Dan auerbach guitar and vocals patrick carney drums.
Black keys rubber factory review.
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They both hail from the midwest they both work a similar garage blues ground and both have color coded names.
Dan auerbach guitar vocals and patrick carney drums return in full force for their 2004 lp rubber factory.
Armed only with carney s drum kit and auerbach s fuzzed out guitar and scratchy howl of a voice the black keys have turned in a baker s dozen of sludgy in a good way funky primordial blues.
After eating nothing but strange foreign dishes and crazy tastes your friends suggested its refreshing to just get a huge steak.
Allmusic review by stephen thomas erlewine it s easy to think of the black keys as the flip side of the white stripes.
The black keys earlier work is noted for being recorded and produced entirely in drummer patrick carney s basement.
Rubber factory is the black keys third full length album after thickfreakness.
My personal faves are act nice and gentle a perfect honly tonk jam.
Comparisons to the white stripes be damned these boys take blues grit and make it their own.
The black keys are a duo from northeast ohio and are simply a modern day exponent of blues rock bringing old ideas and motifs into modern alternative music.