Black Crowes new album
Joanne reports:

Finally got around to reading from the 1/8 Boston Globe about the Black Crowes’ new CD, produced by Kevin Shirley, and there are references to Steven and Joe. Sounds like a great CD. Here’s the relevant part of the article.
From the Boston Globe, 1/8/99, pp. D15-D18,

The Black Crowes’ Tough "Side", by Steve Morse:

The new album, filled with whiplash slide guitar and supercharged vocals reminiscent of the band’s first album, "Shake Your Moneymaker", was produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, who produced Aerosmith’s last album, "Nine Lives". He was recommended by Aerosmith’s Joe Perry when Chris Robinson caught up to Perry, Steven Tyler, and the rest of the band last year in Los Angleles. The Crowes had once opened for Aerosmith, but hadn’t seen them in years.
[Chris Robinson said] "I hadn’t seen Steven Tyler in nine years or something, but he comes over to me, gives me a hug, and says ‘I’m so glad you shaved your beard off. You look great!’ And I said, ‘Gee, I didn’t even know you knew I had a beard’. Then I went to see them play in Anaheim, and Joe Perry says, ‘Hey, you’ve got to go to New York and meet Kevin. His nickname is Caveman. He’d be perfect for you’. So I said to myself that Joe Perry knows what he’s talking about. I was going to New York the next weekend for something else...but I called to meet Kevin and we hit it off instantly."
Perry, who describes the new Crowes album as "my favorite record right now", recalls telling Robinson: "I don’t know how you’ll get along personally, but he’ll get your sound".
Elaborating on Shirley, Perry says, "He’s called Caveman because he looks like an Australian kick boxer, and he has hair way past his shoulders. He’s earthy in his approach. He can be sweet, but he can also be one of the most bullheaded people that you’ll ever meet".
...Robinson says, "This record is for a Saturday night. I think you couuld put it on between [the Rolling Stones’] ‘Exile on Main Street’ and [AC/DC’s] ‘Back in Black’ or ‘Rocks’ and those other great Aerosmith records...."