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Native and non-Native community members came together for a special event on a national day of remembrance for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives.
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When our neighbors are in need of food, organizations and volunteers across Northern Minnesota step up. Food shelves, community meals and soup kitchens aim to the fill the gaps.
For the duo’s 18th album, Peaches! The Black Keys find their way back to the raw blues sound that first defined them.
The album features reinterpretations of songs by artists like Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, and Wilko Johnson, reconnecting the band with some of their deep musical influences.
Recorded live with minimal overdubs, the sessions brought together Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach alongside slide guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and multi-instrumentalist Jimbo Mathus. Brown and Deaton both are deeply embedded in the blues genre, sharing long histories with Kimbrough and Burnside as players and mentors.
The album came out of informal sessions Carney started as a way to give Auerbach a creative refuge while his father was terminally ill. Though The Black Keys have often leaned into a heavier rock with more production over the years, Peaches! ultimately brings the band back to where they began, with the blues. -KH
The album features reinterpretations of songs by artists like Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, and Wilko Johnson, reconnecting the band with some of their deep musical influences.
Recorded live with minimal overdubs, the sessions brought together Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach alongside slide guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and multi-instrumentalist Jimbo Mathus. Brown and Deaton both are deeply embedded in the blues genre, sharing long histories with Kimbrough and Burnside as players and mentors.
The album came out of informal sessions Carney started as a way to give Auerbach a creative refuge while his father was terminally ill. Though The Black Keys have often leaned into a heavier rock with more production over the years, Peaches! ultimately brings the band back to where they began, with the blues. -KH
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