The Black Crowes

"Welcome to the show, welcome to the show. They call it rock 'n' roll music." These are Chris Robinson's first words to the audience on this live album from the Lions tour in 2002. He's not kidding because "the only rock band left on earth" then proceeds to throw down the gauntlet, kick out the jams and flatten the competition. Thank God for the Black Crowes.

Totally seventies to their last foreseeable breath, the Black Crowes -- now split into
separate Robinson-brother solo projects -- sign off with a double live album, recorded last
year, that boasts the dirty fidelity and bong-happy abandon of Humble Pie's Performance --
Rockin' the Fillmore (1971), the Faces' Coast to Coast: Overtures and Beginnings (1974) and
that Chicago-blues-night side of the Rolling Stones' Love You Live (1977). Closer i... More >