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Shake Your Money Maker by Black Crowes
Shake Your Money Maker is an album by Black Crowes, released in 1990. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 237 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hard to Handle”, on 94 lists with a best position of #21.
Shake Your Money Maker, the Black Crowes' debut, landed on Def American on February 13, 1990, and it's a greasy, grinning slab of rock and roll from a band out of Atlanta that sounds like it never heard of the '80s. George Drakoulias, who had signed them to the label, produced it, and it's the only Crowes album with guitarist Jeff Cease alongside Chris and Rich Robinson, Johnny Colt and Steve Gorman.
It's all swagger, Southern-fried blues rock with a strut in its step, a raspy howl riding on crunchy, loose-limbed guitars. "She Talks to Angels" and "Hard to Handle" both went to number one on the Mainstream Rock chart, and "Jealous Again" and "Twice as Hard" charted too. The title comes from an Elmore James blues song, which isn't actually on the album. It climbed to number four on the Billboard 200, sold more than 5 million copies, and remains their biggest seller.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Shake Your Money Maker on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard to Handle#241 of all time | 94 | #21 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | She Talks to Angels | 76 | #73 | – | 1991–2026 | |
| 3 | Jealous Again | 33 | #171 | – | 1990–2025 | |
| 4 | Twice as Hard | 34 | #228 | – | 1990–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.