Dan Auerbach gets back in black at All Points West Festival
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Dan Auerbach gets back in black at All Points West Festival
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
A decade ago fans of aggressive unpolished blues music were in desperate need of a band like the Black Keys. When the Akron hio-based duo arrived in 2002 with its debut album “The Big Come Up” it provided a departure from the slicked-up watered-down sound that so often passes for authentic blues. Five albums and hundreds of concerts later the Keys — guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney — have managed to stir elements of classic rock and folk into the mix without straying from the bone-rattling recipe they began with. The Keys’ most recent studio album 2008’s “Attack and Release” found the duo experimenting with more instruments more sonic effects and even a producer (the studio master and Gnarls Barkley member Danger Mouse). Not long after Carney and Auerbach split temporarily to work on solo projects with the latter’s “Keep It Hid” winning critical plaudits this spring.
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Head out with Delta Highway Pepper Drive
Tallahassee.com
today at Bradfordville Blues Club 7152 Moses Lane. The band’s debut disc “The Devil Had a Woman” was nominated for a 2009 Blues Music Award. The last time Delta Highway was in town a big ol’ dance riot broke out. Students and blues organization members pay $12. Call 906-0766 or visit.
nset Blues Festival on Saturday
SouthCoastToday.com
The band is fronted by Jo Lily of Boston favorites Duke & the Drivers. They will be followed by Ricky “King” Russell & the Cadillac Horns complete with a full compliment of horn players known for delivering some of the richest blues heard throughout New England. The event will be capped by Sicilia whose 2007 debut album “Allow Me To Confess” earned a nomination for “Best New Artist Debut” from the Blues Foundation 2008 Blues Music Awards. She is currently touring in support of her latest release “Hey Sugar.
Pop Listings
New York Times
Kid Rock from Detroit has been inching further and further away from his rap-rock beginnings and is indulging a nascent interest in country and blues music. The current incarnation of the celebrated Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd bears little resemblance to the band that spawned “Freebird” but should still inspire plenty of lighter waving. Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Wantagh N.
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