On November 11th, The Black Crowes performed their first show in six years at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, performing Shake Your Money Maker in its entirety. Last night, November 14th, the veteran southern rockers brought the set across the country to Los Angeles' iconic Troubadour for another intimate show.
They performed the album in sequencing order, kicking it off with "Twice as Hard" and rolling through the album's gems like "Sister Luck," "Seeing Things," "Thick N' Thin" "Struttin' Blues" and their rendition of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle."
The main set ended on album closer "Stare it Cold," but the boys came back out to encore The Rolling Stones anthem "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)." They did not do the album's hidden tracks "Live Too Fast Blues"/"Mercy, Sweet Moan." See the full setlist below!
These shows were a precursor to their 2020 "Shake Your Money Maker" reunion tour!
“I think this is pure. We went off into a lot of things. There’s no jamming,” Chris Robinson tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no extraneous stuff. This is the purest Black Crowes that people first [heard] … I hope we reconnect with some people who lost their way with us because of all of our other shit we were doing.”
The band includes the two brothers, Chris and Rich, along with new members: "Isiah Mitchell of psych-rock band Earthless, veteran session bassist Tim LeFebvre who appeared on David Bowie’s Blackstar and keyboardist Joel Robinow and drummer Raj Ojha of prog/psych-pop group Once and Future Band."
“It’s always been our band and it’s funny through all the trajectory of the good and the bad — the joy and the frustrations,” Chris says. “[Rich and I] were laughing, saying the one thing [we] can always agree on is, Shake Your Money Maker’s a good record.”
Check out their summer 2020 dates below!
Black Crowes 2020 Shake Your Money Maker Tour Dates
June 17 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater
June 19 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
June 20 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Presented by Huntsman
June 23 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
June 24 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
June 26 – Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
June 27 – Atlanta, GA @ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
June 30 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Coral Sky Amphitheatre at the S. Florida Fairgrounds
July 1 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds
July 3 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
July 4 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
July 7 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheatre
July 8 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheatre
July 10 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veteran United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
July 11 – Washington, DC @ Jiffy Lube Live
July 14 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
July 15 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
July 17 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 18 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
July 21 – Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
July 22 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
July 24 – Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre
July 25 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 28 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
July 29 – Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 31 – Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
August 1 – Pittsburgh, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion
August 13 – Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
August 15 – Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
August 16 – Indianapolis, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
August 18 – Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center
August 20 – Cincinnati, PH @ Riverbend Music Center
August 22 – Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater
August 23 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
August 26 – Bonner Springs, KS @ Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
August 28 – Omaha, NE @ CHI Health Center Omaha
August 30 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 1 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
September 4 – Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
September 5 – Ridgefield, WA @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
September 8 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion
September 9 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
September 11 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
September 12 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
September 18 – San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Forum
