
Eight hazy days is all it took for the band to record album number 2, released on May 12, 1992. Having done the pre-work, the band was ready to capture their live sound onto tape.
The band of Chris Robinson on vocals, Rich Robinson and Marc Ford on guitar, Johnny Colt on bass, Steve Gorman on drums and Eddie Harsch on keyboards are on fire. And the jam live spirit drips from the speakers.

Wikipedia tells me that it was the first time an album featured four album rock number-one hits. The previous record was set by the great Tom Petty in 1989, with three number-one rock hits. The album itself reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 album chart, propelled by the success of these singles.
The album’s name comes from an influential 1835 hymn and tune book compiled by William Walker. While I never knew that at the time, I did think the title was unique.

Sting Me
We needed rock and roll to reset from the glamorized rock and metal that did the rounds in MTV.
That’s what “Sting Me” is about. It shows the bands intention and confirms that the first album, “Shake Your Moneymaker” was not a fluke.

“If you feel like a riot, don’t you deny it” are the opening lines and man, with all that was happening in LA, it could have been the protest song of the rioters, when the shitty verdict was handed down to the four white policemen in their beating of African-American Rodney King.
And the Chorus is so Rolling Stones like, I love it.

Remedy
This song deserved to be a smash hit everywhere. It was the perfect amalgamation of blues rock and pop rock.
And I love the lead break on this from Marc Ford. It reminds me of the leads that Slash does with GNR and it’s something which Slash doesn’t get enough credit for, being a great blues rock player in the vein of Jeff Beck. And Marc Ford is up there as well, so underrated.
And how good arethe female backing vocals.
But the song is forgotten on streaming services, compared to the debut album songs like “Hard To Handle” at 132 million streams on Spotify and “She Talks To Angels” at 78.6 million streams, “Remedy” pales at 27.3 million streams.
I guess all the fans already have the album, and we’ve overdosed on it, so the last thing we want to do is to play it again on a streaming service.
Kind of like playing “Wanted Dead Or Alive”, “Enter Sandman” or “The Final Countdown” or “Kick Start My Heart”. Then again, people are playing those songs in the millions each week.
Thorn in My Pride
The acoustic guitar playing is so Led Zep like and the lyrics of “my angels and my devils being the thorn in my pride” are favorites of mine. And Marc Ford brings it again in the lead department, with a very accomplished SRV like shred.

Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye
I like these kind of slow blues songs, like “Little Wing”, “Since I’ve Been Lovin You” and “Black Magic Woman”.
Actually Poison with Richie Kotzen wrote a killer track like this called “Until You Suffer (Fire and Ice) from the “Native Tongue” album, but no one purchased that album. So did Richie Sambora, with “Stranger In This Town”.

Sometimes Salvation
It’s a slow maybe mid temp blues rock song, about lessening your troubles, by hanging with less vultures, and wishing you had a nickel for every time you were tricked by some miracle.

Hotel Illness
It’s got this Beatles and Rolling Stones blues rock vibe and I like it.
Black Moon Creeping
I like the groove on this.

No Speak No Slave
The opening riff reminds me of “When The Levee Breaks”. It could easily be interchanged with a Corrosion of Conformity song.

My Morning Song
This should have been another hit off the album, but “Remedy” was so big that nothing else could measure up.
Time Will Tell
A Bob Marley cover, with acoustic guitars and gospel like backing vocals, as the band takes the reggae feel to the muddy waters of the Mississippi Delta and turns it into an acoustic blues rock track.

We loved the album in Australia. It charted as high as Number 6 on our ARIA charts and it earned a Gold Certification.

In the U.S market, it went to Number 1 on the Billboard charts and earned a 2x Platinum certification.
For a long time I called it “The Great Southern Harmony Musical Corruption”. So put it on and let it corrupt you.

Great album. Probably their best with Remedy and She Talks To Angels being their best songs, IMHO.
Great album and great live show when they came to town back in April/93. They had no idea where they were lol
Here’s Rich talking about Tbay back than as well in which I posted about this…
https://superdekes.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/bumfk-town/amp/
So BumFuck town hey.
And you know bowling alleys just didn’t survive. All the ones around my local have all gone.
Yeah Bumfuck Town lol..of all the places to write about lol…best article ever lol
I was laughing hard man.
So was I lol….I guess at the time when you’re touring behind two albums that sold millions and u show up here it has to mess u up lol
One of the best gigs I watched was TBC. This was in the mid 2000’s and yep Chris was still lubricating and the band was on fire jamming.
Pete! I’m going to steal the term ‘fire jamming’ that is brilliant!
Lol… steal away… steal away… the night
Speaking of which Pete it’s hard to believe that Rhoads passed away 40 years ago today!
Fa rowd
40 years.. and his music is still played to this day.
I’m pretty sure artists who passed away in the 1950s didn’t get their tunes played in the 1990s.
Great album and Remedy is just a smashing song.
Love this one. I can’t believe it was only 8 days. So many great albums that the band went in recorded and was out before you know it. More bands should do that. Stop wasting time fixing this or that. Go with your instincts and pump it out.
I agree
Do the prep, get in and bash it out.