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The Black Crowes Earn Second Grammy Nomination

The Black Crowes receive Grammy nomination for 'Happiness Bastards' album, showcasing diverse rock styles. Follow AP News for more on the 2025 Grammy Awards.

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The Black Crowes enjoy Grammy Awards love again several decades after first nomination

The first time Chris and Rich Robinson were at the Grammy Awards, it was 1991

The Independent UK

The best albums, the biggest shows, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in Classic Rock's Best Of 2024 special edition

Also in this issue: AC/DC, David Gilmour, Foreigner, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Ghost Bruce Dickinson, Hawkwind, the Black Crowes and more - and three exclusive gifts

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“The Black Crowes got thrown off the ZZ Top tour. We picked up where they left off…Every night the tour manager warned us when the explosions were going to go off”: Michelle Malone gave up sax for guitar – and had John Mayer “begging” to join her shows

With her 20th album looming, the raw Americana player looks back on working with Albert King and Blackberry Smoke members, her ever-loving vintage gear and running her own label

Guitar World

The Black Crowes announce The Happiness Bastards Tour (The Reprise)

The new dates will kick off in September, filling gaps in the band's Aerosmith schedule

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“I’ve heard Jimmy Page liked my attention to detail. So do the work, kids – it pays off!” From Joe Perry to Sheryl Crow, Audley Freed has played with the greats – but nothing beats jamming with Jimmy as part of the Black Crowes

The Gov’t Mule, Joe Perry and Jakob Dylan collaborator has come a long way since starting out on a “magnetic” toy guitar

Guitar World

“You can put the best solo in the world in an average song and nobody is going to care. Put an average solo in a great song and you’ve still got a great song”: Rich Robinson on why he reunited the Black Crowes – and revitalized their guitar lineup

Toxic band member behavior drove the Robinson brothers apart – but it also brought them back together. Rich Robinson details the challenge of playing in 15 different tunings, how a flood made his Les Paul Goldtop sound better, and why Nico Bereciartua is just the guitarist the band needs

Guitar World

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“At some point, Slash was going to come play. Chris Robinson just said, ‘Let bud play. He could do this in a heartbeat’”: Why the Black Crowes’ Hard to Handle guitar solo was played by producer Brendan O’Brien instead of Slash

Legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Brendan O’Brien sets the record straight on whether he played all the instruments on The Black Crowes’ debut album

Guitar World

That time Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes were attacked by Conan O'Brien's Masturbating Bear

"You think a masturbating bear will faze me? The Led Zeppelin jet was flown by a masturbating bear!"

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"I must say, they were absolutely phenomenal": Jimmy Page's review of the Black Crowes' London show is in

Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page has posted about last week's London show from the Black Crowes

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Watch Steven Tyler join the Black Crowes onstage for a rip-snortin' romp through Mama Kin in London

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler surprises fans in West London as he makes his return to the stage after fracturing his larynx

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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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Aerosmith announce new Farewell Tour dates as Steven Tyler returns after vocal injury

Aerosmith's Peace Out Farewell Tour will resume in September a year after it was abandoned

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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

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"I was ill and when I picked the guitar up again, I wasn't playing Joe Satriani stuff – I was struggling to play Oasis!" Jack J. Hutchinson on how illness changed his playing style and his Black Crowes-inspired pedalboard

British blues guitarist and songwriter Jack J. Hutchinson on pedals, power trios, solos – and the illness that derailed his career

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

MusicRadar

“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

Guitar World

“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

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Louder

"We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, The Pineapple Thief, Wayne Kramer, Scott Stapp, Bush, Green Day, The Stranglers and more

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The Black Crowes launch imperious yet funky new single Cross Your Fingers

Cross Your Fingers comes from the Black Crowes' upcoming 10th studio album Happiness Bastards, which is scheduled to land next month

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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“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

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