The Black Keys Celebrate Mississippi Hill Country Blues On Double LP!
Covering John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough & More!

The Black Keys' tenth studio album, Delta Kream, celebrates the band's roots, featuring eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards that they have loved since they were teenagers, before they were a band, including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior   Kimbrough, among others.Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney recorded Delta Kream at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville; they were joined by musicians Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton,   long-time members of the bands of blues legends including R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. The album takes its name from William Eggleston's iconic Mississippi photograph that is on its cover.

Dan Auerbach says of the album, "We made this record to honor the Mississippi hill country blues tradition that influenced us starting out. These songs are still as important to us today as they were the first day Pat and I started playing together and picked up our instruments. It was a very inspiring session with Pat and me along with Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton in a circle, playing these songs. It felt so natural."

Patrick Carney concurs, "The session was planned only days in advance and nothing was rehearsed. We recorded the entire album in about ten hours, over two afternoons, at the end of the 'Let's Rock' tour."

The music from northern Mississippi, which came to life in juke joints, has long left an imprint on the band's music, from their cover of R.L. Burnide's "Busted" and Junior Kimbrough's "Do The Romp" on their debut album, The Big Come Up; to their subsequent   signing to Fat Possum Records, home to many of their musical heroes; and to their EP of Junior Kimbrough covers, Chulahoma.

In addition to paying homage to these Mississippi blues legends with Delta Kream, The Black Keys are working with VisitMississippi, the state's tourism organization, to sponsor new individual markers for R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough on the Mississippi   Blues Trail, which tell the stories of the state's blues artists both renowned and obscure through words and images. (Both musicians are currently acknowledged on a group marker in Holly Springs entitled "Hill Country Blues.") The new markers will be   erected in the proposed locations of Holly Springs and Chulahoma, MS, places closely associated with Burnside and Kimbrough - a fitting tribute to these architects of Hill Country Blues and further recognition of their enduring contributions to American   music.

Formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001, The Black Keys, who have been called "rock royalty" by the Associated Press and "one of the best rock 'n' roll bands on the planet" by Uncut, are guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. Cutting their teeth   playing small clubs, the band have gone on to sell out arena tours and have released nine previous studio albums: their debut The Big Come Up (2002), followed by Thickfreakness (2003) and Rubber Factory (2004), along with their releases on Nonesuch   Records, Magic Potion (2006), Attack & Release (2008), Brothers (2010), El Camino (2011), Turn Blue (2014) and, most recently, "Let's Rock" (2019), plus and a tenth anniversary edition of Brothers (2020). The band has won six Grammy Awards and a BRIT   and headlined festivals in North America, South America, Mexico, Australia and Europe.

  Laconic and acidly textured, Delta Kream is a perfect balance of the Black Keys' lo-fi swagger and keen ear for the Mississippi blues traditions that inspired it.       -Matt Collar, AllMusic      Features       Double LP Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville, TN Made in Germany     Selections Side A:       Crawling Kingsnake (John Lee Hooker / Bernard Besman)     Louise (Fred McDowell)     Poor Boy A Long Way From Home (Robert Lee Burnside) Side B:     Stay All Night (David Kimbrough, Jr.)     Going Down South (Robert Lee Burnside)     Coal Black Mattie (Ranie Burnette) Side C:     Do The Romp (David Kimbrough, Jr.)     Sad Days, Lonely Nights (David Kimbrough, Jr.) Side D:     Walk With Me (David Kimbrough, Jr.)     Mellow Peaches (Joseph Lee Williams)     Come On And Go With Me (David Kimbrough, Jr.)