Comments on: Black Crowes Accuse Gretchen Wilson of Copyright Infringement

By: Country Boy

Country Boy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:31:14 +0000

This does not suprise me, I am aware of another song that I believe has been infringed on by the same artist, Wish I knew who the attorneys are for Black Crows I would sure give them so more ammunition.

By: diana

diana — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:04 +0000

sue her… same keys? same phrasing? hearing hers theres no mistake i was hearing an old favorite “the Black Crowes”

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:01:48 +0000

Well, this is kinda a tough one. Both songs are in the key of D and the first two vocal lines of each verse of the Gretchen Wilson song use the exact same phrasing and melody as the black Crowes song. That, however, is where the similarity ends. I don’t know if these two things are enough to constitute plagerism or not.

By: Rob Rockitt

Rob Rockitt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:37:28 +0000

I guess I will have to listen to these again. I didn’t hear it last night, but obviously there is something there that I missed.

By: COD

COD — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:57:36 +0000

I’m with the first commenter on this. There have been a lot of copyright cases that I simply didn’t hear the resemblance, yet the original artist won. This one IMHO is a slam dunk for The Black Crowes.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:31:03 +0000

You seriously can’t hear that the vocal melody in the verses is exactly the same?
I’ve wondered about your hearing after reading some of your album reviews, but the similarities here are tough to miss.

I thought it was a cover version gone wrong when I first heard the TNT commercial.

Crowes: “Always drunk on Sunday…”
Wilson: “double shift on Monday…”
Sometimes great minds think alike, and sometimes they get their asses sued for plagarism.

Gretchen Wilson is a great singer, but her songs are plain awful.