Keith Richards once said about the Black Crowes…” they have me down pretty well.” The riff in this song was played in open G tuning. Many musicians have played in that tuning but Keith Richards made a career out of it. Songs like Start Me Up, Can You Hear Me Knocking, etc… were wrote in that tuning and has a certain sound that you can only get with that.
Rich Robinson the guitar player and brother Chris the singer wrote this song and it does have a Stones feel to it.
The Black Crowes album Shake Your Money Maker was released in 1990. This album shocked me when I heard it. After longing for something with that 70’s tone…here it was with this new band. I always thought they sounded like The Stones/Faces musically with a Rod Stewart type lead singer.
Jealous Again was the first single off of the album. It only peaked at #75 in the Billboard 100 in 1990. After this single they released “Hard To Handle” and it recieved much more airplay.
Jealous Again
Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
Well I feel like dirty laundry
Sending sickness on down the line
Tell you why
‘Cause I’m jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, I’m jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby
Always drunk on Sunday
Try’n to feel like I’m at home
Smell the gasoline burning
Boys out feeling nervous and cold
[Repeat 1st Chorus]
Stop, understand me
I ain’t afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain’t afraid of ever losing faith in you
Never felt like smiling
Sugar wanna’ kill me yet
Find me loose lipped and laughing
Singing songs ain’t got no regrets
[Repeat 1st and 2nd Chorus]
Don’t you think I want to
Don’t you think I would
Don’t you think I’d tell you baby
If I only could
Am I acting crazy
Am I just too proud
Am I just plain lazy
Am I, Am I, Am I, ever
[Repeat 1st Chorus]
Great album. I gave up listening to anything remotely popular around the time of its release. If you remotely like Keef and The Stones, it’s a must listen!
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This album and band were so refreshing to hear when it came out. It was like an antidote to the hair bands.
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It was truly like an oasis in a desert…I know what you mean. It was like finding new old Faces songs.
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Love this album. Amazing that Jealous Again only got to 73 on the charts. Another one of those tunes that has longevity but didn’t chart high.
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This is one of the few new songs our band played at the time…yea I thought it got in the top 40 anyway.
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I like it. Seemed like it did well on Rock Radio back then even if it didn’t sell as a single.
I would say they probably took that moniker “America’s Rolling Stones” for a few years after it had been absent for a few, after J.Geils Band went more pop (since so many called the ’70s Geils “America’s Rolling Stones.”)
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Yea they were a breath of fresh air to me at that time. Just two years before there is no way this would have hit because it sounded straight from the early seventies… at least a lot of the songs did.
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timing is everything in music!
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Love that band and record! It’s a great song and I agree it has a cool Stones vibe. I also dig “She Talks to Angels” and their cover of “Hard to Handle”.
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There are some really good songs on that album…it was so good hearing this coming out of the production heavy 80s.
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This album had it all, from the dance tunes to the junkie blues. Another one I listened to a lot when it first came out.
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I’ve like the Black Crowes since the first time I heard them, but never really thought about the Richards/Stones influence. It certainly is clear here!
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I play with that open G tuning sometimes…you can play 70 percent of the Stones catalog with that!
I really liked it also.
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Have to go there again. I used to use it a lot, but it’s been years.
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Yeah I am now wondering how I never made the Stones connection either. Gotta go relisten to this one and I also liked Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
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I really loved this album when it came out. They are from around the parts where I grew up so they were huge. It was great to see local band go big.
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I loved it as well… it was a throwback to a sound that I really liked.
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Oooo… This album rocks for me.
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Great tune and great band. Yeah, they’re derivative of Humble Pie, Thin Lizzy, that whole 70s hard rock scene, but they’re very good musicians, songwriters and Chris Robinson is a great lead singer. They’re like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in that way. Very solid.
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I love this band. They got sandwiched between the fading hair bands and the grunge movement. They were old time, jamming rock -n- roll. Bring them on ANY time. I wish they would come back. They haven’t had any new material in 11 years.
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They just regrouped a few years ago…the brothers fought but I think they are together now.
Yea they were so awesome at the time…we needed them
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Brothers in bands. When do they NOT fight?
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I know…and it’s usually worse than regular… the Kinks were probably the worse…and Oasis
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