Albums
Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough - EP
2006
Genre: Blues-Rock
Release Date: 2006
By Sean Fennessey
Reviewed June 19, 2006
Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney say goodbye to their longtime home, blues staple Fat Possum, with a salute to deceased former labelmate Junior Kimbrough.
The Black Keys are now well beyond obvious blues-rock duo comparisons, having carved out three of the best head-in-the-past, riffs-in-the-future albums of the past decade. Before ditching the only home they'd known, blues staple Fat Possum, for the NPRarified air of Nonesuch, Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney threw together this fitting farewell, saluting deceased labelmate Junior Kimbrough. In the process, they avoid the hammy recreations that cover albums often bring: This is no or , but rather an acknowledgement of a hero and a simple cap-tip.