Eddie Harsch is a Canadian-American keyboardist and current member of Detroit-based jam band Bulldog. Previously, he was The Black Crowes' keyboardist from 1991 to 2006. Harsch first joined Bulldog during The Black Crowes' hiatus, which lasted from early 2002 to early 2005...
  
   – keyboards

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1992	The Billboard 200	1

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	"Hotel Illness"	Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...	1
	"Remedy"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
		The Billboard Hot 100	48
	"Sting Me"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
	"Thorn in My Pride"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
		The Billboard Hot 100	80
1993	"Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	40
	"Sometimes Salvation"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	7