The Black Keys – Chulahoma – VINYL LP

Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney say goodbye to their longtime home, blues staple Fat Possum, with a salute to deceased former labelmate Junior Kimbrough.

The Black Keys are now well beyond obvious blues-rock duo comparisons, having carved out three of the best head-in-the-past, riffs-in-the-future albums of the past decade. Before ditching the only home they’d known, blues staple Fat Possum, for the NPRarified air of Nonesuch, Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney threw together this fitting farewell, saluting deceased labelmate Junior Kimbrough. In the process, they avoid the hammy recreations that cover albums often bring: This is no Encomium or Radiodread, but rather an acknowledgement of a hero and a simple cap-tip.

A1 Keep Your Hands Off Her
A2 Have Mercy On Me
A3 Work Me
B1 Meet Me In The City
B2 Nobody But You
B3 My Mind Is Ramblin’
B4 Untitled (Junior’s Wife)