Dan Auerbach, best known as the singer/songwriter/guitarist of The Black Keys, will be releasing a solo album called Keep It Hid on February 10, 2009 via Nonesuch Records. I guess he was cheating on his most recent album, Attack & Release; also writing songs that would become Keep It Hid. We can now add adulterer to the list of adjectives describing Dan Auerbach.
The backing band on the album is Hacienda (we showed them lots of love) and Auerback describes the sound as a mixture of music he listens to – psychedelia, soul music, country harmonies. Sounds like a recipe for greatness to me.
In February Auerbach will begin a national tour with performances in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC. Opening acts for the tour will include Those Darlins and Hacienda.
Here’s some more background on the upcoming release:
Keep It Hid was produced and engineered by Auerbach at his studio, Akron Analog, and features him playing a variety of instruments, including drums, guitar, percussion, and keyboards. Many of Auerbach’s friends and family play on the album, including his uncle James Quine, who contributes vocal harmony and electric guitar on the track “Street Walkin.” Other musicians include fellow Ohioans Jessica Lea Mayfield, who sings on the track “When the Night Comes,” and Bob Cesare, who plays drums on “Whispered Words,” a song originally written by Auerbach’s father. Of the recording process Auerbach states, “I wanted a live, organic sound. Nothing was too plotted or planned, just a lot of spontaneity.” The record was mixed by Auerbach’s good friend Mark Neill at Neill’s Soil of the South studio.
We’ve been all over Dan’s jock lately, but have shown no love for Keys drummer, Patrick Carney. Here’s an entertaining backstage interview from Lolla 2008. The interviewer asks several questions about working with Danger Mouse, who produced the band’s last album, Attack and Release.
The best exchange:
Interviewer: What’s it like working with him? What does he bring to a recording session that kind of blew you guys away?
Patrick: Chick-fil-A. That’s what he brought.
The second best exchange:
Interviewer: I thought the crowd at the show last night was just electric. They were so into it. I had the pleasure of introducing you and it was thundering.
Patrick: Right after you introduced us, we put some PCP in the fog machine. Seriously. Just a couple drops. Driblets. People flip out on that stuff. They love it.
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Every day, I come to HearYa, and, everyday, i’m rewarded w/ news like this.
So where’s the pre-release track? I wanna hear it here first!
You and me both! Nothing released yet. If we get something to share, we’ll post it asap.
Pat is the king of bone dry humor. Actually, they both seem pretty hilarious (“at least I died doing what I love– lip syncing”)
As for “adulterer” I beg to differ. He grew that scary female repelling beard just to make it easier to stay true to me– even thought it’s hopeless. I keep telling him we have to be “just friends”.
srsly– can’t wait to hear this! & The Keys better not disband for reals.