16 March 2024

Atlanta’s family rockers THE BLACK CROWES are back in town after
15 years with their 9th longplayer, baptized HAPPINESS BASTARDS.

Rolling Stone: “Back in the 1990s, the Black Crowes blew up out of Atlanta, playing
soulful, swaggering classic rock in an era of alt-rock irony and grunge bellyaching. Even
more impressively, the two guys at the heart of the band — singer Chris Robinson and his guitar-playing brother Rich — managed to pull off their multi-platinum run while absolutely hating each other, like an American version of Oasis. But eventually the tension between
Chris and Rich forced the Crowes to close up shop.

The band released their last studio album in 2009, and the Robinson brothers needed
a decade to cool off before they reformed in 2019. In 2022, they released 1972, an EP
with covers of David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, the Temptations, T. Rex, Little Feat, and
Rod Stewart, forcefully arguing that Rock Eden could be specifically located in one year
of the Nixon administration. But what’s surprising about Happiness Bastards, their first
studio album together since reuniting, is how fun, energetic and, unmistakably not-crusty
it sounds, even as the references they lean into are all roughly a half-century old.”

TUTV: It feels like the Robinson bros were locked up in a cave somewhere in
the middle of nowhere after their 2009 album Before The Frost… Until The Freeze
and now, 15 years later, they found a way to escape and unleashed all their pent-up
anger and frustration on this red-hot-blooded record. Afire, ablaze, amazeballs stuff.

The Crowes let the good times stream again with badass steamrollers (Bedside Manners, Dirty Cold Sun, Flesh Wound), roasting blues stompers (Bleed It Dry, Wanting And Waiting, Follow The Moon), an AC/DC riff monster (Rats And Clowns) and a romantic country ballad
to close this blazing comeback record. Amazeballs fireworks .

For those about to rock
The Black Crowes salute you.

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