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On the new album “Delta Kream,” The Black Keys are, as the song says, “Goin Down South.” Guitar and vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney pay homage to the Mississippi blues with covers of greats, including R.L. Burnside, David "Junior" Kimbrough and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Burnside’s “Goin Down South” is one of Auerbach’s favorite songs. As a teenager, he saw Burnside play with Kenny Brown, a blues slide guitarist, in Cleveland, Ohio, and the performance has stuck...

Nashville Tennessean In their earliest, humblest days – back when they were working out of a basement in Akron, Ohio, with two microphones and an eight-track tape recorder – The Black Keys were already writing phenomenal original songs. Their 2002 debut, “The Big Come Up,” had a bunch of them: “Your Man,” “Heavy Soul” and “Countdown” are all classics cherished by the rock duo’s longtime fans. But when frontman Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney were sequencing “Come...

This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. When he was a teenager, finding hill country blues changed The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carneys life - it was a foundation of the band. Things have now come full circle - theyve just released a covers album of their favourite songs. Their 10th studio album, Delta Kream, features eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others. Delta Kream was recorded at Auerba...

The Black Keys: ‘Our relationship is better now than it has been in years’ Laura Barton © Provided by The Independent Recently, Patrick Carney, best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, found himself looking at YouTube comments posted beneath the videos for the band’s latest releases – tracks from Delta Kream, their new album of hill country blues covers. They are about as fine a tribute to the genre as one could imagine: visceral, dog-on-heat interpretations of s...

Open share drawer As Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney breezily enter their second decade together, they pay tribute to and put their own spin on the Mississippi blues, turning it into something that sounds supple and comforting. At first glance, Delta Kream—the 10th studio album from the blues-rock duo the Black Keys—appears to embody a hoary rock’n’roll cliché. It’s a collection of covers Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney learned to play when they were younger, an att...

Rating: Verdict: Hypnotic blues  One of the few positives of a lockdown now happily coming to an end has been its impact on pops most restless souls.  With tour plans in tatters, artists from Taylor Swift to Van Morrison have simply stayed in and made new music. Continuing his late-career purple patch, Paul Weller is now joining the club. Its only ten months since he last topped the charts with his 15th solo album, On Sunset, but hes used his enforced isolation to good effect, capturing idea...

Last modified on Fri 14 May 2021 04.05 EDT Over a 20-year trajectory from playing in bars with no audience to filling arenas, the Black Keys have never lost the blues. The Ohio duo of singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney’s 10th album illustrates the point with a set of songs by the north Mississippi artists that continue to inspire them, such as Lafayette County’s late RL Burnside and Hudsonville’s also deceased Junior Kimbrough, a labelmate when the early Bla...

Black Keys Get Back to Their Blues Roots on 'Delta Kream'

The Black Keys' ode southern blues has been released on New Music Friday - check it out below.

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