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"Warpaint is the first studio album from the Black Crowes in seven years not that you can really tell. The Crowes still bang out that old-school boogie that might be three or four decades old if it wasn`t brand-new.. If the Crowes are derivative, they wear that tag with pride; it`s exactly what their fans love about them... On Warpaint, the driving force is the blues. These eleven songs largely come from a place that`s darker and more hard-fought. The mood runs through the fire-and-brimstone of "Walk Believer Walk" and the dead-end setting of "Locust Street." ...Throughout the album, Robinson tells tales of loss and regret. Yet Robinson counters each lament with a reminder that his life was saved by rock & roll. Most of the rough patches, though, are forgivable, because the band sounds damn good. The Crowes may have gone through so many lineup changes that their Wikipedia page has a color-coded chronological chart, but they wound up with a winning hand. The key addition is Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, whose slashing slide work contributes tension and intricacy all over the album. The Black Crowes have fallen out, broken up and been written off as washed-up... But with Warpaint, for the first time in a long time, the Black Crowes seem like a band with a future." -- Alan Light, Rolling Stone
