Like most rock bands, The Black Crowes have had their ups and downs. They even called it quits at one point in 2013. Fortunately for their fans, they got back together in 2019 for their then-upcoming 30th-anniversary tour, but the band's composition wasn't the same as it was before. From what The Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson told USA Today, this was done on purpose, because some members of the band were toxic, trying purposefully to keep the co-founder brothers, Chris and Rich Robinson, from communicating with each other.
"In the Black Crowes, it became this incredibly toxic, dysfunctional scenario," Rich Robinson explained. "And it's easy just to blame Chris or blame me, or Chris and I. But there were a lot of people in that band working very actively to keep Chris and I from communicating and getting along. Because they couldn't get their way if Chris and I talked and got along."
The band is now sans drummer Steve Gorman, bassist Sven Pipien, and keyboard player Adam MacDougall, and instead features several members from the lesser-known band Howlin' Rain. The Robinson brothers were always the core of the band anyway, so we can expect them to sound pretty much the same.
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