The Black Keys recorded the album at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville. Burnside’s “Poor Boy a Long Way from Home” and “Going Down South,” and five songs by Junior Kimbrough: “Stay All Night,” “Do the Romp,” “Sad Days, Lonely Nights,” “Walk With Me” and “Come On and Go With Me.” According to Nonesuch Records, The Black Keys’ 10th studio album celebrates the band’s roots and features the blues standards “that they have loved since they were teenagers, before they were a band.”Īlso included are covers of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “Louise,” Ranie Burnette’s “Coal Black Mattie,” Big Joe Williams’ “Mellow Peaches,” R.L. “Delta Kream” is a tribute to blues from the hill country of northern Mississippi. “Well, I’m a crawling kingsnake, baby,” Auerbach sings. The band has released a new video for the song. The first single to be released from the 11-track album is their cover of John Lee Hooker’s 1949 version of “Crawling Kingsnake.” The six-minute song features a slithering groove, a slinky beat and evocative vocals. The Akron duo’s new album, “Delta Kream,” due May 14, will feature cover songs from Mississippi blues musicians who influenced singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney when they were first starting out. For tickets and more info, visit to order? The Black Keys are serving up new music for hungry fans. 16, with dates in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver to follow. The Black Keys play the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Sept.
“They don’t define who we are they just define where our heads are at that week.” “It’s not that we don’t take them seriously, we just don’t over think them too much,” he adds. “On any given week we could have recorded the same bunch of songs and made them sound completely different. “You can look at these records as a snapshot of a moment in time for ourselves,” Auerbach says. Similarly, Auerbach’s laid back delivery conceals lyrics and fuzzed-out solos (as on seven-minute opener “Weight of Love”) often so raw one can practically taste the salt sting from his emotional wounds. Sonically kin to Brothers, the music on Turn Blue is by turns restless, languid and sinuous blues-driven psychedelia with a nod to Southern American gospel. Article content ‘The songs don’t define who we are they just define where our heads are at that week This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We really didn’t know what kind of record we were going to have until we were almost done.” “No thought, no talk, we just did it and everyday we tried to get a song done. “That’s when things started to settle a little bit so I think it affected the songs,” he says. Taking a month off, the duo regrouped at Auerbach’s Nashville studio along with producer Danger Mouse to write and record the rest of the album. “So ‘Fever,’ ‘It’s Up To You Now’ and ‘Gotta Get Away,’ those are all recorded in Michigan.” “I think that’s because we were still in that tour mode where songs are upbeat and faster,” Auerbach, who also produced Lana Del Rey’s recent album, explains. studio, Auerbach and Carney pumped out a trio of up-tempo numbers in line with that album’s musical inertia. Recording on Turn Blue began in January 2013, a week after the group finished touring behind 2011’s El Camino. “I didn’t go in saying I wanted to make a breakup record, but when I was writing the lyrics it was hard for me to focus on anything else because I was in the middle of it,” he sighs.
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