When The Black Crowes called it a day there should have been weeping in the streets. The news that the Robinson brothers at the heart of this monumentally great rock’n’roll band, who never made a bad record and crafted at least one masterpiece with 1992’s The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion, had decided to bury the hatchet in the ground rather than in each other was cause for hats in the air and doubles all around.
The dynamite reunion shows promised much, and single Wanting And Waiting delivered: the big Rich Robinson riff, the Hammond swell, the hand claps, the backing singers’ ‘ooh’, and Chris Robinson with his ‘blood on fire’ almost audibly twirling the mic and throwing shapes. It shares DNA with 1991’s Jealous Again, but so what? It’s their thing, and it’s what we want anyway.
