that also remain in rotation today. 1990. I was 13 and fully immersed in "my own" music. A little known garage band from Atlanta called Mr. Crowe's Garden signed with a major label and released _Shake Your Money Maker_, an album of short, catchy blues-driven rock numbers that appropriated the aesthetic of The Rolling Stones and The Faces, giving it a much-needed, um, facelift. It was huge hit, peaking at #4 on Billboard's charts and featuring two #1 songs: _Hard to Handle_ (an Otis Redding cover) and _She Talks to Angels_, an original about a woman's struggle with heroin that became a high school dance ballad standby. However, it wasn't until 1992's release of _The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion_ that the Crowes took on an all-female, black mini-chorus (reminiscent of Steve Kimock and Lou Reed) and really came into their own thick, swampy sound. Right around the time time general public abandoned them, I became a huge fan, buying all their albums, collecting bootlegs and, in my lifetime, attending more than four dozen concerts. _Southern Harmony_ remains one of the greatest—and most underappreciated—rock records of all time, providing some amazing concert standbys like _My Morning Song_. Really though, the album plays like one continuous song that tells an amazing story of birth, loss and re-birth; of struggle, of victory, of confusion, love and anger. It's regularly part of my rotation and regardless of your musical inclinations, I would recommend giving it a listen.