Black Keys, The - The Big Come Up [LP] (180 Gram)

The Big Come Up is the debut album by the American rock duo The Black Keys, released in 2002. The blues-rock duo includes singer and guitarist, Dan Auerbach, and drummer, Patrick Carney. The album was created in Akron, Ohio in their basement. Carney and Auerbach recorded the album using two microphones in Carney's basement. They recorded their album on an 8-track tape recorder. The cheap equipment gave the album a grainy, lo-fi sound, almost as if it had been recorded in the 1960s. This made their album sound unprofessional, but in turn, gave them a sense of authenticity that was largely based on other popular rock artists, such as The White Stripes. The record contained thirteen songs. Eight of them were their own original tracks, and five were cover songs. These cover songs included covers of Muddy Waters, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside.