Editing The Black Crowes (section)

===Height of fame: 1990–1995===
The Black Crowes released their first studio album, ''[[Shake Your Money Maker (album)|Shake Your Money Maker]]'', in 1990.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> Supported by the singles "[[Hard to Handle (song)|Hard to Handle]]", "[[She Talks to Angels]]", "[[Jealous Again (The Black Crowes song)|Jealous Again]]", "[[Twice As Hard]]", "Sister Luck", and "Seeing Things", the album received [[RIAA certification|multi-platinum certification]] and eventually sold more than five million copies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/black_crowes/bio.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020522043050/http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/black_crowes/bio.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 22, 2002|title=The Black Crowes Bio – The Black Crowes Career|work=MTV Artists}}</ref> Their cover of [[Otis Redding]]'s "Hard to Handle",<ref name="LarkinHR"/> and acoustic ballad "She Talks to Angels", both achieved top 30 positions on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in 1991. The band opened for [[ZZ Top]] on a tour sponsored by [[Miller Beer]], from which they were fired in March 1991 after Chris Robinson's verbal tirade aimed at Miller.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The band launched its own tour that May and later took part in a ''[[Monsters of Rock]]'' tour in [[Europe]],<ref name="LarkinHR"/> where they opened for [[Metallica]], [[AC/DC]], [[Mötley Crüe]] and [[Queensrÿche]].

Due to the prevalence of [[Chuck Leavell]]'s [[piano]] and [[organ (music)|organ]] parts on the first release, in 1991 the band hired a keyboardist of its own, [[Eddie Harsch]]. He became a permanent member of the group beginning with the "High as the Moon" tour in 1992.

After replacing guitarist Jeff Cease with [[Marc Ford]] from blues-rock power trio Burning Tree, the band released its second album ''[[The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion]]'' in 1992.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The album debuted at number 1 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. The effort spawned the singles "[[Remedy (The Black Crowes song)|Remedy]]", "Sting Me", "Thorn in My Pride" and "Hotel Illness", all of which topped the ''Billboard'' [[Album Rock Tracks]] chart. "Remedy" and "Thorn in My Pride" also charted on the Hot 100 in 1992.<ref>[[VH1]] Biography</ref>

In 1994, the now six-piece band released ''[[Amorica]]'', after scrapping the unreleased album ''Tall'' the previous year.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The album eventually achieved Gold status, selling over 500,000 copies. The cover featured a picture of a woman's crotch wearing a [[U.S. flag]] thong with visible pubic hair, which was taken from a 1976 issue of ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]'' magazine.<ref name="Boston Globe">{{cite news |last=Morse |first=Steve |title=The Black Crowes: Rock rebels take home-grown spirit on tour |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=18 |date=March 23, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQgEAAAAMBAJ&q=amorica&pg=PA74|title=What is all of this Crowe-ing about ''Amorica'' censorship|last=Christman|first=Ed|date=December 10, 1994|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=74|access-date=May 11, 2010}}</ref> As some stores would not carry the album because of the cover, a different version was released simultaneously with a solid black background, showing only the triangle featuring the flag.