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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 with him since. Neither band member grew up in the South — they are natives of Akron, Ohio — ...

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 Up,” they began the album by tipping their hat to two legendary Mississippi bluesmen. Opener “B...

This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. When he was a teenager, finding hill country blues changed The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney's life - it was a foundation of the band. Things have now come full circle - they've 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 Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, where they were joined by musicians Kenny Brown and Eric ...

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 songs by RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and John Lee Hooker. Still, online the comments sat somewher...

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 attempt to get back where they once belonged. In the case of the Black Keys, that spiritual home lies i...