Thickfreakness

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Thickfreakness
Studio album by The Black Keys
Released	April 8, 2003
Recorded	December 2002
Genre	Blues-rock
Length	39:01
Label	Fat Possum Records
Producer(s)	Patrick Carney
Professional reviews
Allmusic.com
The Black Keys chronology
The Big Come Up (2002)	Thickfreakness (2003)	The Moan (2004)

Thickfreakness is the second album by blues-rock duo, The Black Keys. It continues the Black Keys' tradition of raw, heavily blues-influenced indie rock. Although the debut album, The Big Come Up was tremendously successful for an indie band, Thickfreakness only increased the band's notoriety and fame; lending songs such as "Set You Free" which won the pair some mainstream success as being featured in the soundtrack of the 2003 movie, School of Rock. The album was recorded mostly in its entirety in 14 hours in Carney's basement on an early 80's Tascam 388 8-track recorder.

The song "Midnight In Her Eyes" is one of the few Black Keys songs that used a bass guitar. Auerbach dubbed a bassline by playing a Guild SG-style bass through a guitar amp into the song [1].

[edit] Track listing

1. "Thickfreakness" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:48
2. "Hard Row" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:15
3. "Set You Free" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:46
4. "Midnight In Her Eyes" (Auerbach, Carney) – 4:02
5. "Have Love, Will Travel" (Berry) – 3:04
6. "Hurt Like Mine" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:27
7. "Everywhere I Go" - (Kimbrough) – 5:40
8. "No Trust" - (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:37
9. "If You See Me" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:52
10. "Hold Me In Your Arms" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:19
11. "I Cry Alone" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:47

Japanese bonus track

1. "Evil (live)" (Auerbach, Carney) – 9:50

[edit] Miscellanea

• Thickfreakness (song and album) is known in Japan as Inazuma Rockin' Blues, with "inazuma" meaning "flash of lightning".