Black Crowes <\/a>brothers Chris and Rich Robinson have honed the way they approach what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always looking at the angle of, \u2018Look, we\u2019ve made a lot of records. We\u2019ve been doing this a long time. What can we do with this one?’\u201d Chris explains via Zoom from his home near Los Angeles. And from his home in upstate New York, Rich adds, \u201cIt comes down to loving what you\u2019re doing, and there\u2019s joy in creation that we always get involved with and tap into\u2026It forces you to be instinctual instead of thinking about it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt takes it directly from the heart instead of the brain, y\u2019know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat philosophy was amply applied during the making of A Pound of Feathers<\/em>, the Black Crowes\u2019 10th studio album, out Friday, and the follow-up to 2024\u2019s Grammy Award-nominated Happiness Bastards<\/em>. That was the Crowes\u2019 first new release in 14 years, and the first since the Robinsons reactivated the band in 2019 after a mostly acrimonious five-year hiatus.<\/p>\n\n\tThe 11-song set was recorded during less than two weeks in Nashville with Happiness Bastards<\/em> producer Jay Joyce, and with only Cully Symington, the band\u2019s drummer since 2023, joining the Robinsons in the studio. And while its predecessor was created in a more conventional process, with songs prepared before the full band entered the studio, A Pound of Feathers <\/em>was decidedly more extemporaneous.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI think on Happiness Bastards<\/em> we definitely colored in the lines, and this one it\u2019s more like\u2026whatever,\u201d explains Chris, who also played drums during the writing process. \u201cI told Rich, and he agreed\u2026I was like, \u2018Let\u2019s much around with some stuff, but I\u2019m not gonna write any lyrics or any real melodies. We\u2019re gonna have the roughest of the rough sort of sketches.\u2019 And we told Jay this as well; \u2018We\u2019re coming in with a lot of loose ends.\u2019 It was really rough and raw, but I think we can keep some of that, the idea of it, keep it loose and funky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tRich, who played bass as well as his usual guitars, says that this time \u201cwe knew we wanted to use the studio as a tool. When Chris and I get on a thing we go pretty fast. Ideas come. It\u2019s like, \u2018OK, I have this. I think this is the verse, this is the chorus\u2019 and Chris will say, \u2018No, this is the verse\u2019 and we\u2019ll go through it and I\u2019m normally right. (laughs) We would take stock at the end of each day and it\u2019d be like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s kind of done. We really like it. And by the end of the first week we had nine songs finished, done, to the point where all of us, even Jay, were like, \u2018Don\u2019t f\u2013k around with these songs. We really like where it is.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSo we just said, \u2018F\u2014 it, let\u2019s just keep going,\u2019 and four days later we\u2019re finished with the whole record.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tA Pound of Feathers<\/em> is another quintessential kind of Black Crowes record, weaving classic sources into the Robinsons\u2019 particular stew of gritty, compact attacks, beefy guitar riffs, cocksure attitude, stomping rhythms and tribal energy. Chris declares in the opening line of \u201cProfane Prophecy\u201d that \u201cmy pedigree in debaucher is my claim to fame\u201d while Rich digs into chords straight out of the defining Rolling Stones songbook. The octane stays high on tracks such as \u201cCruel Streak,\u201d \u201cDo the Parasite!,\u201d \u201cHigh and Lonesome\u201d and \u201cYou Call This a Good Time,\u201d while the Crowes dig into Americana restraint with \u201cPharmacy Chronicles\u201d and \u201cQueen of the B-Sides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAlongside those, the cascading \u201cBlood Red Regrets,\u201d the tempo-shifting \u201cEros Blues\u201d and the darkly psychedelic \u201cDoomsday Doggerel\u201d burst out of the speakers or earbuds with epic sonic dynamics.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Black Crowes, to a fault, have always done thing by how they feel,\u201d Chris maintains. \u201cI\u2019m a cerebral person, but the music is really caveman stuff. We\u2019ve done a lot of spontaneous writing, and I work that way, but something like \u2018Doomsday Doggerel,\u2019 that\u2019s a great example of one minute there wasn\u2019t a song, and 30 minutes later there\u2019s one of my favorite songs that we\u2019ve ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOn \u201cIt\u2019s Like That,\u201d meanwhile, Chris was working on lyrics in his rented house, \u201cand there\u2019s a tree frog out in front of the bedroom, and it\u2019s making this noise, so I taped it on my phone and we get back the next day and I go, \u2018Put up the solo section\u2026and throw my frog in there,\u2019 and it goes through the little guitar solo break. That\u2019s my Nashville rasta frog.\u201d Rich also credits his brother with the idea for adding violin to \u201cQueen of the B-Sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s moments like that all over the record that I really appreciate,\u201d Rich says. \u201cI think a lot of that kinda jumps into this immediacy the record has, where you\u2019re right there. You\u2019re in it, and that\u2019s it. That\u2019s what I really love about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Black Crowes \u2014 recently nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> for a second consecutive year \u2014 begin touring during April with shows in Australia and Tokyo before kicking off a North American run with Whiskey Myers and Southall on May 17 in Austin, Texas, bisected with a late June run to Europe. The Robinsons will be joined by Symington, keyboardist Erik Deutsch and guitarist Nico Bereciartua from the Happiness Bastards run, while Mark \u201cMuddy\u201d Dutton from the band Burning Tree replaces longtime bassist Sven Pipien for this outing.<\/p>\n\n\tRich anticipates that \u201cwe\u2019ll go through all of [the A Pound of Feathers <\/em>songs], but not all in one night,\u201d while he and Chris say they\u2019ll blend some seldom-played rarities amidst the other favorites, and perhaps some covers. \u201cWe have a deepish well to draw from,\u201d Rich notes. \u201cThe cool thing is how these new songs fit with the old songs; when we went out for Happiness Bastards<\/em> I was like, \u2018Oh, how\u2019s this gonna work?,\u2019 but when you get in a room and you set \u2019em right next to each other they make total sense. So it\u2019s gonna be really cool.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always surprised. You can feel [fans\u2019] enthusiasm, sort of along the same trip as what Chris and I do, from our living room to yours, whatever that vibration is people are resonating with, too. To go out after all that time broken up and to have people come out and support us again, that\u2019s a gift. It\u2019s just really cool to look out and see someone that I remember seeing when I was a kid, and they\u2019re bringing their kids to the shows. There really is a sense of togetherness that we\u2019ve all been on this trip together\u2026and are still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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