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'Delta Kream,' band's tenth studio album, is due out May 14 Sarah Grant | April 15, 2021 - 10:07 am Share this article: CREDIT: Joshua Black Wilkins The Black Keys are back with a new video for the single, “Crawling Kingsnake.” The song is a cover of the 1920s Delta blues song, “Crawling King Snake.” The blues song was famously covered by John Lee Hooker in 1949, who reimagined Big Joe Williams’ country-blues version from 1941. “I first heard [John Lee] Hooker’s version in high school,” guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach said in a statement. “My uncle Tim w...

The Black Keys Honor The Blues with ‘Delta Kream’ The Black Keys pay homage to the Delta Blues with their new album ‘Delta Kream’. Dan Auerbach says, “We made this record to honor the Mississippi hill country blues tradition that influenced us starting out. These songs are still as important to us today as they were the first day Pat and I started playing together and picked up our instruments. It was a very inspiring session with Pat and me along with Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton in a circle, playing these songs. It felt so natural.” On ‘Delta Kream’ the band performs the mus...

The Black Keys Line Up May Release For Blues Covers Album 'Delta Kream' Friday, 16 April 2021 The Black Keys have shared details of their 10th studio album. 'Delta Kream' will arrive on May 14 via Nonesuch Records and feature 11 Mississippi hill country blues staples that inspired Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others. The pair recorded the LP at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, where they were accompanied by Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton, longtime musicians from bands of legendary blues acts. Auerbach sai...

Delta Kream, a Mississippi hill country blues covers compilation.  “We made this record to honor the Mississippi hill country blues tradition that influenced us starting out,” says frontman Dan Auerbach. “These songs are still as important to us today as they were the first day [drummer] Pat [ Carney] and I started playing together and picked up our instruments.” Delta Kream will be released May 14. You can download the “Crawling Kingsnake” cover now via digital outlets. The Black Keys’ most recent original album is 2019’s “Let’s Rock”.

It's now been 20 years since Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed one of the biggest rock acts of the 21st century — The Black Keys — and 10 since they moved their band from Akron, Ohio to Nashville.  Next month, the duo goes all the way back to their beginnings with their 10th studio album, "Delta Kream," arriving May 14. The 11-song collection is a tribute to the Mississippi hill country blues that informed the band's first steps, with covers of standards by Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and others. Their debut album, "The Big Come Up," opened with songs by Burnside and Kimbrough...