★★★★★
Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson is getting some demons off his chest and it's all positive. And I'm sure if any one of us had the opportunity to hunker down with Almost Famous starlet Kate Hudson, we'd be penning tunes like Katie Dear and Safe in the Arms of Love. Robinson is singing well, and although the music is rock and soul, you can hear its acoustic guitar origins...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Ever wondered what the Black Crowes would sound like without a thousand-gazillion guitar solos between each verse? Of course you haven't. Fret-board mayhem is pretty much the Crowes' retro raison d'être. But New Earth Mud, the first solo album from head Crowe Chris Robinson, places his vocals front and center, while the guitars on this mostly acoustic album are relegated to a backstage reception area...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Chris Robinson's second solo album provides further evidence that, whatever else may have caused the breakup of the Black Crowes, it wasn't his desire to explore the outer fringes of Belgian electronica. From the opening blues shuffle "40 Days" to the sweeping acoustic anthem "Like a Tumbleweed in Eden," every track makes clear that the singer has no intention of pitching his tent outside the classic-rock camp he so dearly loves...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Within the retro-rockin' confines of The Black Crowes, Chris Robinson's bluesy Rod Stewart-isms made perfect sense. On his own, however, he sounds like a man lost amid his own vast record collection. Rather than break free from group restraints and explore virgin musical territory, the solo Robinson merely waters down the Crowes formula to an irredeemably backward-looking soft country rock...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
On his first solo album, the Black Crowes frontman keeps things light, wrapping his cigarettes-and-whiskey voice around pretty ballads such as "Silver Car" and "Fables." But with too many half-baked songs, he ultimately comes off like a generic amalgam of a bunch of Seventies singer-songwriters.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
This souvenir from Chris and Rich Robinson's 2006 duo tour certifies once and for all that the
Georgia-born brothers are the Black Crowes - everything else is rhythm
section. Except for the occasional soul-sister harmony vocals, the
Robinsons do all of the singing and picking here...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Chris Robinson's second post-Black Crowes album gets off to a blazing start with "40 Days," an urgent rocker that ranks with the best work of his former band. Then Robinson does something puzzling: He slows the tempo, and he keeps it dialed back for nine -- nine -- consecutive songs, leading to a sixty-five-minute album that seems endless...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Track Listing: 40 Days;Girl on the Mountain;Mother of Stone;Train Robbers 6:40;Like a Tumbleweed in Eden;When the Cold Wind Blows at the Dark Edge of Night;.....
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05