WHEN CHRIS AND Rich Robinson announced in 2019 that they were reuniting as the Black Crowes, it seemed that the endeavor might function strictly as a look back at the past. In short order, the brothers — with Chris on vocals and Rich on guitar, and flanked by an entirely new group of musicians — announced a long tour to celebrate Shake Your Money Maker, the 1990 debut that catapulted the Georgia group to stardom roughly 30 years earlier on the strength of hits like “Jealous Again,” “Twice As Hard,” “She Talks to Angels” and their cover of Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle.”
“We thought the idea of playing the record that launched everything for us would be a cool thing to do, because we had never done anything like that,” Rich Robinson tells Guitar Player. “We decided to really home in on that album and those songs, and really celebrate Shake Your Money Maker.”
Except for a COVID-necessitated delay, that’s exactly what the Black Crowes did over the next few years, not only onstage but also with a 2021 30th anniversary multiformat reissue of the record. This was eventually joined by a live documentary, as well as an expanded reissue of the band’s 1992 sophomore effort, . Even when the Crowes released newly recorded music, it was in the form of a covers EP titled , populated by versions of the Rolling Stones’ “Rocks Off,” David Bowie’s “Moonage
