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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...

Kentucky Derby gives Louisville's hospitality industry its best weekend in over a year Share Updated: 6:48 PM EDT May 4, 2021 Share Updated: 6:48 PM EDT May 4, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript GOING. KENTUCKY DERBY 147 BROUGHT AN ESTIMATED ECONOMIC IMPACT OF 60 MILLION DOLLARS TO LOUISVILLE. WELL ABOVE THE EXPECTED 35 MILLION DOLLARS PREDICTED. SO TO PUT THAT IN SOME PERSPECTIVE OUR NEXT LARGEST ECONOMIC DRIVER IS 19.5 MILLION AND THAT IS THE GIE PLUS EXPO EVENT THAT WILL HOST IN THE FALL LOUISVILLE. TOURISM IS NOW LOOKING TO BUILD ON THAT MOMENTUM AS IT CONTI...

While difficult, the pandemic was an unexpected blessing for North Carolina musician Matt Heckler. With the unexpected time and rest, he was able to record his latest album, Blood, Water, Coal, which debuted at number three on the Bluegrass Billboard chart. But what he plays isn't exactly what you would call bluegrass. Ask anyone around here if I'm playing Appalachian old style, they'll say no. I have a very weird style. This is No Cover, a production of KOSU and Oklahoma State University and hosted by Matthew Viriyapah. Listen above to hear Matt Heckler talk about his style of folk music wh...

Program #242 (April 30 at 8:00pm and May 1 at 3:00pm) Nehemiah Curtis “Skip” James possessed one of the most hauntingly distinctive styles in the blues, and, according to some who knew him, one of the most disturbed and complex personalities as well. His vocals, guitar work, and song constructions raise the blues to a level of high art and rare beauty, yet his subject matter and presentation were of such a heavy, cheerless nature that Mississippi bluesman Johnnie Temple, a contemporary of Skip’s, told an interviewer that James’ music was so sad that people would pay him not to perform...

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean learns how to make the official drink of the Kentucky Oaks on ‘Fox & Friends First.’ Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has welcomed the return of the Kentucky Derby, which he says will provide a "much-needed boost" to a lagging local economy after the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. The Kentucky Derby is a hallmark event for Louisville, usually bringing in an estimated $400 million to local businesses in the form of tourism. Business owners missed out on that revenue last year as the event occurred without fans due to safety ...