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"She Talks to Angels" is a song by American rock band the Black Crowes. It is the eighth track on their first album, Shake Your Money Maker (1990), and was the fourth single released from the album in 1991.
Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle", [7] and acoustic ballad "She Talks to Angels", both achieved top 30 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991. The band opened for ZZ Top on a tour sponsored by Miller Beer, from which they were fired in March 1991 after Chris Robinson's verbal tirade aimed at Miller. [7]
When the album came out in February 1990, critical reception was mostly favorable. Mark Coleman called Shake Your Money Maker "the kind of streamlined, supertight groove album that bar-band dreams are made of" in a review for Rolling Stone, [21] whose readers and critics later voted the Black Crowes "Best New American Band" at the end of 1990; [23] the band appeared on the cover of the ...
[2] [3] "Hard to Handle" and "She Talks to Angels" both reached number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. [ 4 ] In 1992, The Black Crowes released the studio album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion , which reached number one on the Billboard 200 and went two times platinum in the US.
In 2008, lead singer Darius Rucker recalled that he had just listened to the song "She Talks to Angels" by the Black Crowes for the first time and was listening to a record by blues singer Bonnie Raitt and "in one stream of consciousness" wrote the lyrics to the song. [4]
In the blind auditions, he sang "She Talks to Angels" by Black Crowes. The season's four coaches, John Legend, Gwen Stefani, Niall Horan, and Reba McEntire turned their chairs for him. Before choosing his coach, Huntley brought his daughter, Stella, on stage where it was then revealed that she would pick his coach.
Sho' Nuff: The Complete Black Crowes is a five-disc box set from The Black Crowes.It contains their first four studio albums and a bonus live EP.The studio albums were remastered, contain bonus tracks and each include a screen saver and music videos presented in multimedia format.
Following the success of the band's first top-40 hit, "She Talks to Angels", the song re-entered the Hot 100 and peaked at number 26 in August 1991, becoming the Black Crowes' highest position on the chart. The same month, the song was re-released in the UK and reached a new peak of number 39.