The news of Dusty Hill’s death, announced Wednesday by his bandmates in ZZ Top, deeply impacted everyone from fans to fellow musicians. Not surprisingly, that list includes Dan Auerbach. It’s easy to draw a straight line from ZZ Top to the Black Keys, especially from the rawness of the group’s …
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The Black Keys reconnect with the blues songs that informed their early years on the duo’s 10th studio album Delta Kream. Recorded in Nashville at the studio of Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, the record finds Auerbach and Keys drummer Patrick Carney paying homage to bluesmen like R.L. Burnside, Junior …
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In 1990, Tim O’Brien joined country star and CMA Female Vocalist award-winner Kathy Mattea on the romantic “Battle Hymn of Love,” which set vows of eternal commitment to a gentle acoustic bluegrass background. Now, nearly three decades later, O’Brien offers another sweet Valentine in “Amazing Love,” a song he penned …
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