The Wanee Festival announced its lineup on Monday, revealing that Widespread Panic and Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band would headline both nights of the annual event. In the slot below the headliners was a name many questioned: As The Crow Flies. Today, JamBase confirms that the band is a new project by Chris Robinson, who has defiantly strayed away from all Black Crowes associations until now. “Look forward to seeing y’all down at Wanee! We’re gonna have some fun!”, he stated.

While Chris’s brother Rich is currently on tour with The Magpie Salute, which Chris once called “a Black Crowes tribute band” in an interview with Howard Stern, Chris has spent the last couple of years touring with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, creating new music, and throwing shame toward his brother for being unable to “come up with an idea outside of that [The Magpie Salute project] anyway.”

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A recent interview with Rich Robinson, conducted by Alan Paul for Guitar World, Rich Robinson delivered a thoughtful response to the situation, explaining “It’s a complicated… If Chris had just kept his mouth shut all year and just decided to play songs that he and I wrote … I mean that’s his prerogative and that’s cool and he’ll bring himself to those songs. The fact that he ran his mouth all year about how stupid [The Magpie Salute] is and how we’re just a cover band … and then to turn 180 degrees and just be a cover band with a B squad, it’s very hypocritical. But, he has every right to do that and if for whatever reason that he’s doing that, he has every right and I wish him well. At the end of the day, although there’s a glaring hypocrisy to the whole thing, he can do that and I wish him well. I’ve got Marc Ford.” You can watch the segment of the interview below:

While there are no concrete details about what to musically expect from ATCF, JamBase points out that there are several former Black Crowes players that appear on the festival’s lineup. As the band’s name suggest an association with The Black Crowes, keyboardist Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood) and guitarist Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) will both be in attendance with their respective bands. JamBase also reports that rumors of former Crowes guitarist Audley Freed are prevalent.

Check out the Wanee lineup below:

[H/T JamBase]

[photo by Emily Butler]