When the Black Crowes released SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER in 1989, the alternative music revolution was a couple of years off as hair bands & mall queens cluttered the airwaves. The Crowes' debut was a straightforward rock & roll album named for an Elmore James song & recorded by a band fronted by an impossibly skinny lead singer & a pair of riff-happy guitarists. Sure, songs such as " Sister Luck, Twice As Hard" & " Jealous Again" may have struck a little close to the sound the Rolling Stone