It seems not, but it has been ten years since The Black Keys they will run with The way (Nonesuch Records, 2011), as one of the new bands called to revitalize the North American scene from within, that is, starting from its roots.
The duo formed by Dan Auerbach Y Patrick Carney They had launched the first ad with their previous work, the Brothers (Nonesuch Records, 2010), his already sixth work released a year. And it is that after more than a decade in the background, it seemed that the moment to become a majority phenomenon was just around the corner.
The story goes that, after an appearance on Saturday Night Live promoting Brothers, a snowstorm forced them to cancel some live dates. Instead of hibernating, they called their friend Danger Mouse and quickly began to shape the tracks that would compose The way, the band’s most accessible album so far. Songs like “Lonely boy”, “Gold on the ceiling” or “Little black submarines” catapulted the Ohio band. The result is well known, three Grammy awards, it was Double Platinum in the US and Platinum in the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Spain it reached the category of Gold Record.
For the 10th anniversary edition, the band has selected a few different versions of these tracks, and is accompanying it with interesting live takes recorded in 2011-2012. Noteworthy is the entire concert in Portland: 20 captures the energy of The Black Keys live. That beginning with the great “Howlin ‘For You” and moments like “Gold on the Ceiling”, “Little Black Submarines” or “Next Girl” explain how the phenomenon not only brought with it a good handful of round songs. The other two performances included in this 10th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition They take place in more intimate settings: a BBC recording and a session at the famous Electro-Vox studio in Hollywood. Both concerts show us the Keys acting on another level, with short and forceful versions of “Dean And You”, “Money Market” or their hit single “Lonely Boy” showing us that sweet moment in which they were able to advance through the right to generation companions like The White Stripes, to the chagrin of Jack White, who has always considered them a bad copy of his old project.
Just go back to these songs or listen to the fierce drums of Carney next to the guitars of Dan Auerbach hitting everywhere, to prostrate to that savagery of garage-blues-rock or whatever you want to call it.
Escucha The Black Keys – El Camino 10th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
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