event The Black Crowes
Also Playing: Truth & Salvage Co.
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Fri Nov 6
8 pm,
http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/32822 The Black Crowes and Truth & Salvage Co. at Riviera Theatre
It’s a wake-up call to your own mortality that classic-rock revivalists The Black Crowes are now old enough to be simply “classic rock.” As befitting both that road-wizened maturity and its unwavering loyalty to the ’70s, the group’s new Before The Frost…—and digital-only companion …Until The Freeze—is one of those legendary “double live” albums, recorded last year in front of a small gathering of diehards in Levon Helm’s famed Woodstock barn. The setting obviously inspired the band, as its loose, country-and-blues-fed rock hasn’t sounded this confident in years (certainly not on last year’s Warpaint), making nods to everyone from disco-era Rolling Stones (“I Ain’t Hiding”) to The Allman Brothers—two bands it’s now joined in the rock pantheon.
Riviera Theatre 4746 N Racine Ave, Chicago, IL
It’s a wake-up call to your own mortality that classic-rock revivalists The Black Crowes are now old enough to be simply “classic rock.” As befitting both that road-wizened maturity and its unwavering loyalty to the ’70s, the group’s new Before The Frost…—and digital-only companion …Until The Freeze—is one of those legendary “double live” albums, recorded last year in front of a small gathering of diehards in Levon Helm’s famed Woodstock barn. The setting obviously inspired the band, as its loose, country-and-blues-fed rock hasn’t sounded this confident in years (certainly not on last year’s Warpaint), making nods to everyone from disco-era Rolling Stones (“I Ain’t Hiding”) to The Allman Brothers—two bands it’s now joined in the rock pantheon.
Updated 11/06/2009
