The Black Keys new album

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The Black Keys have a new album out, called Let’s Rock
Guitar rules on this one.  No keys this time, white or black.  The title of the record is everything.  Rock, as in garage rock, heavy rock, old-school rock. Melodic, entrancing.  An ancient air guitarist, I was immediately on the fret board, playing hard as those currents of electric rhythmic wizardry  resonated deliciously, the power  chords dancing.  As the Keys start their upcoming tour this fall, I suspect there will be two options at a show: move your body or leave.  Here’s something from the department of ignorance or forgetfulness:  I actually thought that the Black Keys were two guitarists!  No, it’s Patrick Carney on drums and Dan Auerbach on guitar, wow. After touring extensively behind their previous work, including their incredible albums Brothers and El Camino, they apparently needed a break from each other. Now, they’re out with their first studio album since the release of Turn Blue in 2014.  Experiencing this album brought back memories of my youth, of moments recalled with awe, as the music washed over and into me .  My soul was being “psychedelicized”, as the Chambers Brothers put it in 1968.  To wit:   Peter Green with “Oh, Well”,  Jimmy Page with “Stairway to Heaven” (solo starts at 5:30), Terry Kath with Chicago Transit Authority’s version of “I’m a Man”.  So many others, something was in the air.  These three I singled out are not on top of any list, but my first hearing of each of them produced something like ecstasy. And here I am 50 years on, still playing.
New Orleans, July 13 9 am. Floodgates at Canal closed, we're ready



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