The Black Crowes

Phoenix Rising
By Chris Carney

Musicians used to come to Las Vegas to live out the last of their days, waiting for their careers to fizzle and die. Things have certainly changed. Vegas is no longer the sputtering neon graveyard of the has been and never were. Sin City is now a welcome stop on any tour.

This new life is something very familiar to the Black Crowes. Once critical darlings and fan favorites, the Crowes’ fell of the map and were lost to the mists of the once great. The early 2000’s were less than kind to bandleaders Chris and Rich Robinson. Several label switches, a revolving door of hired and fired band mates and low album sales caused many to pronounce The Black Crowes dead and gone. For a while the Crowes proved it true.

But, like a musical Lazarus, the brothers Robinson have come back from the brink. A New Year’s Eve concert at Madison Square Garden, a live DVD release and an upcoming new album have proven that any obituary is premature at best.

The Black Crowes couldn’t find a better place to celebrate their second chance at life that The Pearl at the Palms. A venue the Pharaohs of old would gladly call home.

Published in Las Vegas Magazine 10-7-07