Delta Kream, the follow-up to the Black Keys’ 2019 album Let’s Rock, will be released May 14th on Nonesuch Records. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Fred McDowell over 11 songs. Recorded in Nashville at the studio of Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, the record finds Auerbach and Keys drummer Patrick Carney paying homage to bluesmen like R.L. But the accompanying cover art – of an electric chair, with bolts shooting out of it – has a surprising backstory.The Black Keys reconnect with the blues songs that informed their early years on the duo’s 10th studio album Delta Kream. “Dan and I have known (label co-owners) Ben Blackwell and Ben Swank for almost 20 years now, and I've actually gotten to know Jack the last six months, a little bit…This is a big month for rock and roll in Nashville with The Raconteurs record and our record.” Inspiration from death rowĬoming from a band like The Black Keys, an album title like “Let’s Rock” seems self-explanatory. Congrats on the new music, think it was really cool,” Carney says. “More evidence that Nashville rock n roll is alive and well. It hadn’t helped that The Black Keys relocated to Nashville in 2010, after White did the same in 2005.īut earlier this year, when the band revealed their new single, “Lo/Hi,” White’s label, Third Man Records, sang their praises on social media. They may not have had to patch things up with each other, but during their time away, The Black Keys did bury the hatchet with fellow Nashville rock star Jack White.įor a couple of years, the two acts had the most heated rivalry in rock music, with White accusing the group of “ripping off sounds of mine,” and having a publicized run-in with Carney at New York City bar. “We germinated each other's brains while we were on tour,” adds Auerbach. But we would listen to each other's music so much.” And on my extreme end would be some indie rock stuff, or something. “On the extreme end, there'd be some acoustic blues stuff, or some Alan Lomax recordings that Dan would bring. “In the van, touring, he'd have his CD book, and I'd have mine,” Carney says. After they experience a vision (of a mountain of cash), they decide to work things out.Īll kidding aside, Auerbach and Carney believe their differences have been crucial to their success. At the behest of their label, they’re sent to a spiritual retreat. The comedic clip opens with the pair sitting on a couch in couples’ therapy, refusing to speak to one another. They embraced the rumors of inter-band turmoil with the album’s first music video, for “Go.” So I think it's just natural, in this TMZ kind of world, for people to talk,” Auerbach says. “I think any time a band is making music regularly, and then stops cold turkey, people start to ask questions. It didn’t always seem that way to the outside world, though. There were text messages and occasional dinners, and the next Black Keys album seemed like a matter of “when,” not “if.” “Pat introduced me to the 4-track (recorder), and I fell in love with it, and the whole idea of making records just became an obsession, I think, for both of us.” 'People start to ask questions'Īnd when they weren’t in the studio, the pair kept in touch. “But you know, that's how Pat and I started,” Auerbach says. “Between the two of us, we probably made, like 25 albums in the last four years,” he estimates. THE BEAT OF MUSIC CITY: Keep up with Nashville's music news with a digital subscription He also created the theme song to the Netflix hit “Bojack Horseman” with his late uncle, saxophonist Ralph Carney. Carney, too, is a prolific producer, with a hand in projects by Jessy Wilson, Tennis and pop/rock star Michelle Branch, whom he married earlier this year.
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