“Wiser Time” by Black Crowes

"Wiser Time" sits on Amorica, the Black Crowes' third studio album, which American Recordings put out in 1994, and it catches the band in a rootsy, bittersweet mood. Chris and Rich Robinson wrote it, Chris sings with Rich harmonizing, and the band produced it with Jack Joseph-Puig, with Marc Ford and Rich on guitars, Johnny Colt on bass, Steve Gorman on drums and Eddie Harsch on keyboards.

Critics have kept it close: Classic Rock's Dave Everley counted it among 20 songs that tell the band's story, hearing sadness and longing under all that sweetness and slide guitar and tracing it back to country rock, Music & Media called the Robinsons' harmony perfect, and American Songwriter's Tina Benitez-Eves ranked it among the Crowes' 10 best. It climbed to number seven on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart, 15 in Canada and 34 in the UK.

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