Album: “The Best of Blind Melon: Tones of Home [Limited]”

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Blind Melon: Shannon Hoon (vocals, acoustic guitar); Christopher Thorn, Rogers Stevens (guitar); Brad Smith (bass guitar, background vocals); Glen Graham (drums). <p>Recording information: 1992 - 1996. <p>A selection of tracks mostly culled from Blind Melon's first two albums, with the addition of a couple of inclusions from NICO, the collection released after singer Shannon Hoon's 1995 death from an overdose, as well as previously unreleased live material. Though the still-fresh and gloriously strange-sounding "No Rain" is the most instantly recognizable song here, the compilation also spotlights the band's more progressive tendencies in cuts like the Led Zep-flavored "2X4," while "Soup"'s flavorful combination of gentle acoustic textures and hard-edged rocking hints at a sadly unrealized promise of greatness.