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The Big Come Up

The Black Keys

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It’s incredible that a couple of young guys operating out of a basement in Ohio could generate this much sound and fury. On their first album, The Black Keys channel the groove-heavy juke-joint blues of the Mississippi hill country. Hardcore blues fans who don’t slavishly imitate, the Keys go for raw feeling over strict technical execution. Though they're a duo, they're not minimalists. The heavy bass in the guitar tone fills up space as Dan Auerbach’s dirty riffs squall from cheap amps on the verge of overload, his soulful growl making him sound twice his age. Patrick Carney is the engine, supplying hard-stomping, funky drumming to complement the filthy hooks. The unexpected hip-hop touches on “Breaks” and “240 Years Before Your Time,” the garage-rock cover of The Beatles’ “She Said, She Said,” and the R&B burners “Them Eyes” and “Yearnin’” offer variety without straying far from their roots. On this electrifying debut, The Black Keys put their gritty stamp on the blues and in the process stand apart from their peers.

Customer Reviews

Finally real music again...

The kids are in full time school and it's time to start listening to music again. A buddy lent me this CD and I have since acquired nearly everything the Black Keys have put out. Amazing, authentic, fantastic music. Such a refreshing departure from mainstream radio.

dead space

I am a fan of The Black Keys and I very much like most of this record. It's raw and not nearly as polished as their more recent material. It reminds me of the old blues-rock albums of the late 60's & early 70's era; e.g. Humble Pie, Robin Trower, Ten Years After, etc. The only negative on this record is the waste of time 240 Years before Your Time is. Don't be fooled, as I was, by the 23:20 time attached to this piece. I envisioned an amazing lengthy blues jam and what I got is 20 minutes of dead space in between a short and dumb intro and a short and dumb outro. Very disappointing.

Love it

I am sad to say that I have only been listening to these guys for a year. I really liked the theme to HBO's Hung. I searched "I'll be your man" and found that it was not performed by an old bluesman from the 60/70's but two guys from Ohio this decade. I found a goldmine of great music. This is not my favorite album of theirs but I highly recommend you buy them all. I only wish I had heard of them earlier. Also nice to see independent artists (no label) who have paid their dues get some commercial success.

Biography

Formed: 2001 in Akron, OH

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

It’s too facile to call the Black Keys counterparts of the White Stripes: they share several surface similarities — their names are color-coded, they hail from the Midwest, they’re guitar-and-drum blues-rock duos — but the Black Keys are their own distinct thing, a tougher, rougher rock band with a purist streak that never surfaces in the Stripes. But that’s not to say that the Black Keys are blues traditionalists: even on their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up, they covered the Beatles’ psychedelic...
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