{"id":2239,"date":"2019-12-03T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:42:47","slug":"arachnophonia-the-black-keys-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2019\/12\/arachnophonia-the-black-keys-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: The Black Keys “Brothers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student worker Abby (class of 2021) and features The Black Keys’ 2010 album Brothers<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Abby!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Black Keys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brothers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Black Keys<\/a> have always been one of those bands where I couldn\u2019t name a single one of their songs off the top of my head, yet I know all the words to nearly every one I hear. Looking back, they very well could\u2019ve been considered my favorite band for how often I listened to their music and how much I liked it.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say exactly why I never committed titles to memory; it certainly wasn\u2019t because they were forgettable songs. Rather, I think it was the sheer fact that, at the height of their popularity, their music was so genre-defining and omnipresent that I only needed to hum the melody or say a few lines from the chorus, and anyone would know what song I was referring to. Take the song \u201cTighten Up\u201d<\/a> for instance. If you don\u2019t recognize it from the title, listen to the first few bars of the track and wait for the instant hit of nostalgia.<\/p>\n

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The group consists of two friends from Akron, Ohio: Dan Auerbach<\/a> on guitar and vocals and Patrick Carney<\/a> on drums. They started the band in 2001, and like all good grassroots garage bands, dropped out of college to pursue their bluesy-rock sound and slowly built an underground fan base through extensive touring, frequent album releases, and music festival appearances until their commercial breakthrough in 2010. This album, Brothers<\/a><\/em>, catapulted them from garage indie band to one of the most popular and famous bands in their genre and winning them three Grammy Awards in the process.<\/p>\n

For me, they defined a pivotal era in my music history. Being a child who grew up on her dad\u2019s CD collection of alternative rock albums from the 70s and 80s, The Black Keys<\/a> were one of the first bands that I discovered all on my own and shaped what I would listen to from then on. They drove me to find other music like theirs: the type of music that couldn\u2019t have been written at any other time, yet still feels timeless.<\/p>\n

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