The new sets will be available this fall

World-renowned rock band The Black Crowes have announced the box set of their chart-topping sophomore album, The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion, via American Recordings/UMe. The album, which entered the US Billboard album chart at No. 1 upon release in 1992, was named after a post-Civil War southern hymnal and is home to some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Remedy,” “Sting Me,” and “Thorn in My Pride” which were No. 1 on the Billboard Main Stream Rock Airplay chart for a combined total of 21 weeks. Rich and Chris Robinson, alongside producer George Drakoulias, revisited the archives for the instant classic album and created a special super deluxe edition featuring unreleased studio recordings, rare B-sides, a live performance from Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX, on February 6, 1993, and a newly remastered album from the original quarter-inch production master. Highlights for the forthcoming box set include 14 unreleased recordings, including a new mix of the Memphis soul classic song “99 Pounds” originally by Ann Peebles and written by Don Bryant, and a previously unreleased studio recording of “Miserable.”

At the end of the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion recording sessions in early 1992, the band performed live on the famed Southern Tracks Studio floor in Atlanta on January 4, 1992. The session was captured by a film crew and, true to The Black Crowes form, turned into a party. These never-before-released until now, live, studio recordings, feature five songs, including their cover of Ry Cooder’s “Boomer’s Story.” Also included in the super deluxe edition, Southern Harmony Live, featuring all the tracks off the album, performed live in Houston on February 6, 1993. This legendary and much-bootlegged show has now been mixed from the 24-track tapes and is available alongside the original album, which has been remastered from the quarter-inch production master.

The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is available for pre-order now on stunning 4 LP, 3 CD, 2 CD, and single LP formats, which will be released on December 1st. An exclusive, limited edition “Remedy” Lyric T-shirt or Trucker Hat will also be available as Fan Packs bundled with the single LP in the Black Crowes official store. A super deluxe digital audio will also be available to preorder on October 6th. Fans who preorder the digital super deluxe will immediately receive a new mix of the Memphis soul classic song “99 Pounds.”

“We’ve always thought that the music on Southern Harmony and Musical Companion was made of a certain magic that was in the air for us in 1992,” Chris Robinson shares. “This special box set represents all the ingredients of the spell we were under.”

“I always felt that Southern Harmony was us coming into our own as a band and creating our sound,” adds Rich Robinson. “We made the record in eight days. Every song was one or two takes. No more than that. It was a snapshot of a band possessing all of its powers, and it still resonates with me to this day.”

Both the LP and CD box sets include a reproduction of the original 132-page promotional hymn book featuring insights on the record and a set of lithographs of classic images from the Southern Harmony photo sessions. All LPs in the box are 180-gram vinyl.

A limited edition, e-comm exclusive of the 4 LP Super Deluxe version will be signed by Chris and Rich Robinson.

The Deluxe 2 CD set features the 2023 remaster of the original The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, plus a bonus CD, The Best of the Box, containing nine rare and unreleased sections from the super deluxe box set.

Single LP 2023 limited edition remaster of Southern Harmony and Musical Companion will be pressed on 140-gram black vinyl, with the audio sourced from the original quarter-inch production master tape.

CD 1: The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion

1. Sting Me
2. Remedy
3. Thorn In My Pride
4. Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye
5. Sometimes Salvation
6. Hotel Illness
7. Black Moon Creeping
8. No Speak No Slave
9. My Morning Song
10. Time Will Tell

CD 2: More Companions: Unreleased, Outtakes and B-Sides

1. 99 Pounds
2. Miserable
3. Rainy Day Women No 12 & 35
4. Boomer’s Story
5. Darling of The Underground Press
6. Sting Me (Slow)
7. Bad Luck Blue Eyes, Goodbye
8. Sometimes Salvation
9. Black Moon Creeping

CD 3: Southern Harmony Live: November 3, 1993 Houston, TX

1. No Speak No Slave
2. Sting Me
4. My Morning Song
5. Jam
6. Thorn in My Pride
7. Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye
8. Black Moon Creeping
9. Hotel Illness
10. Sometimes Salvation
11. Remedy