Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel

Personnel: Chris Robinson (vocals, guitar, harp); Neal Casal (vocals, guitar); Adam MacDougall (vocals, keyboards); Meg Baird (vocals); Barry Sless (pedal steel guitar); Tony Leone (mandolin, drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: J.P. Hesser.Recording information: The Brotherhood Arts Labs, California.Illustrator: Alan Forbes.Photographer: Neal Casal.Perhaps it's unfair -- or at least slightly reductive -- to compare the Chris Robinson Brotherhood to the work of Rich Robinson, the estranged brother of the band's leader, but listening to their 2016 albums side by side illustrates the divide between the co-leaders of the Black Crowes. Flux, the fourth album by Rich, doubles down on the earthy Southern sounds that always rooted the Crowes, but Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel, the fourth LP by the CRB, is so light it floats away on its own haze. Apart from the knowing "Leave My Guitar Alone," the rhythms aren't blues-boogie, they're nimble funk-rock colored by a psychedelic sensibility tha