Black Keys (latte pass)
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
This comes half a year late but was wondering what Strutters think of this Akron duo? Their album in 2010, "Brothers," was rather killer to me - garage meets soul meets funk (recorded in Muscle Shoals no less).
I know some folks around hear have been digging on the video for "Tighten Up" (not a cover of the obvious tune).
I know some folks around hear have been digging on the video for "Tighten Up" (not a cover of the obvious tune).
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Word. They've definitely evolved from the kind of tunes they were making at that time, though, back then and even more so earlier they were more of a fuzzy blues outfit.
Got my first exposure of them from my tour manager with "Rubber Factory." So imagine hearing that while driving late late summer nights through New Mexico and Arizona deserts. Kind of sealed the deal with me because that's how I digested it.
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JSBX 1991 = Any number of blues rock power trios circa 1971
Ha, no doubt. But then again, no one on Strut has mentioned 'em prior.
Same here. I'm really bad about keeping up with new music.
Weird - didn't show up in the search.
DOUBLE latte pass.
I found them about a year ago as well. The song "I'll be your man" was my first run in. Great sound out of that record.
I found them about a year ago as well. The song "I'll be your man" was my first run in. Great sound out of that record.
that makes zero sense to me. JSBX were a noisy, uptown, pseudo-avant band - these guys (from what I know of them) are pretty straight-forward blues rock, heavy on the riffs and with soulful vocals, something you never heard from the whoops and howls of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
More on-topic, never owned an album by Black Keys but like just about everything I've heard from them and think "Tighten Up" may have been my favorite mainstream radio hit of the year, right up there with Broken Bells.
I HATED Blakroc though...it was awful.
Thanks to SoI for taking care of that so I don't have to. Don't see the comparison at all.
Love the band, have for years... Can't see enough threads about them. We're all in a better world if this is one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.
Saw them last summer. Good time, but they definitely seemed to have less energy. Would highly recommend checking Heavy Trash if they come around. That was a way better show.
I definitely ride for Brothers and the Keep it Hid solo lp. Not really familiar with their older stuff.
if it's cheap, it might be worth a check. after seeing them at the height of their 90's booze/smack fueled best though, the recent shows just don't compare.
this is why i dig soulstrut. Never heard this before. Sounds good.