Amorica

This article is about the Black Crowes album. For the region of Brittany, see Armorica.
Amorica
a close-up photo of woman’s crotch clad in an American flag bikini bottom. Her black pubic hair is noticeably protruding. “Amorica” is written in lower case with a period near her navel.
The original cover of the album.
Studio album by
The Black Crowes
ReleasedNovember 1, 1994 (1994-11-01)
RecordedMay–August 1994
Genre
Length54:13
LabelAmerican
Producer
The Black Crowes chronology
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
(1992) 		Amorica
(1994) 		Three Snakes and One Charm
(1996)
Censored cover
an American flag bikini bottom on a black background. “Amorica” is written in lower case with a period above it.
Editions sold by big box retailers have a cropped image.

Amorica (stylized as amorica.) is the third studio album by U.S. rock band The Black Crowes. Spawned from the band's unreleased Tall album sessions, Amorica was released on November 1, 1994, on American Recordings. Amorica reached gold status in the United States, shipping 500,000 copies.

The album cover notably featured a close-up photo of the pelvic region of a woman wearing a United States flag bikini bottom with pubic hair showing at the top. The photo was taken from the cover of the July 1976 issue of Hustler magazine. The album with this cover was subsequently banned from chain stores like Walmart and Kmart, resulting in the cover being censored with a solid black background displaying only the garment.[2]

Other songs recorded during the Amorica sessions were "Feathers," "Tied Up and Swallowed" and "Chevrolet" (a Taj Mahal cover), which were later released as B-sides, bonus tracks or on compilation albums.

  1. ^ a b Kemp, Mark (2004). "The Black Crowes". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 75–76. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  2. ^ Morse, Steve (March 23, 1995). "The Black Crowes: Rock rebels take home-grown spirit on tour". The Boston Globe. p. 18.