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Principally recorded at Studio 45, Akron, Ohio. The Black Keys: Dan Auerbach (vocals, guitar); Patrick Carney (drums). 2nd Album Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Ohio's Black Keys specialize in a sort ... Full Descriptionof garage blues--abbreviated gasps of vocal hurt, feedback-y guitar and unhinged snares..."
Q (01/01/04, p.76) - Ranked #31 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "[A] sweaty, thrilling delight, with songs dipped in tar..."
Mojo (Publisher) (01/01/04, p.56) - Ranked #40 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003" - "Like Free jamming with Jon Spencer, this is a gnarled, righteous triumph." Hide Description Black Keys Thickfreakness Songs Thickfreakness Music Review Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)  Grab a brew dog, set down on a crate, and get ready GROOVE
If you like the White Stripes, but wish they'd be a bit less artsy and a little more fartsy, grab this album. The Black Keys are on the more "low brow" side of the bluespunk coin, combining a bayou blues sound with thick, soulful vocals. "Have Love, Will Travel" is one of the best songs I've heard this year...it's on my latest mix CD next to George Bensen's "Goodnight" and The White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button." Still, there's only so far you can go in a combo, and as my friend at the Conservatory points out, the drummer can't keep a beat. I feel this makes things more souful. You might just get annoyed.
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ok I am biased I will admit it. I found the Black keys about 3 years ago on Satelite Radio and my life has never been the same since. This is thier 2nd CD offering, and I've got to say it just rocks. Simple, heavy rock and blues. Kinda like the White Stripes only not so Alternative. I've recently figured out why I like them so much. If I had the ability to play music, this is the music I would play. I've been to thier shows as well, and the only better than thier Cd's are seeing them live. So powerful. Just plain awesome.
Submitted by Pete (Forest Hill, MD)
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Their spontaneousness doesn't always serve the music
Only when the songs are strong enough they're able to convince and be exciting, but their spontaneousness doesn't always serve the music and sometimes seems to be an excuse for their shortcomings.
Submitted by andzwe (Meppel, The Netherlands)
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Fat guitar sound and the songs vary in style keeping you interested. Good party music.
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On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a drum-and-guitar blues duo seemed like the last thing the world needed in 2002. Fortunately, the guys revisiting the tried and true were guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney a.k.a. the Black Keys. With the former's blown-cone distortion and slinky riffs, and the latter's positively Bonham-esque way of inhabiting each change with a loose power, they smacked judgment out of one's brain before anyone could call it cliche. Taking ...
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After working his way through loss and chaos on the brilliant TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (recorded in 1973, but not released until 1975), Neil Young deftly exorcised any lingering demons with 1974's ON THE BEACH. The album opens with the saunter of the aptly titled "Walk On," followed by the utterly gorgeous, Wurlitzer-tinged "See the ...
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Though the Black Keys resemble post-punk garage revivalists like the White Stripes, and are likely to raise an eyebrow among old-school blues purists, the duo packs a serious blues punch. The minimal sound of RUBBER FACTORY moves on the rickety skeleton of Dan Auerbach's fuzzed-out guitar and Patrick Carney's no-frills drumming, and stays true to the raw, electric blues for which the Fat Possum label (the Black Keys' home) is rightfully famous.
RUBBER FACTORY bears the ghosts of Fat Possum artists like Junior Kimbrough and CeDell Davis, and through them, naturally, electric pioneers like Muddy Waters. The Keys mine ...
| | Black Keys Chulahoma CD (2006) Digipak
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This seven-track EP is the Akron, Ohio, blues-rock duo's swan song for esteemed blues label Fat Possum, and, fittingly, it's comprised entirely of songs originally written and ...
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For their farewell to the Fat Possum label, Black Keys released the six-track EP CHULAHOMA, a tribute to the late Mississippi hill-country bluesman Junior Kimbrough. While previous Keys albums made clear the Akron, Ohio, guitar-drums duo's genuine devotion to the blues, none seemed to come from the soul quite like the brief tribute to their mentor. 2006's MAGIC POTION, however, speaks from a similar place.
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In the fall of 2006, with the demise of his noise/punk band in the recent past, Joe Frankland began to look for a new band. Growing frustrated with the lack of creative musicians in his rural Northeast Ohio town, he decided to begin a solo project. Having no experience with any instrument other than bass guitar, he began to collect various instruments and learn how to play them. Frankland created a zombified and cannibalistic caricature of himself, based loosely on his frustrations with the modern world and American culture and his love for history and the American West. He called this character Slackeye Slim and began to write and record a series of songs.Less than a year after Joe Frankland began working on the first songs he had ever written as a solo artist, Slackeye Slim began to gain enough of a following to offer support for national acts, such as Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Those Poor Bastards, The .357 String Band, and Graham Lindsey.On Christmas Day of 2007, Slackeye Slim’s first album, Texas Whore Pleaser was released. Completely self-produced and self-released, Slackeye Slim’s debut features twelve tracks and guest vocals by Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards.In spring of 2008, Joe Frankland and his brother, Eric Frankland, packed their things and headed west to Anaconda, Montana. ...
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