Last August, after owning up to their pretty disastrous 2024, the Black Keys released their 13th studio album No Rain, No Flowers. Around the same time, behind the scenes, Dan Auerbach was also taking care of his late father after an esophageal cancer diagnosis. Patrick Carney decided the best way to help his bandmate and best friend through the grief was jam together and pore over their extensive record collections: "Sometimes I’d find a song and think, ‘This might be fun for Pat and me to play live,’” Auerbach says. So they did just that in the studio.
Less than a year after No Rain, No Flowers, the Black Keys have announced a covers album called Peaches!, arriving in May. Its lead single is out now, a rendition of George Thorogood & The Destroyers' 1977 song "You Got To Lose" (which itself was an Earl Hooker cover). This song, like all 10 tracks on Peaches!, were recorded live with no separation. It's also the first Black Keys album the band mixed themselves since their 2006 debut.
While "You Got To Lose" is not a Black Keys original, there is something refreshing about hearing them revert back to that unpolished bluesy mode. Check out the music video along with the Peaches! tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire"
02 "Stop Arguing Over Me"
03 "Who's Been Foolin' You"
04 "It's A Dream"
05 "Tomorrow Night"
06 "You Got To Lose"
07 "Tell Me You Love Me"
08 "She Does It Right"
09 "Fireman Ring The Bell"
10 "Nobody But You Baby"
Peaches! is out 5/1 via Easy Eye Sound/Warner.
