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- Friday,November 5,2021nothing
The Black Keys' special tenth anniversary edition of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino is out now on Nonesuch Records. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is available in a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs—a remastered version of the original album; a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording; a BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012; a 2011 Electro-Vox session; an extensive photo book; a limited-edition poster and lithograph; and a “new car scent” air freshener—digitally, and in a three-LP edition, which includes the remastered album and the live recording. A four-CD version of the Super Deluxe is due December 3. The Black Keys are hosting a watch party for the BBC session through Sunday.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News - Friday,October 15,2021nothing
The Black Keys have shared a previously unreleased recording of their platinum-selling single "Gold on the Ceiling," from a 2012 BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session. It's part of the special tenth anniversary edition of the album El Camino, due November 5 on Nonesuch Records. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is available in several formats, including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs—with a remastered version of the original album; a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording; the BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012; a 2011 Electro-Vox session; an extensive photo book; a limited-edition poster and lithograph; and a “new car scent” air freshener—or four CDs minus the poster and air freshener. A three-LP edition, which include the remastered album and the live recording, will also be available. You can watch an unboxing video of the five-LP Super Deluxe version here.
Journal Topics: Artist News - Thursday,September 16,2021nothing
The Black Keys will release a special tenth anniversary edition of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino via Nonesuch Records on November 5. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be available in several formats including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs—with a remastered version of the original album, a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording, a 2012 BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session, a 2011 Electro-Vox session, an extensive photo book, a limited-edition poster and lithograph, and a “new car scent” air freshener—or four CDs minus the poster and air freshener. A three-LP edition, which include the remastered album and the live recording, will also be available, as well as a special fan club version of the three-LP set. You can watch a new trailer, with Derrick T. Tuggle, here.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News - Thursday,August 12,2021nothing
The Black Keys have released the official music video for "Poor Boy a Long Way From Home," an R.L. Burnside tune they perform on their new album, Delta Kream. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. The video was directed by Ryan Nadzam and filmed in Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Video - Thursday,July 29,2021nothing
The Black Keys have released the official music video for "Stay All Night," one of several Junior Kimbrough tunes they perform on their new album, Delta Kream. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside. The video was directed by Ryan Nadzam and filmed in Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Video - Wednesday,July 21,2021nothing
The Black Keys have announced their World Tour of America: three intimate shows in Athens, GA, St. Petersburg, FL, and Oxford, MS, this September, surrounding their performance at Pilgrimage Fest in Tennessee. The band will partner with the Save The Music Foundation to support elementary and middle school music programs in Mississippi. Fans can participate in a sweepstakes to win a once-in-a-lifetime experience with the band, with 100% of the proceeds going towards music education grants in seven schools across Mississippi.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On Tour, Video - Friday,July 9,2021nothing
The Black Keys perform "Poor Boy a Long Way From Home," an R.L. Burnside tune from their new album, Delta Kream, live from Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America, in a new video. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Video - Monday,June 21,2021nothing
The Black Keys have released a new video of the band performing "Going Down South," from their new album, Delta Kream, live from Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville this past spring. Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Video - Wednesday,June 2,2021nothing
"When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney first teamed up two decades ago, it was their love of the Mississippi blues that brought them together," says CBS This Morning's Anthony Mason, who spoke with The Black Keys on the show. "Their latest album, Delta Kream ... is a tribute to those blues artists that they have long studied. Auerbach and Carney say The Black Keys would not exist without them." You can watch their conversation here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, Video - Friday,May 28,2021nothing
The Black Keys are on NPR's World Cafe to discuss their new album, Delta Kream, and share some tracks from it. "One of the really fun things about The Black Keys is that they themselves are huge music fans," says host Raina Douris. "Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney get excited talking about the artists who've influenced them, and today you will hear that excitement as we dive into the new Black Keys album, Delta Kream." You can hear their conversation here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio - Wednesday,May 26,2021nothing
The Black Keys' tenth studio album, Delta Kream, has debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, their fifth album in a row to debut in the Top 10 in the US. The album, which features eleven Mississippi hill country blues songs by artists including R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, is No. 1 on the Mediabase Triple A Radio Charts. Delta Kream is the band’s fourth consecutive top 10 album in the UK, debuting at No. 5, as well as top 10 in countries throughout Europe. "Each song on the record puts the listener in the room with the band," writes Hanif Abdurraqib in a New York Times Magazine feature on the band, "watching smiles spread across their faces as the music they have studied and loved flickers into life through them, effortlessly.”
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News - Tuesday,May 18,2021nothing
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are on the latest episode of NPR's Here & Now, from WBUR in Boston. They talk with Peter O'Dowd about their new album, Delta Kream, which celebrates the band’s roots, featuring eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards they've loved since they were teenagers, including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others. You can hear their conversation here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio
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