Crow-Crow Music (1969)

Crow were an interesting American heavy blues band that are recognized for their song "Evil Woman", which was later covered by Black Sabbath and included on their first album, having some relevance in the British charts.
Founded in Minneapolis, Crow barely had three years of history, from 1969 to 1972, until they returned in 1980 with some line-up changes and were active until around 2010, performing frequently in different North American states.
Its initial lineup consisted of vocalist Dave Wagner, guitarist Dick Wiegand, drummer Harry Nehls, bassist Larry Wiegand, and keyboardist Dave Middlemist.
Already in 1968 and under the name of South 40, this same formation had published an album of little impact.
In 1969 already as Crow and with the drummer Denny Craswell, replacement of Nehls, they signed a contract with the independent label Amaret, a subsidiary of Columbia Records and published their first album “Crow Music”. From here, in the following two years, they reach their peak placing half a dozen songs in the North American top 100. In this first album, Crow shows a powerful exercise of heavy blues rock with brushstrokes of funk as it is demonstrated in cuts like the aforementioned ""Evil Woman", a crude heavy rock that is practically identical to the version that Black Sabbath would later make, the aggressive and heavy hard rock “White Eyes”, the hypnotic “Thoughts”, the funk “Da da Song” and “Time To Make A Turn”, the lysergic “Busy Day” or the psychedelic jam blues “Sleepy Woman”.