Music: EP TCB - Polk Salad Annie
The King doin' his thing. Singin' Tony Joe White's Polk Salad Annie. Check the dance moves. Love it when he gets the cheat sheet. Or maybe it's a groupie's digits? ELVIS LIVES.
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Music: The Black Keys
A lot of ya'll already know about The Black Keys. We just think the whole world should. Here's their video for "Just Got To Be." And here's their story:
Akron, Ohio, July 2002: Two young men, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, Akron natives and college dropouts the both of them, are working for a local property owner, the type of guy who owns a variety of low-rent apartment buildings around town in various states of semi-repair and full-blown disrepair. In short, the boys mow lawns for a slumlord. Between them, they've got a truck, two lawnmowers and a weed-whacker and, like everybody else, a hustle and a dream: in addition to working together, the guys play in a duo called The Black Keys (named in honor of a schizophrenic Akron artist, who called the boys "black keys", his phrase for people who weren't quite right). Though they've known each other since they were kids, they've only been playing together as a unit for a year. They'd drifted apart in high school ("Most of Dan's friends wanted to beat me up and I wanted to provoke most of his friends to want to beat me up," Patrick says), but each was deeply involved in music: Patrick's tastes leaned toward Devo, noise rock, and hip-hop, while Dan, who had grown up playing old folk songs at family reunions, gravitated towards electric Mississippi blues. Continue Reading... Continue Reading...
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Magic Potion - The Black Keys (amazon)
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