The Black Crowes announced their return by the end of 2019 but had to postpone their tour dates for 2021 due to the pandemic. Now, the band announced their North American dates for this year. The band announced that bassist Sven Pipien, who played with the band live from 1997 up until the band's hiatus in 2015, will rejoin the group for the shows. The opening act will be Dirty Honey. The Black Crowes announces 2021 North American tour dates: July 20 - Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheatre 21 - Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheatre 24 - Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion 25 -Hartford, CT @ The XFINITY Theatre 28 - Pittsburgh, PA @ S&T Bank Music Park 29 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre 31 - St Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre August 01 - Indianapolis, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center 03 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center 04 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Amphitheatre 07 - Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 08 - Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheatre 10 - Rogers, AR @ Walmart Amphitheatre 11 - Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion 14 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavilion 15 - Austin, TX @ Germania Amphitheatre 18 - San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre 19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum 21 - Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion 22 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 25 - Portland, OR @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre 26 - Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheatre 29 - Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater 30 - Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater September 04 - Atlanta, GA @ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood 05 - Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre 07 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Coral Sky Amphitheatre 08 - Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 10 - Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion 11 - Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 14 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 15 - Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center 17 - Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Theater 18 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center 22 - Washington, DC @ Jiffy Lube Live 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion 25 - Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods https://youtu.be/Xy7n60hXqQk New songs To promote the reissue of the 30th anniversary edition of their classic album “Shake Your Money Maker”, singer Chris Robinson talked in an interview with AXS TV’s “At Home And Social” that the band will eventually make a new album. “Rich and I, our focus, like anyone else, is to get through this pandemic and get back to where we can do the thing we love [to do],” Chris told AXS TV’s “At Home And Social” “I miss going to see music as much as I miss playing.” “And I know all of our friends for many, many decades and in many different places around the world who are musicians, [and] none of us are working. But our main focus is to tour. We’ve been writing a bunch of new songs, and we’ll get around to making a record, but we’re in no hurry to do that. We wanna get on the road, we wanna do this tour. We put together an amazing band, and we wanna go out and do it.”