When the Black Crowes’ quarreling siblings Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson patched up their differences to reunite the band in 2019, two members of another fractured brother band — Oasis — were paying attention. At least according to Crowes singer Chris Robinson.
During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast in support of their new album, A Pound of Feathers, which the Black Crowes recorded in Nashville, Chris says his repaired relationship with guitarist Rich lit the way for Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher to do the same in 2025.
“Of course we did. There’s no doubt in my mind that we didn’t,” he says. “I don’t care what Noel or Liam say. They are that heavily influenced by how Rich and I’s relationship is going.” Rich, seated next to him, just laughed.
But Chris, always animated, carried on. “I would say we’re the barometer to their family dynamic. That’s just a fact,” he says. “And I’d like to see either of them deny it.”
The two rock bands, one formed in Atlanta in the Eighties, the other in Manchester, England, at the dawn of the Nineties, do have a history together. In 2001, the Black Crowes and Oasis teamed up for a co-headlining trek across the United States and Canada. Dubbed “The Tour of Brotherly Love,” it also featured Spacehog, another sibling band led by Royston and Antony Langdon, who scored a hit in 1995 with “In the Meantime.”
While on paper, the pairing of the Black Crowes and Oasis may spell disaster, Rich Robinson has fond memories of the run. “It was amazing,” he says. “That was a great tour.”
In 2019, the Robinsons mended fences to reform their band six years after their last performance. “I told [our friend], ‘Man, it would just be cool to be able to play songs with my brother,’” Rich told Rolling Stone then. “And he said, ‘Y’know, Chris said the same thing to me.’”
After riding out the pandemic, the Crowes hit the road in 2021 and have been at it since. They released the Grammy-nominated Happiness Bastards in 2024, a record made with Nashville producer Jay Joyce, and returned to Music City to cut A Pound of Feathers, also with Joyce.
Oasis, meanwhile, concluded their stadium reunion tour last November. There are reports that the band is working on new music and eyeing a return to the road in 2027.
Download and subscribe to Rolling Stone’s weekly country-music podcast, Nashville Now, hosted by senior music editor Joseph Hudak, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts). New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Lainey Wilson, Hardy, Charley Crockett, Kings of Leon, Carly Pearce, Breland, Bryan Andrews, Devon Gilfillian, Gavin Adcock, Amanda Shires, Shooter Jennings, Margo Price, Ink, Rival Sons’ Jay Buchanan, Halestorm, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, Ashley Monroe, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, Clever, and authors Marissa R. Moss, Josh Crutchmer, and Jonathan Bernstein.
