December 13, 2012

Neal Casal's Tumblr page
Apart from some really great guitar playing, Neal is also an impressive Photog. There's some really great pictures (maybe around 300 or so) on his page. Check out his link above and show him some brotherly/sisterly love: Neal on Facebook

December 13, 2012

Chris shares a moment with one of Jerry's geetars, Wolf

Barefoot

December 13, 2012
The band, last night, pulled one of Chris' songs from the 2004-shelf, dusted it off and played it. I wonder how long the band needed to rehearse a song that Chris hasn't played live for eight years. Looking forward to hearing how the rest of the band's take is on the sound.

Enjoy this old one. Has a few Paul Stacey sightings on it:

Barefoot by the Cherry Tree

Staring out of a window
Into a gray sky scene
Alone stands a widow
With her skin porcelain
To a black limosine
She exits....

may the circle be unbroken...

December 12, 2012

Rumors are starting that The Black Crowes are reuniting this Spring after a two-year break. Any thougths? New guitarist?

Chris Robinson Interview

December 10, 2012
by Tom Lanham (special for the San Francisco Examiner)

The band name itself is an in-joke because the Chris Robinson Brotherhood features keyboardist Adam MacDougall, bassist Mark Dutton, drummer George Sluppick, guitarist Neal Casal and, of course, Chris Robinson on guitar and vocals — but not his brother and longtime Black Crowes bandmate, Rich Robinson. But in two albums the group has forged its own extended-jam path, exemplified by the surreal Alan Forbes cover illustration on the new record, “The Magic Door.” “I told him I wanted him to do Albrecht Durer’s celestial map of the northern sky, but with our psychedelic icons and mythology intermingled, like when our space gnome Captain Nebula opens the door to the other side,” Robinson says of his concept.

Who needs drugs when you have Alan Forbes designing your logo and cover art?
Hey, times are tough in America!

santa cruz review

December 8, 2012

review by Linda Tulett

Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Could Be What Magic Sounds Like

Before Chris Robinson Botherhood there was The Black Crowes; before that there was New Earth Mud; before that, there was The Black Crowes; and before that, Mr. Crowe’s Garden…….
Each time The Black Crowes take a break, Chris Robinson gets busy.

soft grass lullaby...

December 7, 2012

This guy's playing absolutely blows my skull. I'm pretty sure that if I walked into a Willy-Wonka factory today and Adam was providing the background music for it, I'd be somewhere near nirvana.

Cleveland Review

by Dave Swanson

Jerry Garcia might be long gone, but his children are always looking for a new dwelling. Enter Chris Robinson, once (and future?) lead singer for the Black Crowes, one of the purest rock and roll bands to emerge in the last 20-odd years. Their take on ‘Sticky Fingers’-era Stones and Gram Parsons’ ghost was always a thing of beauty.

With the Crowes on another indefinite hiatus (“Best not to wake the bear while it’s hibernating,’” Robinson recently told Uncut), Chris is sailing head-on into his own solo trip.