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Daniel Quine Auerbach (/ ˈaʊərbɑːk /; born May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. [ 1 ] As a member of the group, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced twelve studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney.
The Black Keys are an American rock duo formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney ().The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2000s.
The Black Keys' twelfth studio album, Ohio Players—a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, Ohio, funk band of the same name—features several collaborations between band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with various friends and colleagues, like Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Beck, Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others.
Jan 27, 2023 · Dan Auerbach pulls Tomorrow’s Gift, a hard-to-find pressing of the Krautrock band’s 1970 self-titled debut album, out from a row of records and examines the cover art.He studies the groovy ...
- I Got Mine – from Attack & Release
- Ten Cent Pistol – from Brothers
- Little Black Submarines – from El Camino
- Tighten Up – from Brothers
- Lonely Boy – from El Camino
“This was always a fun one to play live. That’s just the sound of the basement – Pat and me in the basement where we used to play. The intro was probably influenced by some sort of James Brown thing. “But that riff, I don’t know where it came from, to be honest with you. It was a pretty simple little thing. I’m not sure if there was any one particu...
“That was at Muscle Shoals Sound [in Alabama]. It feels like that song could have been on the new record [Dropout Boogie]; it’s got a lot of improvisation in it. We were listening to lots of funk, including Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian funk guy. We did a lot of solos with the octaves like that, and we were definitely influenced by that on that rec...
“We wrote it with Danger Mouse [Brian Joseph Burton]. We started it on acoustic guitar, and it wasn’t until we got into the studio to record it that we decided to have that ending section, where all the drums and everything kick in. That was fun – getting to be able to do that, and have a song that had a journey to it.”
“We cut that in New York City and co-wrote it with Danger Mouse. He even started the verses, the stuff on the piano, just coming up with chord changes. They had a grand piano there in the studio. We put that one together fairly quickly, and we also used a drum loop of Pat playing. “We had him go in and he played until he got a loop that he really l...
“We cut it in Nashville, at [my studio], Easy Eye Sound. I’m playing my ’54 Strat that I bought when I was on tour one time. I’ve always loved playing it; it’s got all the original electronics. And I used it all over that record. That started with another pedal that I’d never used before – and haven’t used since! [It’s] that little [pitch-shifting]...
Learn about Dan Auerbach, the lead singer and guitarist of The Black Keys, and his solo and production work. Explore his lyrics, discography, influences, and collaborations on Genius.
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Listen to songs and albums by Dan Auerbach, the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys and a Grammy-winning producer. Explore his solo projects, the Arcs and Easy Eye Sound, and watch his music videos.
