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"Rock'n'roll has given me bipolar weirdos, addicted, beautiful souls, the madness, and the sadness. It’s just too much": Chris and Rich Robinson tell the story of the Black Crowes

The siblings talk about growing up, breaking out, breaking up, making up, dizzying highs, heartbreaking lows, lost friends, recriminations, reunions… music and much more

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“Those virtuoso guys can do anything. But sometimes it’s more fun to hit one note and see if it can mean as much. Sometimes it can mean even more”: Rich Robinson on earning AC/DC’s approval, losing guitars to a hurricane, and The Black Crowes’ return

The Robinson brothers are back in session as The Black Crowes complete their triumphant comeback. Here, Robinson gives us the guitar story behind the rock ’n’ roll album of the year

Guitar World

“I felt Jimmy's excitement for music... He played with absolute conviction and passion and power at all times”: Rich Robinson reflects on the time Jimmy Page performed with The Black Crowes

The band has unreleased recordings of Page playing on Black Crowes songs in 1999 – and plan to release them next year

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“I have my sound; 98% of the tone comes from me. I can plug into most amps and make it sound like me”: Rich Robinson on the guitars, tunes and focus behind the Black Crowes’ comeback

The Black Crowes are back on their perch with an album that delivers a masterclass in rock 'n' roll songwriting. Here guitarist Rich Robinson explains how it all came together

MusicRadar

"More soulful than a gospel convention, warmer than a mother's love and groovier than the Grand Canyon": The Black Crows return in righteous form on Happiness Bastards

The Black Crowes are still shaking on reunion album Happiness Bastards

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“It was so destroyed you could take the paint off with your hands”: How Rich Robinson brought his ’68 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop back from the brink after Hurricane Sandy

The Black Crowes guitarist says his restored LP is a rare example of an instrument that (eventually) came back stronger following the 2012 disaster

Guitar World

“I strived to get an electric guitar to respond like a fingerpicked, open-tuned acoustic for decades. I went about it wrong”: Ex-Black Crowes guitarist Luther Dickinson on why he never dug his first signature Gibson – and how its followup went MIA

The North Mississippi Allstars man has led a storied career. He discusses his surprising jams with Rich Robinson and co, recording with The Replacements at the age of 13, and how his dad (via Bo Diddley) set him on a lifelong open-tuned path

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“What came off his guitar, you still don’t even know to this day what the hell he was doing”: these are the 10 greatest guitarists ever, according to The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson

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“Hope everybody is ready to rock & roll with us!” The Black Crowes announce 35 shows in North America, the UK and Europe

Chris and Rich Robinson announce North American, British and European shows in support of their first new album in 15 years

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"No matter what his issues may be personality-wise, he's a brilliant singer": The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson chooses the soundtrack of his life

The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the album that brings him joy every time he listens to it

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“Our love letter to rock ’n’ roll”: Southern rock icons The Black Crowes return with their first album in 15 years

The album arrives March 15 and the band has dropped hip-shaking lead single Wanting and Waiting to mark the occasion

Guitar World

“Happiness Bastards is our love letter to rock ’n’ roll”: The Black Crowes announce first album in 15 years with the groovy strut and walking riff of Wanting And Waiting

The tempestuous rock ’n’ roll stalwarts celebrate 40 years in the game with a brand new – and long-awaited – studio album, and you can buy and stream it from 15 March

MusicRadar

"Creating music is always where we find harmony together": The Black Crowes announce Happiness Bastards album, release first new song in 15 years

Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson return with a new single, Wanting And Waiting, ahead of their first album since 2010

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“You can have all the pedals you want, but the guitar/amp combination makes the sound. Pedals are just some extra paprika”: Rich Robinson reveals what’s on his pedalboard

Why a Black Crowe seeks the company of a Red Lama and an Angry Troll but finds the meaning of life (tone-wise) lies in the magic that happens between guitar and a vintage tube amp

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“Rich Robinson was doing a Facebook Q&A and I commented with a video of me playing one of his songs… long story short, it led to me playing with the Black Crowes”: How Argentina native Nico Bereciartua became the US rock institution's new guitar wingman

From chatting with Robinson on social media to opening for Aerosmith in arenas, Bereciartua's star has had a rapid ascent. He discusses his favorite guitars for slide, his six-string chemistry with Rich Robinson, and why playing with the Black Crowes is the greatest honor of his life

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30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid

Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom

Louder

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek - Album Of The Week Club review

Live At The Greek wasn't quite what it should have been due to contractual obligations, but it was the most animated Jimmy Page had sounded in years

Chicago Sun-Times

The Black Crowes make the most of muggy Chicago day with greatest hits — albeit abbreviated — set for NASCAR festival

Like the JC Brooks Band earlier in the day, The Black Crowes started their set late and also cut it abruptly, only offering 40 minutes of the hour they had slated for their set.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago House Music Festival honors ‘a cultural institution’ for the city

The free event, hosted for the first time this year in Humboldt Park, also partnered with the Taste of Chicago Saturday afternoon.

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The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The seasoned tonesmith reflects on spending "some of the best moments of my life" with Jimmy Page, the guitarist with a tone so unbelievable that "no-one on this Earth can touch him" and why Duane Allman is just as important as Jimi Hendrix

The Independent UK

‘You get the f*** out of here’: The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson pushes ‘stage invader’ with his guitar

‘Hey, you throw that motherf***er out,’ frontman Chris Robinson shouted from the stage

Tribune News Service

Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes talks '1972′ EP and his sibling reconciliation

For nearly a decade, siblings Chris and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes were estranged, brothers broken by acrimony and resentment.

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