The Black Crowes
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Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, December 1994
FORBIDDEN PLEASURES ARE GETTING harder to find. What price true rebel music when disco, metal, mid-'70s pop and all the grizzled outlaws of yesteryear are ...
Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes: Live At The Greek (SPV)
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, September 2000
Recorded live in October’99, a scorching blues-rock hit-packed double album like they used to make ‘em. ...
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Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, 2001
Hangin' with Oasis, The Rolling Stones and Plant'n'Page, marriage to Kate Hudson and why they hate Rick Rubin - the Robinson Bros. tell all.
File format: mp3; file sizes: 52.1mb, interview length: 54' 15" sound quality: ****
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The Black Crowes: Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 26 May 1990
PITY ALCOHOLICS anonymous Dogs D'Amour. The Black Crowes are booked as support act to the Dogs for a string of shows next month, shows which ...
The Black Crowes: Money For Old Strings
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 26 January 1991
When THE BLACK CROWES went into the studio to record their debut LP their only ambition was to make "a f**king record". Shake Your Money ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, August 1991
Guilty of making music that was going out of style in 1973. Guilty of flying the tattered flag of rock'n'roll idealism. Guilty, indeed, "of never ...
Live Review by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 24 August 1991
METAL FATIGUE ...
The Black Crowes: Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Black Crowe
Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, September 1991
Currently America's hottest new Faces, The Black Crowes have made a huge name for themselves with just one ass-kickin' LP, mucho slagging off of "the ...
Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas, the Acid Test of Heavy Metal Morals: The Black Crowes
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 10 October 1991
The Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas are cunningly contrived queries designed to probe the immoral depths to which rock stars will stoop. Or not, as the ...
The Black Crowes: Afghan Rebels
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, 1992
It's late night in Dallas and the Black Crowes are partying in rock's most happening dressing room, an Aladdin's den of fairy lights, Afghan rugs ...
The Black Crowes: The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (Def American 512 263-2)
Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, June 1992
ONE DAY, maybe soon, The Black Crowes will be the biggest rock'n'roll band in Atlanta, Georgia — and following that, the world. Their debut LP ...
The Black Crowes: The Hordern Pavilion Sydney, Australia
Live Review by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone, 20 August 1992
THE BLACK Crowes flew almost 12,000 miles to speak to the disfranchised. The 4500 people who crammed into the Atlanta band's single Sydney show were ...
Good Olde Boys: The Black Crowes didn't do it
Profile and Interview by Mark Kemp, L.A. Weekly, 19 November 1992
The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock'n'roll is an arena in which you re-create yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just ...
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, January 1993
THE CORRECT ROCK 'N' ROLL ANSWER to society's "What are you rebelling against?" has always been Brando's "Whaddya got?" In this regard, Black Crowes frontman ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, December 1994
AMORICA, ACCORDING to Chris Robinson, is "somewhere north of hell and south of heaven", a Utopia for the frazzled and the put-upon. Amorica the album ...
The Black Crowes: Stoned Soul Picnic
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, January 1995
MUSIC SEEPS OUT of the streets in Memphis. It's everywhere, in bars and clubs, but also somehow just hanging in the air, almost as if ...
Not Shaven But Raven: The Black Crowes at Newport Centre
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 15 January 1995
WHEN THEY emerged in 1990, it was difficult not to hate the Black Crowes: they were too retro for their own damn good. Led by ...
The Black Crowes: God gave rock'n'roll to them
Report and Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 20 January 1995
The Black Crowes are not just a rock band; they're claiming their birthright, as lead singer Chris Robinson tells David Sinclair ...
The Black Crowes: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Nina Antonia, MOJO, April 1995
WELCOME TO THE DUDE ranch aka the Royal Albert Hall. Legions of longhairs, clutching their Amorica Or Bust tour posters, strut into the luscious red ...
Black Crowes: The Garage, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
CHRIS ROBINSON could captain the Deep South Olympics grinning team. Where we see a squat, black-ceilinged closet on the Holloway Road, Chris evidently sees some ...
The Black Crowes: Three Snakes and One Charm
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, August 1996
The band's fourth album, recorded over a two-month period in a house in Atlanta. Jack Puig co-produces once again. ...
The Black Crowes: Astoria, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 30 November 1996
A DOZEN CRIMSON rugs strewn across a stage; the waft of incense burning sweetly from the monitors; an anaemic band clad only in the finest ...
The Black Crowes: The Garage, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, April 1997
CHRIS ROBINSON HAS perfected the skinny, rollin'-eyed, raggedy Jesus look you don't see outside of by-pass protests and early '70s festival documentaries. ...
Freebirds All: Southern Rock's Undying Appeal
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, The Village Voice, 16 December 1998
SOUTHERN ROCK'S masterworks show this century a viable southern heroism: the quest to overcome the dread of Jim Crow and the pall of ruined empire. ...
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 1999
THIS ALBUM rocks. And rolls. And nigh on rollicks. Where their last album loped, this one struts. The record it's most like is their 1990 ...
Black Magic From The Amen Corner: The Black Crowes’ voodoo resurrection
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, Creative Loafing, 9 January 1999
Jesus of Nazareth Chris Robinson ain't. Some detractors drew a purely visual comparison along these lines in recent years, when the Black Crowes' singer/songwriter wore ...
The Black Crowes: By Your Side (Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, February 1999
Whenever I shoot pool, my first jukebox quarter inevitably goes to 'Hard To Handle' by the Black Crowes, which inspires such grand delusions of well-endowment ...
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 5 May 2001
FOLKS, I'M AS big an enemy of hoary old "rock" and all its many cousins as most anyone I know. I can’t abide Oasis and ...
Report and Interview by Ernesto De Pascale, Rock's Backpages, 8 September 2001
Their "funky gospel rock" may be out-of-fashion, but the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson is unrepentant. Ernesto de Pascale meets him as he entertains the faithful ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2008
No irony. No significant changes. No problem! ...
The Black Crowes: The Return of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Interview by Paul Elliott, MOJO, April 2008
After seven years in the wilderness, the Black Crowes, America's freewheelin', dope-smokin', warring Blues Brotherhood are back. And this time their singer Chris Robinson is ...
The Black Crowes: Rook Back In Anger!
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, March 2013
IT'S A BEAR! It's a leviathan! It's The Black Crowes, back together. ...
see also Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The
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