Thickfreakness
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| Thickfreakness | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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. The band's debut album, The Big Come Up had been tremendously successful for an indie band and Thickfreakness further increased their profile; songs such as "Set You Free" won the pair some mainstream success as being featured in the soundtrack of the 2003 movie, School of Rock. Most of the album was recorded 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
- "Thickfreakness" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:48
- "Hard Row" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:15
- "Set You Free" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:46
- "Midnight In Her Eyes" (Auerbach, Carney) – 4:02
- "Have Love, Will Travel" (Berry) – 3:04
- "Hurt Like Mine" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:27
- "Everywhere I Go" - (Kimbrough) – 5:40
- "No Trust" - (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:37
- "If You See Me" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:52
- "Hold Me In Your Arms" (Auerbach, Carney) – 3:19
- "I Cry Alone" (Auerbach, Carney) – 2:47
Japanese bonus track
- "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".
