The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes in 2008
Background information
Also known as	Mr. Crowe's Garden
Origin	Marietta, Georgia, United States
Genres	Southern rock, blues rock, hard rock, jam band
Years active	1989–2002 2005–2015
Labels	Def American Columbia V2 Silver Arrow
Associated acts	Jimmy Page Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Magpie Salute Trigger Hippy
Website	blackcrowes.com
Past members	Chris Robinson Rich Robinson Steve Gorman Johnny Colt Jeff Cease Eddie Harsch Marc Ford Sven Pipien Audley Freed Greg Rzab Andy Hess Bill Dobrow Paul Stacey Rob Clores Adam MacDougall Luther Dickinson Jackie Greene

The Black Crowes were an American rock band formed in 1989. Their discography includes eight studio albums, four live albums and several charting singles. The band was signed to Def American Recordings in 1989 by producer George Drakoulias and released their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, the following year. The follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 1992.

After a hiatus between 2002 and 2005, the band released Warpaint, which hit number 5 on the Billboard chart. After the release of a greatest hits/acoustic double album Croweology in August 2010, the band started a 20th anniversary tour that was followed by an ongoing second hiatus. The band announced that they would return in early 2013 but that December they returned to hiatus status with no specific return date. They announced their break-up in 2015.

The band has sold over 30 million albums, and is listed at number 92 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". They were also labeled by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" and the readers of Rolling Stone voted them 'Best New American Band' in 1990.

The first incarnation of the band, "Mr. Crowe's Garden," named after Leonard Leslie Brookes children's book Johnny Crow's Garden, began in 1984 in Marietta, Georgia. Influenced by contemporary local acts like R.E.M., 1960's psychedelic pop and classic southern rock, they gradually evolved into a revivalist band dedicated to 1970s-era blues rock. Although the band has had a high turnover rate throughout their history, the driving force behind the band has always been brothers Chris and Rich Robinson who initially formed the band while going to Walton High School.