Editing The Black Crowes (section)

===Middle era: 1996–2001===
''[[Three Snakes and One Charm]]'' was released in July 1996.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The band's support tour included a summer stint with the 1997 Furthur Festival, along with [[Ratdog]], [[Bruce Hornsby]] and others. During this period, the band recorded an album called ''Band'', which was scrapped.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3712395,00.html |title=The Lost Crowes |access-date=April 22, 2008 |publisher=ArtistDirect }}</ref> Guitarist Marc Ford was fired and bassist Johnny Colt subsequently left the group, dissolving the Crowes' line-up for the previous three albums.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The unreleased tracks from ''Tall'' and ''Band'' surfaced among tape trading circles and were later officially released on ''[[The Lost Crowes]]'' (2006).

The band regrouped, adding Sven Pipien on bass prior to its next recording sessions.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> ''[[By Your Side (The Black Crowes album)|By Your Side]]'' was released in January 1999; the album stripped away the more adventurous sounds of ''Amorica'' and ''Three Snakes and One Charm'' in favor of leaner, soul-influenced songs. Guitarist [[Audley Freed]], formerly of [[Cry of Love (band)|Cry of Love]], joined prior to the recording of ''By Your Side'' but was not included in the recording sessions.

In October 1999, the band was joined by [[Led Zeppelin]] guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] for two pairs of shows in New York and Los Angeles, and also at the Centrum in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], yielding a live release, ''[[Live at the Greek (Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes album)|Live at the Greek]]'' on TVT Records. Due to contractual issues with Columbia, ''Live at the Greek'' did not feature any of the band's songs performed with Page. The collaboration led to a more extensive tour with Page and [[The Who]] in summer 2000, during which Pipien was replaced by [[Greg Rzab]]. Following the tour, singer Chris Robinson married actress [[Kate Hudson]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12047158 |title=Black Crowes' Chris Robinson Marries Kate Hudson |access-date=April 22, 2008 |publisher=Yahoo! Music }}</ref> before heading back to the studio to record the band's sixth studio album.

In May 2001, the band released ''[[Lions (album)|Lions]]'' on [[Virgin Records|Virgin]] mogul [[Richard Branson]]'s V2 record label; the album peaked at number 20 on the charts.<ref>{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=The black crowes|bio=true}} |access-date=April 22, 2008 |title=Billboard Artist Chart History |magazine=Billboard }}</ref> The band launched its support of the album with the month-long [[Tour of Brotherly Love]] with [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] and [[Spacehog]] in May and June 2001. Throughout the rest of 2001, the band embarked on the "Listen Massive" headlining tour in support of ''Lions'', which spanned Europe and Japan before concluding with 36 U.S. shows. The band effectively dissolved in January 2002 with the departure of drummer Steve Gorman and an announcement that the band was "taking a hiatus."<ref>{{cite web |title=THE BLACK CROWES' CHRIS ROBINSON On His Brother RICH: 'We Never Really Had Much Of A Relationship'|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/the-black-crowes-chris-robinson-on-his-brother-rich-we-never-really-had-much-of-a-relationship/|work= [[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=February 21, 2015}}</ref>