Oasis has dominated headlines for reconciling brothers during the past couple of years. But the Black Crowes featured that nest back in 2019, when Chris and Rich Robinson resumed the group after a five-year breakup.
“This is something we started as kids,” notes guitarist Rich Robinson, 57, who started the band with his older brother and band frontman, Chris, as Mr. Crowe’s Garden in 1984 in Atlanta. “I was still in high school … living in my parents’ house. There’s always been that element. When it’s just me and Chris, that’s it. That’s where it comes from.
“No matter how bad or how volatile things have been in the past, when we sit in a room to write a record, all that (stuff) goes away. We’re both focused on it. ‘This is how we want it to sound,’ and that’s what it is.”…