The Black Sorrows developed a strong fan following and garnered wide critical acclaim for their recordings and superb live performances. After starting life as an acoustic cover band, they evolved into a full electric ensemble that wrote their own material, releasing a string of commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums in the 1980s and 1990s. These albums included "A Place in the World", "Dear Children" (an Australian Top 20 album in 1987), "Hold On to Me" (peaked at No. 7, 1988), "Harley & Rose" (peaked at No. 3, 1990), "Better Times" (peaked at No. 13, 1992) and compilation "The Chosen Ones – Greatest Hits" (peaked at No. 4, 1993). Top 30 hit singles by the band were "Chained to the Wheel" (which peaked at No. 9 in 1989), "Harley + Rose" (1990) "Never Let Me Go" (1990), and "Snake Skin Shoes" (1994).