For their first album of new material in 15 years The Black Crowes look to their past and deliver vintage, retro-rock in workmanlike fashion throughout Happiness Bastards. The cover art
A compendium of remarkable continuity that belies its stylistic span, Highway Butterfly is quite a haul. And that’s apart from the backstory of its title revolving around a mythic eighteen-wheeler.
From the looks and sounds of it, the brothers Robinson have put aside their public differences and are now crisscrossing America celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Black Crowes’ debut
Heady sounds generated by a hirsute bunch, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s Big Moon Ritual might seem a contrived throwback to a past long, if the music didn’t sound like it came perfectly natural to them.
Bob Weir, Chris Robinson and Jackie Greene are in the midst of their first tour together. We check in on them for this riveting take on Bertha by the Grateful Dead.
A look at the tours announced this week including Billy Bragg’s Guthrie tribute.
Photos from the “Phil Lesh Night” of Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s GAMH run.
Grateful Dead / Furthur bassist sat in with Chris Robinson’s band for a whole set.
Of the hundreds of outdoor venues Phil Lesh has played over the past 50 years, the Grateful Dead/Furthur bassist ranks Red Rocks in the top two along with The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. In fact, there’s a plaque at the Morrison, Colorado venue that says as much, so you knew last night’s Furthur show at Red Rocks had the makings of something special.
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For the start of the second set, Phil and Bobby’s band welcomed Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and Chris Robinson Brotherhood to lead them through classic Pigpen-sung tunes The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion) and Hard To Handle as well as the Furthur debut of Bob Dylan’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere. Robinson has a long history with Weir and Lesh dating back to the Crowes opening for the Dead in Tampa on April 7, 1995. More recently, Chris did a few tours with Phil and Friends and performed back in August with Weir and Jackie Greene at the Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. Back on March 12, 2010, Robinson first sat in with Furthur at Phil Lesh’s 70th Birthday Bash, where he sung a number of songs including The Stranger.
Chris Robinson w/ Furthur – The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)
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