With the recent announcement that the Black Crowes have officially broken up, via a statement from guitarist Rich Robinson, due to what Rich basically described as unreasonable demands from his brother Chris with regards to members shares in the group between the three main main members (including founding drummer Steve Gorman), it seems as if Chris Robinson isn’t too broken up about, well, the break up.
In a recent interview with New Times Blog, the singer took a slight jab at what he saw as stagnation with the Crowes, which turned into his reasoning to form his Chris Robinson Brotherhood, “It came from songwriting. The Black Crowes don’t write songs anymore,” he said. “They don’t think of the present or the future. I like making albums and playing concerts. I was sitting on two EPs’ worth of written songs.”
While the Crowes end a career that began in 1989, and had plenty of highs and lows, Robinson is settling into the role CRB has played in his growth as an artist rather nicely, “The Black Crowes were a rebellion. This [Chris Robinson Brotherhood] is a pragmatic reaction to how I feel. The only revolutionary thing we’re doing is staying out of the music business. There’s Olive Gardens and Red Lobsters in music. We just don’t eat there. We’re grassroots.”
With all things in life, the show must go on, and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood is playing that “farm-to-table psychedelic rock” across the country, from venue to venue. The group will play Huntington, NY’s The Paramount on Thursday, February 19th. Purchase tickets HERE.
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