The debut album by The Black Keys was released on 14 May 2002.
22-year-old Patrick Carney and 23-year-old Dan Auerbach (the album was released on Auerbach’s birthday) recorded the album in Carney’s basement with microphones purchased on eBay.
The Big Come Up included 13 songs, with 8 originals, and sold about 140,000 copies when it was first released.
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From Dan: “That was one of R.L. Burnside’s hits! We strayed a little from the original on our version with the falsetto and percussion, but we liked how it sounded in that moment. It’s become one of my favorites on the album.”
New album Delta Kream out May 14th via Nonesuch Records.
bulletin: new Black Keys album, Delta Kream drops May 14. The 11-song set is said to honour the “music of Mississippi hill country blues, R.L. Burnside&Junior Kimbrough, among others who have influenced the Black Keys.” [x]
Tracklist: 1. Crawling Kingsnake (John Lee Hooker / Bernard Besman) 2. Louise (Fred McDowell) 3. Poor Boy A Long Way From Home (Robert Lee Burnside) 4. Stay All Night (David Kimbrough, Jr.) 5. Going Down South (Robert Lee Burnside) 6. Coal Black Mattie (Ranie Burnette) 7. Do the Romp (David Kimbrough, Jr.) 8. Sad Days, Lonely Nights (David Kimbrough, Jr.) 9. Walk with Me (David Kimbrough, Jr.) 10. Mellow Peaches (Joseph Lee Williams) 11. Come on and Go with Me (David Kimbrough, Jr.)
bulletin: via Stereogum: In May of 2021, the Black Keys released their country-blues covers album, Delta Kream. Now, hardly a year later, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach are coming back with their 11th studio album, Dropout Boogie, out in May (one day before the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut album, The Big Come Up). Along with the news is lead single and album opener “Wild Child,” which features Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright and Kings Of Leon’s Angelo Petraglia.
Today, The Black Keys announce their World Tour of America. The band will perform three intimate shows in Oxford, MS, Athens, GA, and St Petersburg, FL, surrounding their performance at Pilgrimage Fest in Tennessee in late September. Special guest: Robert Finley.
A portion of each set will consist of songs from the band’s new album, Delta Kream.
Patrick said of these dates, which the band hopes to make a tradition: “Dan and I have joked about doing a tour of American cities named after other cities in the world since we were touring together in a van. It feels like now is as good a time as any and we are excited to play in some places we haven’t played since the early days of the band and for fans that have not had a chance to see us in a while.”
“One of the really fun things about The Black Keys is that they themselves are huge music fans,” says NPR’s World Cafe host Raina Douris of her guests. “Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney get excited talking about the artists who’ve influenced them, and today you will hear that excitement as we dive into the new Black Keys album, Delta Kream.” You can hear their conversation here.
The Black Keys celebrated the release of their new album, Delta Kream, with two TV performances: on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, they played "Crawling Kingsnake,“ plus a web exclusive of R. L. Burnside’s "Going Down South,” from Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America; on Later… with Jools Holland, they performed “Going Down South” from Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, where they recorded the album. The performances feature Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton, long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
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“Some of the stickiest alt-boogie of their career,” says Rolling Stone. “Still raw, fast and loose,” adds the Associated Press. Classic Rock magazine exclaims: “Rock'n'roll in 2022 doesn’t get any better than this.”
The Black Keys were on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to perform the tracks “It Ain’t Over” and “Wild Child” and will take part in an album release party on iHeartRadio stations across the US tonight. The band will tour North America for the first time in three years starting in July.
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