After nearly a quarter of a century The Black Crowes are no more, again, and unfortunately it seems the latest end has come in a less than satisfactory way.
“I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation,” Rich Robinson said in a statement yesterday (January 15th).
“It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.”
“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.”
The business wranglings belie the story of a band who gleefully extolled riff heavy blues rock across nine albums of various forms. The line-up has been ever changing but consistently led by brothers Chris and Rich Robinson since forming in the late eighties.