Track Listing

1. Busted
2. Do The Rump
3. I'll Be Your Man
4. Countdown
5. Breaks
6. Run Me Down
7. Leavin' Trunk
8. Heavy Soul
9. She Said She Said
10. Them Eyes
11. Yearnin'
12. Brooklyn Bound
13. 240 Years Before Your Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3408 in Music
• Released on: 2008-12-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a drum-and-guitar blues duo seemed like the last thing the world needed in 2002. Fortunately, the guys revisiting the tried and true were guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney a.k.a. the Black Keys. With the former's blown-cone distortion and slinky riffs, and the latter's positively Bonham-esque way of inhabiting each change with a loose power, they smackedjudgment out of one's brain before anyone could call it cliche. Taking cues from Fat Possum-centric blues legends like Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside (both covered here on thefirst two tracks) and garage fetishists like Billy Childishand Jack White alike, the Akron duo arrived with swagger onthese 13 tracks. Tackling covers traditional (like Sleepy John Estes's "Leavin' Trunk") and non (the Beatles's "She Said, She Said") and their own workouts (the aptly titled "Heavy Soul"), THE BIG COME UP wins on the strength of Auerbach'sravagedly expressive vocals--which match the egdes in his guitar tone crag for crag.

Customer Reviews

Big come up - come
My days, what an album. Comparisons with the white stripes are somewhat unfair. This band is exceptional. Blues Rock with obvious Hendrix influences, it is great to hear a band come up with quality rock blues in this day and age. The fact they are a two piece band makes them all the more exciting. I bought the album on the back of hearing one song and discovered all 14 are brilliant. The guitaring speaks for itself, quality riffs and rip roaring solos.

It would be wrong to pick out any sungle tunes. The album certainly doesn't have any dissapointments. It starts strong and continues, never dipping

At worst a great introduction to rock blues, at best a testament to wonderful music. The best new album i have bought since Californication (That is no reflection on the style of music tho) Keep it coming boys.

It's loud, it's dirty...it's the blues. Hurrah!
Not only have The White Stripes put out a succession of brilliant and inventive albums, but they have also inadvertently helped along the way a number of likeminded garage bands to stumble out of their basements, clutching a rickety old guitar in hand and onto the front pages of music magazines. The Soledad Brothers, The Von Bondies, The Datsuns, The Beatings, The Kills (and so on...) are now gaining both exposure and sales at a time when rock music seemed to be getting increasingly more uninspiring. This whole "movement" (and I use that word loosely) couldn't have happened soon enough.

The Black Keys have so far not been included in any "ones to watch" polls for 2003, but this is probably down to a distribution issue with their label than to their talent - because rest assured, this is an awesome little record and anyone enjoying The White Stripes, or the regular offerings from the Fat Possum record label, should definitely make an effort to order this album or hunt it down.

The premise is simple: a basic guitar and drums duo (hmmm, sound familiar?) who shun glossy production values for the kind of earthy, primal noise that makes the whole album sound like it was recorded in a wooden shed. On a four track…probably in the rain! Yes, primitive it may be, but as The Stripes have proved, it can also be extremely thrilling. Adopting this stripped down approach (ie, dropping the bass guitar) can often prove to be a problem, because the “bottom end” is abscent, but Dan and Patrick are both very impressive musicians and as “Busted” launches out of the speakers in all it’s RL-Burnside-lick-nicking glory you don’t even notice. Top marks especially must go to Dan for possessing one almighty gutsy, earthy voice that would a T-Model Ford fan weep with joy – he’s in a class of his own.

Highlights here include the aforementioned “Busted”, the swaggering “Heavy Soul” (complete with an almighty mess of a guitar solo!), the rattling “Do The Rump” and inspired cover of “She Said, She Said”. The whole album really swaggers, stomps and most importantly rocks and rolls – with the killer, and all important, blues vibe pierced right through its heart.

Yes, the rather inevitable Stripes comparisons will no doubt annoy them after a while, but these guys have easily made one fine blues album on their own merits, and it really is one of 2002’s best!

brilliant!
two guys,a four track and god knows what else.a day later a glorious guitar album that brings back all the blues guitarists youve ever heard of.a piece of pure talent.